Overview: 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.
  
• Coordinates with supervisor to ensure 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.
  
• Regularly engages municipalities, utility companies, suppliers, contractors, and property owners in order to smoothly coordinate 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.Ensures safety protocols are enforced.
• Services, 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.

• 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 pass all components of the Safety Training course curriculum.
• Upon hire, must successfully complete customer-specific requirements, which may include a background check administered by the customer.
• Preferred 2+ years’ experience in the construction of fiber optic cable outside plant networks -OR- 2+ years installation of any underground or overhead utilities will be considered.
• Understanding of telecommunication products and services.
• Proven organizational skills and ability to multi-task.
• 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.

Pay Range (Hr./Yr.): $29.56/Hr. - $44.34/Hr.