Construction-Line Worker

Job Overview

Kinetic provides high-speed broadband Internet, phone service, and Digital TV packages to residential customers as well as products and services for small, medium, and large businesses, and government agencies.

• Install, repair, and maintain poles. Use electronic test equipment to measure signal strength. Interpret staking sheets and blueprints.
• Install aerial cables (fiber and copper). Inspect these lines, analyze, and record test results and assess transmission characteristics to locate faults.
• Set up service for customers by installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.
• Access specific areas to string lines or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances using bucket trucks, or by climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces.
• String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches and pull lines to proper tension using jacks, hoist, and other equipment, as necessary.
• Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
• Lay underground cable directly in trenches or string it through conduits running through trenches/manholes.
• Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.
• Dig trenches for underground wires or cables.
• Perform work in accordance with industry standards and RUS standards.
• Read and follow design engineers’ instructions and specifications, maintain the scope of work on the project and adhere to safety procedures.
• Prepare engineering field notes.
• Interpret buried underground and aerial telecom facilities in records, on maps and in the field with clarity and detail and make recommendations for changes in running line or construction methodologies.
• Participate in engineering, permit and construction processes as required.
• Recognize and repair route issues including but not limited to, hand hole cleanup, sign placement, and weed control.
• Fill and tamp holes, using cement, earth, and tamping devices.

• Ability to use a variety of construction equipment to complete installations, such as digger derricks, bucket trucks, back hoes, trenchers, or cable plows.
• Pole climbing certification.
• Ability to lift/push/pull up to 75 pounds.
• Ability to work in all weather conditions, year‑round.
• Ability to work in confined spaces and at heights.
• Ability to work an on‑call schedule rotation as well as days/nights/overnights/weekends/holidays/overtime, as needed.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to pass DOT certification pre‑hire.
• Minimum qualifications to obtain a CDL post‑hire.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.
• Exceptional time‑management and attention to detail to complete all paperwork accurately and on‑time.

• OSHA 10 Hour Safety Course and Buck Squeeze (Pole Climbing Certifications).
• Proficient at operating various Construction Equipment.

Physical Tasks – Standing Continuously: 67-100% | Walking Continuously: 67 – 100% | Sitting Occasionally: 0-33%
Driving - Car:
Occasionally: 0-33% | Van:
Continuously: 67-100% | CMV:
Occasionally: 0-33% | Climbing:
Continuously: 67-100% | Bending:
Continuously: 67-100% | Crouching:
Continuously: 67-100%| Pushing‑Pulling:
Continuously: 67-100% |Carrying:
Continuously: 67-100% | Reaching Above Head:
Continuously: 67-100% | Lifting‑Lowering >1-15 lbs:
Continuously: 67-100% | >15-30 lbs:
Continuously: 67-100% | >30+ lbs:
Continuously: 67-100%
Repetitive Hand Action
: >

Medium Dexterity:
Continuously: 67-100% | Fine Manipulating:
Continuously: 67-100% |Operate Foot Control:
Continuously: 67-100%
Audio Visual Needs - Hearing:
Continuously: 67-100%| Near Vision:
Continuously: 67-100%| Far Vision:
Continuously: 67-100% |Peripheral Vision:
Continuously: 67-100% | Depth Perception:
Occasionally: 0-33% | Color Discrimination:
Continuously: 67-100%
Exposures to
:
Cold:
Frequently: 34-66%, Heat:
Frequently: 34-66%, Dampness:
Frequently: 34-66%, Heights:
Frequently: 34-66%, Vibration:
Frequently: 34-66%, Skin Irritants:
Frequently: 34-66%, Lung Irritants:
Dust:
Frequently: 34-66%, Fumes/Gases:
Frequently: 34-66%,
Equipment Used in Job Performance/Working Environment
:
Test Equipment, Ladders, Climbing Hooks, Hand and Power Tools, Van, Buried power equipment, Digger…