Construction Specialist

About the role

Location: Berlin, CT. Long‑term contract position supporting a major telecommunications provider’s Field Operations team. The Construction Specialist will perform construction quality audits in the field (≈80% of time) and office PC work (≈20%). The role involves tracking project progress, reviewing contractor invoices, coordinating with vendors, ensuring compliance with standards, and overseeing crew activities.

Responsibilities

• Tracking progress of assigned projects and reviewing/approving contractor invoices.
• Communicating with vendors for proper documentation into the tracking system (P2).
• Ensuring execution of overhead/underground construction duties (placing hard‑line cables, framing and stranding poles, transferring facilities between poles, placing cable in joint trench, safe operation of construction vehicles and cable trailers).
• Investigating and monitoring accurate record keeping for project start dates, milestones, production logs, material costs, and labor expenditures.
• Instructing work‑site safety standards, conducting site visits for compliance, and participating in regular safety meetings.
• Supporting specialists and leadership with project coordination.
• Generating logs and reports on construction, projects, materials, and expenditures.
• Reviewing, resolving, and following up on customer requests and complaints.
• Monitoring crew performance to establish goals and objectives.
• Maintaining regular, consistent, and punctual attendance; ability to work nights, weekends, variable schedules, and overtime as needed.
• Coordinating and supervising daily activities of business support, technical, or production staff performing similar functions.
• Setting team priorities, assigning tasks, and checking work at regular intervals.
• Ensuring all work meets or exceeds Comcast, local, state, or federal standards and regulations.
• Updating JT or Polaris entry (job docs/maps) QC for path verification.
• Serving as primary contractor interface in the field and acting as the NGAN liaison with regional network technicians.
• Ensuring new or upgraded power supply is in place and operational before the cut date.
• Overall responsibility for the quality of the NGAN product (Next Generation Access Network).

Pay

$38‑$43 per hour.

Schedule

Variable schedule requiring nights, weekends, and overtime as necessary.