CONSTRUCTION TECH I

CROSS TELEPHONE COMPANY IS IN SEARCH OF AN OUTSIDE PLANT CONSTRUCTION TECHNICIAN TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN OUTSIDE PLANT TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES BY PERFORMING THE FOLLOWING DUTIES: 

LOCATION - WARNER, OKLAHOMA

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Repairs, installs, and maintains outside plant facilities including telephone poles, underground services, conduit, and cable splicing.
• Clears work area.
• Abides by RUS/company standards
• Pulls fiber and drops
• Installs NIDS and PEDS
• Lifts and loads equipment and materials onto company vehicles
• Assures dependable and uninterrupted operation of telephone communications
• Performs preventative and routine maintenance
• Troubleshoots and identifies malfunctioning or inoperative equipment
• Identifies problems by using electronic testing equipment
• Receives, investigates, resolves and tracks trouble tickets
• Places direct buried cable by operating plowing, digging and trenching equipment.  Maintains buried cable by testing and repairing cable.  Performs related construction tasks as required.
• Repairs and maintains aerial cable.
• Installs and maintains pedestals, poles, carrier sites and equipment at subscriber locations.
• Operates digging and trenching equipment as needed.

Safety Sensitive Position

This job position is safety-sensitive. Under applicable law and Company policies, an employee in a safety-sensitive position who tests positive for marijuana (even if the employee has a valid medical marijuana license) is subject to discipline, up to and including termination of employment.

Supervisory Responsibilities                                               

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.

Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.

Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time; ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; arrives at meetings and appointments on time.

Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience                                             

High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Current driver's license - CDL preferred

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.  The employee must be able to climb a pole. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is frequently exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Competitive benefits package includes paid vacation, 401k with company match, and company-paid health insurance premiums.