Lineman Field Technician

Alantra • Anchorage, AK

26d

About The Position

At Alaska Communications, team members are expected to put the team first, focus on customers, maintain a can-do attitude, own their results, and act with integrity. The company is unable to support remote international applicants or routinely sponsor work visas.

Field Technicians install and maintain Alaska Communications services, facilities, and products in assigned work areas, both remote and non-remote. This includes terrestrial buried and aerial copper and fiber-optic plant, wireless and microwave towers, and facilities such as remote nodes, access points, and cross connects. Lineman duties include building and maintaining aerial and underground plant and lines, maintaining outside-plant poles, towers, cables, pedestals, terminals, and drops, operating heavy equipment, creating as-builts and updating records, and clearing rights of way.

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• Possess and maintain a driver's license.
• Four years of training in a relevant telephone apprentice program or equivalent experience leading to journeyman-level performance in this specialty, including two years of experience in the skills and work this position typically performs.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics and diagrams.
• Ability to climb and perform work functions on poles and to differentiate colors.
• Possess and maintain an Alaska Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Class A.
• Possess and maintain a valid Certificate of Medical Examination (Medical Card).
• Pass a DOT drug and alcohol background check.
• External applicants must successfully pass a pre-employment suitability assessment and a DOT drug test.

Responsibilities

• Build Alaska Communications aerial and underground plant.
• Maintain outside-plant poles and towers, copper and fiber-optic cables, pedestals, terminals, and drops.
• Operate tractors, backhoes, trenchers, augers, and other heavy equipment.
• Create as-builts and help maintain records by providing updates.
• Build and maintain aerial and buried Alaska Communications lines.
• Clear rights of way using hand tools, power tools, or heavy equipment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED