Construction Technician-Line Worker

17 hours ago


Dayton, Ohio, United States Windstream Communications Full time
About the Role:

The Construction Technician-Line Worker is responsible for installing, repairing, and maintaining poles, cables, and conduits. This includes installing aerial and buried cables with associated hardware, running fiber optic, copper, and other necessary cables, and maintaining the safety of the crew. The role also involves maintaining material inventory, performing DOT vehicle inspections, operating heavy machinery, and other duties as assigned.

This position requires the ability to work in all weather conditions, year-round, and to work on weekends, holidays, standby, and unscheduled hours. Travel is required and may be over 50% of the year depending on business needs. This is a safety-sensitive position.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Install, repair, and maintain poles, cables, and conduits.
  • Install aerial cables (fiber and copper) and set up service for customers.
  • Measure signal strength at utility poles using electronic test equipment.
  • Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
  • Access specific areas to string lines or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances.
  • String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches and pull lines to proper tension using jacks, hoists, and other equipment as necessary.
  • Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
  • Lay underground cable directly in trenches or string it through conduits running through trenches/manholes as requested and required.
  • Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.
  • Use a variety of construction equipment to complete installations, such as digger derricks, bucket trucks, back hoes, trenchers, or cable plows.
  • Dig trenches for underground wires or cables.
  • Understand staking sheets and blueprints.
  • Perform work in accordance with industry standards, including RUS standards, and maintain the scope of work on the project.
  • Prepare engineering field notes and interpret buried underground and aerial telecom facilities in records, on maps, and in the field with clarity and detail.
  • Participate in engineering, permit, and construction processes as required.
  • Perform routine maintenance, recognize and repair route issues, and fill and tamp holes using cement, earth, and tamping devices.
  • Splice copper and fiber cables and tasks associated with splicing.
Requirements:
  • Pole climbing certification.
  • Ability to lift/push/pull up to 75 pounds.
  • Ability to work in all weather conditions, year-round.
  • Ability to work in confined spaces and at heights.
  • Ability to work an on-call schedule rotation as well as days/nights/overnights/weekends/holidays/overtime, as needed.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Minimum qualifications to obtain a CDL.
  • Ability to pass DOT certification.
  • Ability to travel.
  • Exceptional time-management and attention to detail to complete all paperwork accurately and on-time.
Desired Qualifications:
  • 5 or more years of experience.
  • OSHA 10 Hour Safety Course and Buck Squeeze (Pole Climbing Certifications).
  • Proficient at operating various construction equipment.
  • 1 year of outside plant construction experience, including the installation, repair, and maintenance of poles and buried or aerial cable, or related trade school certification in-lieu of one year of experience.


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