Outside Plant Technician

Overview

Job Description: This position earns between $613.50 - $1803.00 weekly contractual wage. As an employee of AT&T you are eligible for amazing perks and benefits.

• Provide consistent, respectful and professional internal/external customer care and maintain open lines of communication to ensure high customer satisfaction.
• Work with heavy duty power equipment and small tools in the installation, repair and maintenance of outside plant facilities.
• Load necessary tools and heavy equipment onto trucks or trailers.
• Receive work assignments and instructions from supervisor and/or through a computer access terminal.
• Operate power equipment such as compressors, pumps, blowers, hydraulic aerial lifts (buckets), and ladders mounted on trucks.
• Perform construction work such as digging holes, placing poles, placing cable, air pipe and inner duct in various conduit systems and open excavations.
• Unreel, pull, and string wire strand and cable from pole to pole and to buildings; determine differences between wire and cable colors; connect wires and cables to terminals and attach/detach hardware.
• Splice and test PIC and non-pressurized cable and create appropriate enclosures.
• Use test equipment to check for toxic and explosive gas in manholes and manage water and debris removal as needed.
• Dismantle, move or remove aerial, underground or building wire and associated equipment and hardware.
• Review and interpret work orders, work prints and Company practices.
• Work outside in all kinds of weather; climb poles and ladders; enter tunnels, buildings, trenches, crawl spaces and manholes to place cables and equipment.
• Follow established safety procedures and safely utilize equipment per manufacturer's specifications, including weight limitations.
• Lift and move loads up to 120 pounds.
• Work with fiber optic cable from the distribution terminal to the customer premises and identify color coded wires for connections.
• Splice and test non-pressurized cables in aerial, underground, buried, or building configurations, including fiber optic cables.
• Perform tap-ins and energizing counts; identify conductors in adjoining cable sections per diagrams and specifications using test signals and fiber optic test equipment.
• Close splices with waterproof enclosures and shrinkable sleeving as applicable; repair and reorganize cable plant and related equipment.
• Use test equipment to isolate conductor faults or identify defective or broken fibers; turn up, troubleshoot and maintain digital carrier equipment and associated terminals.
• Use cable locators and other test equipment to verify and determine defects in cables, conductors and wires.

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Temporary (Fixed Term)

Spartanburg, South Carolina

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.