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Life at Summit Broadband
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Be a part of an innovative, diverse and creative team inspiring to change the landscape of the telecommunications industry.
Benefits
Summit Broadband offers exceptional benefits to full-time employees, including:
• Health Insurance • Dental • Vision
• Life Insurance • Disability • 401(K) with employer matching
• A wellness program • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Employee Referral Program
Construction Technician
- Job Title
- Construction Technician
- Job ID
- 27626855
- Location
- Orlando, FL
- Other Location
- Description
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Summit Broadband is a leading fiber-optics telecommunications provider in Central and Southwest Florida, providing voice, video, data, and high-speed internet services to commercial and residential customers. We are an organization that value’s each employee’s contributions and encourages everyone to share their ideas. Standing out in the industry by providing superior products and exceptional customer service, this growing and dynamic high-tech company is seeking a Construction Technician to join our team.
Job Title: Construction Technician
Status: Full Time/Non-exempt
Reports to: Outside Plant Manager
Position Summary:
The Construction Technician is responsible for supporting the OSP with outages and normal plant maintenance for aerial and underground.
Job Description
Technical responsibilities:- Maintain existing and construct new plant as follows
- Dig by hand to place small sections of underground cable/fiber
- Pull fiber-optic cable through conduit
- Use a bucket truck to install small sections of aerial cable
- Remove and replace hand holes and fiber markers
- Repair damaged underground and aerial plant as need arises.
- Installation, repair, and maintenance of inside wire including, Cat5 & Fiber
- Based on locate tickets from Sunshine One-Call, accurately locate and mark existing underground fiber and copper cables to protect plant on occasions.
- Ensures customer satisfaction by providing quality service and identifying customer needs
- Ensure compliance with OSHA safety standards
- Assist with and troubleshoot systems as necessary
- Responds to the needs of a 24/7/365 operation
- Must be able to work after hours and weekends. Remain in service during outages until resolved.
- Remain in a state of readiness to handle call issues when on call. Readiness includes being in local market, be in a state of mind so as to perform service and having company provided communications equipment ready to receive calls.
- Must be able to work emergency schedules during natural disasters and network outages
- Full accountability in safety, productivity, quality, workmanship and customer service
- Maintain vehicle in a clean and professional manner
- Dress in approved Summit/OTC branded clothing and arrive to work in a neat and professional manner
- Ability to multi-task
- Conduct field surveys of existing or proposed outside plant installations including aerial and underground network facilities
- Ability to deal with and solve problems using solid judgment skills
- Uses excellent hearing and listening skills to receive detailed information
- Other duties as assigned including non-technical
- Must have valid driver’s license with a clear MVR
- Employee is required to drive during night time conditions
- You must have close vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust your focus with good hand-eye coordination
- Must be able to pass standard background check and consumer report
- Must pass pre-employment and compulsory drug screening
- High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) required
- Two years telecommunications experience required
- Must be able to lift 75 lbs. repeatedly
- Must be able and willing to climb ladders and work on utility poles
- Must be able and willing to work in adverse weather conditions and attics and crawlspaces
- This job could require working from a bucket truck and performing various work duties from such an environment
- Must have and maintain own required hand tools
- Computer skills to sufficient to process trouble tickets
- Knowledge of Excel and Word
- Flexibility to work mandatory overtime in order to meet business needs.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Summit Broadband, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Company participates in the E-Verify program.
- Maintain existing and construct new plant as follows