What are the responsibilities and job description for the Communications Tower and Line Worker position at Tech Providers Inc.?
Title: Communications Tower and Line Worker
Location: Downey, CA (Onsite)
Duration: 12 month contract with potential for extension
Work Schedule: 4/40 with Fridays off
Position Description
The Communications Tower and Line Worker (CTLW) works under the direction of a Communications Tower and Line Supervisor or user agency personnel and is characterized by their work at heights on steel communications towers.
This classification involves:
This classification requires:
Location: Downey, CA (Onsite)
Duration: 12 month contract with potential for extension
Work Schedule: 4/40 with Fridays off
Position Description
The Communications Tower and Line Worker (CTLW) works under the direction of a Communications Tower and Line Supervisor or user agency personnel and is characterized by their work at heights on steel communications towers.
This classification involves:
- Installing, altering, maintaining, and repairing communication antennas.
- Regularly lifting tools, supplies, and equipment exceeding 50 pounds.
- Climbing steel towers up to 200 feet tall.
- Using lineman gaffs to climb utility poles.
- Performing tasks that require lifting, reaching, pulling, and bending.
- Install, alter, maintain, and repair communications antennas, including microwave dish antennas with radomes and associated antenna feeds.
- Fabricate and assemble cable raceway and antenna mounting hardware.
- Perform structural maintenance of tall steel towers and occasionally erect monopoles.
- Install, maintain, and repair telephone poles, crossarms, pole fixtures, and guy wires.
- Trim trees around communication sites, equipment, and communication lines.
- Perform rigging and lifting using utility line trucks and equipment.
- Operate a forklift and other material-handling equipment.
- Operate utility line truck booms, attachments, and winches for aerial access, auguring, lifting, and pole setting.
- Drive automotive equipment, including vehicles exceeding 26,000 pounds GVWR, to and from work sites.
- Tow trailers and pole dollies as required.
- Protocols, procedures, techniques, and equipment used to install, alter, maintain, and repair communications antennas, copper and fiber-optic lines, cables, and related accessories.
- Safe work practices in rigging, working at heights on microwave communications towers and utility poles, and in manholes and other below-grade confined spaces.
- Safety procedures to prevent injury to themselves and others.
- Three (3) years of experience in the installation, alteration, maintenance, and repair of outside overhead communications or power lines and equipment.
- One (1) year of the experience must have been at the journey level.
This classification requires:
- Completion of at least three (3) years in a recognized telephone or power line worker apprentice training program.
- A current and valid OSHA-approved Competent Climber / Rescuer Certification.
- A valid Class B driver’s license.
Salary : $16 - $20
