Senior Fiber Construction Technician (Foreperson)
About the role
TDS Telecom is seeking a Senior Outside Plant Construction Technician (Foreperson) to lead and coordinate construction crews in the installation and maintenance of fiber networks. This is a full-time, year-round position requiring hands-on field work while coordinating people, equipment, and timelines.
Responsibilities
- Receives maps and staking sheets for the full construction project and ensures project is built, with limited guidance from supervisors.
- Communicates updates to the project team as required.
- Manages daily and weekly project work based on deadlines, material and equipment availability, weather, and other factors.
- Covers the continual supply of work and availability of materials.
- Drafts and submits redlines upon completion of project.
- Ensures locates are performed on time and prior to team and equipment arriving at the worksite.
- Coordinates with supervisor to ensure smooth coordination of project tasks and avoid disputes.
- Reads construction plans and municipality permits, and determines approach for completing work.
- Maintains all project documentation and records costs of project materials and material transfers.
- Ensures DOT inspections are performed on equipment.
- Works with project managers to ensure projects remain on schedule and within budget.
- Performs general construction labor in various weather conditions while utilizing safety fundamentals.
- Advanced operation of trenchers, backhoes, end loaders, plows, and other excavating equipment to construct and maintain outside plant cable facilities.
- Advanced operation of 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 cable using various test equipment and repairs buried, aerial, underground, and/or customer cable.
- Locates cable and fiber in response to customer requests and/or construction needs.
- Performs cable fault acceptance tests on newly constructed facilities.
- Actively trains, monitors, and coaches team members while sharing construction knowledge and experience.
- Performs quality control inspections and makes training recommendations.
- Enforces safety protocols.
- Serves, cleans, maintains, and repairs equipment.
- Completes all related paperwork in a timely manner.
- Provides assistance to field services technicians, as needed.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of construction equipment operation utilizing various underground and aerial construction equipment such as directional drills, trencher/plow/rock saw, backhoe, or bucket trucks -OR- current military service, or prior military service with honorable discharge.
- 1+ years of experience leading construction projects as a crew foreperson or project manager.
- 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.
- Ability to obtain a Class A CDL.
- Must be able to operate vehicles with manual transmissions.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must also be able to climb poles, ladders, towers or other structures. The employee is occasionally required to sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions and may have to work in attics and crawl spaces, or high-risk areas such as high voltage electrical, trenches, and manholes. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and heavy equipment; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is at times loud.
Benefits
- Medical Coverage
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) Plan
- Generous Vacation & Paid Sick Leave
- Seven Paid National Holidays & One Floating Holiday
- Paid Parental Leave (6 weeks after 12 months of employment)
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Employee Assistance & Wellness Programs
- Associate Resource Groups