Summary: The OSP Communications Ground Hand Laborer is responsible for working with your hands and assisting directly and indirectly with Equipment Operators, Lineman, and Splicers. Laborers jobs include assisting in the placing, rearranging, and removing poles, conduit, cable lines and drops. You'll work with cables and conduit to perform maintenance and new build on outside plant equipment. As a Laborer, you’ll assist in installing lines and cables (including fiber, coax, and copper) alongside equipment operators to dig holes and bury cables. Most often, you'll work outside as part of a team performing installation, maintenance and repair on facilities that start from outside the Central Office (CO) and stop at the terminal or at a customer's building.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

• Pull fiber/copper/coax cable through existing duct package, pull cable through conduit either manually, blowing, or mechanically
• Fill out paperwork as required
• Flexibility to work across all divisions (underground and aerial
• Willing to work outside in varying weather conditions
• Performs other duties as requested by crew leader
• Lay cable, conduit and fiber innerduct
• Keep detailed record of work activity
• Unreel, pull and string wire and cable from pole to pole
• Assist on installing poles and place wires or cables
• Work with hand tools
  

SAFETY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adhere to, promote, and accept personal responsibility for compliance to:

o Federal and Local Occupational Safety and Health Regulations

o Industry Consensus Standards

o KGPCo Injury and Illness Prevention Program Manual

· Participate in job site safety/hazard analysis

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and/or QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or GED, technical or college degree preferred
• Ability stand, walk, crawl, and work in all environments, on ladders, in attic spaces, on ceilings, in tunnels, on poles, and in trenches to access various installation and construction points as required
• Ability to lift 50 pounds on a regular basis and on occasion, 75lbs.
• Valid Driver’s License is required
• Exhibit self-awareness
• Exhibit a tendency for continuing education and self-improvement
• Exhibit enthusiasm and determination
• Exhibit industry awareness
• Must be able to work nights and weekends
• Must be able to work with others so being a team player is important
• Must be able to work outdoors in the elements

KGPCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity