Line Worker

Summary: Place, move, rearrange, replace, connect, disconnect, transfer, maintain, reroute, and remove aerial and underground plants, including service drops, house cables, and building terminals. Operate company vehicle as required. Perform such work under minimum supervision. General Duties Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: • Work with heavy-duty power equipment, i.e., power dolly, power saws, power winch, and hand tools in the installation and maintenance of outside plant facilities. The nature of this work is a variety of tasks with only general guidelines as to instructions, practices and/or procedures in doing the work. There exists in this work considerable opportunity and possibility of making errors, and the consequences of making errors would be of importance in terms of time, material wastage and/or delay before the error is discovered and corrected. • Handle and climb ladders and poles, work at heights in boom trucks, enter tunnels, building, trenches, crawl spaces, or manholes to place materials. • Attach or detach various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, buildings or poles. • Use test equipment to check for gas in manholes and may have to empty water and other debris from manholes. • Dismantle, move or remove aerial, underground or building wire, cable, associated equipment and hardware. • Load required tools and materials on boom trucks, center mounts, companion trucks, and pick-ups and drive to work location. • Read and interpret cut sheets and work order prints in order to complete work assignments • Keep detailed written record of work activity.…