Outside Plant Technician B (TERM)

Location: 117 Tavern Rd, Martinsburg, WV 25401 | Union: CWA 2222 (CBA 142) | Term position: 6–30 months

About the role

Performs work associated with the installation, removal, or rearrangement of outside plant facilities. Connects wires and cables to terminals and attaches or detaches various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, buildings, or poles. Keeps reports and records and performs other duties as assigned. May be assigned to other work locations as needed.

Responsibilities

• Performing work operations in connection with providing telephone service.
• Placing, rearranging, and removing outside telephone plant, including aerial, underground, submarine, buried, block, and house cables, poles, and associated hardware fixtures and equipment.
• Trimming trees as required.
• Connecting wires and cables to terminals and attaching or detaching various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, buildings, or poles.
• Placing various terminals and/or cabinets as required.
• Inspecting, repairing, and maintaining wires, cables, and poles.
• Operating construction-type equipment such as winches, chain saws, hydraulic aerial lifts, and using large hand tools in placing wires and related materials.
• Working aloft; climbing ladders and poles; entering tunnels, buildings, trenches, crawl spaces, manholes, and other confined spaces to accomplish job tasks.
• Reading and interpreting engineering plans.
• Digging holes, placing poles, laying cable and conduit in the ground, unrolling cable, placing fiber interduct, and pulling and stringing wire and cable from pole to pole.
• Draining water and removing debris from manholes adhering to established guidelines and procedures.
• Operating company motor vehicles of varying gross weights, which may tow auxiliary equipment and supplies such as poles, cable reels, generator pumps, etc., in a safe manner.
• Locating buried underground cable and wire as required.
• Interacting with non-Frontier technicians in joint use and/or emergency operations.
• Completing all related administrative paperwork, time and material reporting (time sheets), inspection reports, inventory reports, etc.
• Working outside in all weather conditions.
• Recognizing and taking proper precautions when working near any hazardous materials.
• Standing or sitting for long periods of time as required.
• Performing additional duties and tasks as required by the company.

Requirements

• Meet safety-related requirements including OSHA, state agencies, manufacturers, and company standards.
• Perform physical requirements of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, including perceiving differences in wire/cable colors, moving/lifting items up to 100 pounds (ladders, tools, air tanks, cable reels, test equipment), working aloft, climbing ladders and poles, and entering tunnels, buildings, trenches, crawl spaces, manholes, and other confined spaces.
• Pass a security background investigation if required.
• Communicate effectively with customers.
• Work non-scheduled days as business needs necessitate.
• Meet applicable federal and state standards for operating the size vehicles covered by this job title.
• Hold a valid state driver's license with a satisfactory driving record.
• Ability to drive a vehicle with a manual gearshift.
• Where a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) is required: pass an alcohol and drug test, complete company-provided DOT training, and qualify on DOT's CDL written and skills tests to retain the job.

Training

Training generally includes pole climbing, classroom instruction, and on-the-job training. May include Department of Transportation training and safe driving courses. Employees are required to meet training standards to be retained in the job.

Pay

Wage range: $737.00 – $1,807.00 per week.

Benefits

You will receive all the benefits to which regular (“permanent”) employees are entitled except for any contractual layoff or termination allowance.

Employment terms

This is a TERM position (6 months to 30 months). You are being hired with the express understanding that your employment will terminate within a 6–30 month time frame, upon completion of the Fiber Modernization Project in West Virginia. You will remain in the same occupation into which you have been hired for the duration of your term of employment. Before the company hires a regular full-time employee to fill a vacancy, the company will give first preference to any qualified term employee who is performing at a satisfactory level in the job title, work group, and geographic location in which the vacancy exists.