Our Temporary Outside Plant Technicians earn between $23.73 - $52.72 per hour. With our amazing wage opportunities, our average starting earnings begin at $59,300.80 per year. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training. The position involves receiving verbal or written daily work assignments and instructions from supervisors/peers and/or dispatch center; loading required tools and material into Company vehicle and traveling to work location. The technician performs routine maintenance and safety checks on Company provided tools, equipment and motor vehicles; reviews and analyzes complex schematic drawings to determine work to be done, methods and sequence of tasks, communicates discrepancies to associated work groups and recommends job design changes. The role includes working with small hand tools, mechanical equipment, color-coded and test signal identified wires for the connection and repair of wires and cables to related telecommunications equipment. Responsibilities also include splicing pairs of color-coded or tone identified conductors together by hand, splicing tool or machine, rearranging and reconnecting cable facilities, and may also work on digital data circuits or fiber conductors using sensitive equipment. The technician identifies, isolates and repairs various types of cable faults, works with outside contractors during excavation of cable facilities to accomplish service restoration and/or installation of new facilities locating and/or marking buried and underground cable facilities, and isolates and locates air pressure leaks in underground cable facilities. The role requires the use of various electronic test equipment and may require developing a working knowledge of binary numbering system, digital concepts and fiber optics. The technician may be required to dig with shovel, jackhammer, etc., to find buried trouble, climb non-stepped poles with the use of climbers, and use mechanized systems requiring basic computer literacy. Communication with other work groups, customers and vendors on completed work and requests for various information regarding new work assignments is essential. The technician must accurately perform time reporting tasks, classify work operations to account codes and explain work changes to the customer, while meeting specific quality, production and safety standards. The role includes installing, rearranging, repairing and removing communication facilities, which could include inside wiring, and requires customer contact. The technician will be expected to be the Company's representative and customer's advocate, working in both a construction and maintenance environment.