About This Role
This role supports the safe and efficient installation of underground and aerial fiber optic cable infrastructure. It involves cable placement, duct preparation, equipment operation, field documentation, and adherence to all safety, quality, and client requirements. The Lineman provides manual labor to construction field service crews.
Responsibilities
- Pull, place, and install fiber optic cable through underground ducts, conduits, manholes, vaults, handholes, and other underground structures
- Set up, inspect, and operate cable-pulling equipment, including winches, rollers, sheaves, capstans, and related placement tools
- Perform hand and mechanical cable pulls while maintaining required pulling tension, minimum bend radius, and cable-handling standards
- Complete conduit rodding, duct proofing, duct cleaning, mule tape installation, and other duct-preparation activities
- Identify, report, and assist in resolving blocked, damaged, obstructed, or otherwise unsuitable ducts
- Properly coil, rack, label, secure, and protect fiber cable within underground structures
- Assist with aerial cable installation, including placing fiber cables, multiports, spiderweb or PSP cables, and associated equipment
- Lash cable and multiports to strand using a lasher, ensuring all work meets applicable installation standards
- Install aerial hardware, including strand, anchors, bolts, and related pole-mounted equipment
- Assist with hanging strand and fiber cable using a boom truck and/or through pole-climbing activities, where trained, authorized, and required
- Read and interpret construction drawings, plans, work packages, and project specifications
- Determine cable lengths, complete pre-construction documentation, and obtain required reporting and signoffs
- Prepare, update, and submit redline drawings to accurately reflect completed work and field changes
- Maintain accurate cable footage records, production reports, daily work reports, timesheets, and other required project documentation
- Identify existing utilities and safely work around underground and overhead infrastructure
- Establish and maintain safe work zones, including compliance with traffic-control requirements
- Operate company vehicles, trailers, tools, and equipment safely and responsibly
- Operate construction equipment required to complete assigned work, when appropriately licensed, trained, and authorized
- Understand the safe operation and basic functionality of bucket trucks and related aerial equipment
- Clean, inspect, and maintain assigned company vehicles, tools, and equipment
- Maintain a clean, organized, and professional worksite
- Protect confidential company, client, and project information
