Outside Plant Construction Technician II
BendBroadband
- Butte, MT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Performs general construction labor in various weather conditions while utilizing safety fundamentals.
- Operates construction and other excavating equipment to construct and maintain outside plant fiber facilities.
- Performs the placement of new aerial and buried fiber according to maps, staking sheets, and locate markings.
- Reviews and updates GIS, maps, addresses, as-builds.
- Sets peds, vaults, and handholes along with marking/labeling fiber optic and/or copper facilities.
- Proficiently operates all test equipment associated with outside plant facilities and construction duties.
- Installs, troubleshoots, tests, splices, repairs, and maintains fiber optic facilities.
- Identifies location of defective fiber using various test equipment and repairs buried, aerial, underground, and/or customer fiber.
- Locates cable and fiber in response to customer requests and/or construction needs.
- Performs cable fault acceptance tests on newly constructed facilities.
- Ensures worksite and landscape is fully restored after project completion.
- Trains and mentors personnel as directed by supervisor or team lead.
- Services, cleans, maintains, and repairs equipment.
- Completes all related paperwork in a timely manner
- Provides assistance to field services technicians, as needed
- 1+ years of construction equipment operation utilizing various underground and aerial construction equipment such as directional drills, trencher/plow/rocksaw, backhoe, or bucket trucks -OR- current military service, or prior military service with honorable discharge.
- Must follow the TDS attendance guidelines in order to meet TDS’s business needs including but not limited to our obligations to our customers and to our customers’ needs.
- Must have and maintain a valid driver’s license and remain eligible for DOT requirements.
- Must have the ability to obtain a Class A CDL. A current CDL is preferred at hire, but TDS will train and certify eligible associates through its in-house CDL certification program after hire.
- Physical requirements may vary based on company needs: Ability to climb poles, ladders, towers, and other structures as needed. Ability to kneel, dig, lift, and pull.
- Upon hire, must successfully complete customer-specific requirements, which may include a background check administered by the customer.
- Preferred 1+ years’ experience in the construction of fiber optic cable outside plant networks -OR- installation of any underground or overhead utilities will be considered.
- Understanding of telecommunication products and services.
- Proven organizational skills and ability to multi-task.
- Requires being available for on-call/standby responsibilities and may require occasional travel.
- Must be willing to work overtime as needed. May be required to work various/swing shifts as business needs dictate.
- Must be able to operate vehicles with manual transmissions.