Installation & Repair Field Technician (Future Opportunity)

This is a future opportunity. Applications will be actively reviewed for current and future openings and filled as vacancies become available.

About the role

Field Technicians install and maintain all Alaska Communications services, facilities, and products in assigned work areas, both remote and non-remote. This includes terrestrial (buried and aerial) Copper and Fiber Optic Plant, Wireless and Microwave towers, facilities such as Remote nodes, Access Points, and cross connects.

Responsibilities

• Complete service orders, repair orders, capital work orders, and maintenance work.
• Complete Line Station Transfers and cuts.
• Install and qualify data cabling to current specifications.
• Install all business and residential station wiring and establish the demarcation point.
• Make preventive maintenance inspections to determine potential deterioration in service.
• Install aerial and underground drops and perform underground drop location.
• Splice to plant as required.
• Correct deficiencies in wiring by splicing or replacing distribution, house cables, station wiring, or underground and aerial drops.

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Four years of training in a relevant telephone apprentice program or equivalent experience leading to journeyman-level performance, including two years of experience in the skills this position typically performs.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment and read and interpret schematics and diagrams.
• Ability to climb and perform work functions on poles and differentiate colors.

Qualifications

• Alaska Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Class A (required for some levels).
• Valid Certificate of Medical Examination (Medical Card).
• Pass a Drug and Alcohol Background check.

External applicants must successfully pass a pre-employment suitability assessment and either a DOT or non-DOT drug test, depending on position.

Pay

$45.31 - $51.03 per hour.