What are the responsibilities and job description for the Aerial Foreman position at Texstar?
The Aerial Foreman, under general supervision, is expected to safely lead the crew in executing the daily planned production. The foreman is responsible for ensuring that materials issuances, usage, and reporting is consistent with company policies and practices.
What you’ll do…
- This is a working foreman position. The foreman is expected to safely lead the crew in executing the daily planned production
- The foreman is responsible for ensuring that materials issuances, usage, and reporting is consistent with company policies and practices
- Understand how to proficiently set up the job (strand trailer, fiber trailer and caddies)
- Understand clearances from the other utilities, ground, road, highway, sidewalk, and non-pedestrian areas
- Ability to set up jobs for most effective daily production by organizing workload to determine priority of duties and coordinate the activities of others
- Ensures that all work sites are safely set up and all work is executed safely
- Captures crew production each day and reports to supervisors/project managers
- Oversees training of new crew members
- Assist with the development, training, and implementation of new technical procedures and ensures that all training provided meets quality and regulatory requirements. Provide additional training in these areas as needed
- Follow instructions and communicate verbally, in writing and electronically as needed
- Read and comprehend maps and schematics
- Operate equipment, including but not limited to an aerial lift device, lasher, and hand tools and other cable placement equipment
- Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and work areas to ensure compliance and safety regulations
- Work standing, at shoulder height and overhead, for extended periods
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Who we are looking for...
- Minimum Two (2) to five (5) years of telecommunications construction experience
- Minimum two (2) years of Foreman experience
- Prior work related to quality control inspection preferred
- A valid driver’s license required with a good driving record is required (Class A CDL is a plus)
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus
- Proficient in the use of hand tools and equipment. (Wrenches, Drills, Ladders, Lanyards, Forklifts, Saws, etc.)
- Authorized to work in the United States
Benefits and Company Summary
- Competitive Pay
- Comprehensive benefit package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Accident, Critical Illness, Life and AD&D, Short and Long-term disability insurance, Legal, both traditional and ROTH 401k retirement plans with company match, Company stock purchase program and tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off
- 8 paid annual Holidays
Texstar Enterprises, LLC. ("Texstar") provides project management, construction, and maintenance services for telecommunications providers in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States. We offer a turnkey solution for network deployment that encompasses every aspect of aerial and underground line construction and all associated maintenance.
Headquartered in Selma, Texas. Texstar has been delivering reliable, cost-effective solutions to leading telecommunication providers across the country since 1989. We are fully committed to providing a safe work environment for our employees and continuously strive to exceed the expectations of our customers.
EEO
Our Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind including, based on disability and protected veteran status. The Company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company's policy to comply with all applicable state and federal laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Please visit the following URL to view the EEO is the Law poster and the Supplement. (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm)
The Company also does not consider criminal convictions to be an absolute bar to employment and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories.
Applicants applying for positions in Illinois are not required to disclose arrests or sealed or expunged records of convictions.
