Line Worker
Core
Install, maintain, and repair aerial and underground telecommunications plants, including service drops, house cables, and building terminals.
Role type
Field telecommunications line worker
Builds
Outside plant facilities (aerial and underground wire/cable infrastructure)
Domain
Telecommunications / Utility Infrastructure
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
operating heavy-duty power equipment, climbing ladders and poles, working at heights in boom trucks, reading cut sheets and work order prints, driving manual transmission vehicles, operating test equipment, lifting moderate to heavy objects
Preferred skills
prior experience as Line Worker, OSP Construction Installer/Splicer, Plant Construction Installer, Cable Splicer, or equivalent telecommunications field technician
Technologies
boom trucks, power dollies, power saws, power winches, test equipment, manual transmission vehicles
Responsibilities
place, move, rearrange, replace, connect, disconnect, transfer, maintain, reroute, and remove aerial and underground plants; operate company vehicle; handle and climb ladders and poles; attach or detach hardware to wires, cables, buildings, or poles; load tools and materials on trucks and drive to work locations
Seniority
Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC