About This Role
This role involves the construction and installation of various cable-based services for customers. The technician installs, maintains, tests, repairs, and replaces cable television transmission and distribution systems and associated hardware, including equipment in homes and commercial buildings.
Responsibilities
- Install, maintain, test, repair, and/or replace cable television transmission and distribution systems and associated hardware
- Install, maintain, test, repair, and/or replace equipment in homes and commercial buildings
- Work with analog and digital cable TV signals, High-Speed Internet connections, and Digital telephone via coax cable
- Perform physical labor such as loading and unloading equipment
- Perform general maintenance in and around the local office
- Learn and adapt to new and emerging technologies
- Work outside in all weather conditions, any time of the day or night
- Complete other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Acquire and maintain membership in the Union
- Take up and maintain PA residency within a radius of twenty (20) miles of the base area office or within the county in which the office is based within one hundred twenty (120) days
- Valid PA Driver’s License and good driving record
- Strong background in personal computers and Microsoft Windows
- Strong background in electronics
- Knowledge of building structures
- Knowledge of commercial phone systems
- Customer relations skills
- Computer skills
- Communication skills - oral and written
- Organization and time management skills
- Ability to splice hard line cable, passives, and electronics
- Ability to pull trunk and feeder into open trenches
- Ability to climb and work aloft on poles, ladders, or other support structures
- Ability to work effectively individually (without immediate supervision present), and function as a team player to complete larger projects
- Ability to perform tasks and adhere to company policies and procedures
- Ability to work well with hand tools
- Ability to lift and carry up to 100 pounds
- Ability to travel within required service footprint
- Willing and able to complete other duties as assigned
Nice to have:
- Associate's degree in a related technical field or equivalent related experience
About the Company
Blue Ridge Communications is a subsidiary of Pencor.
