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Pillar Innovations is an Industrial Solutions and Service Company with over 15 years of experience in the Energy, Mining, Manufacturing, Industrial Construction, Aggregate, and Renewables Industries. The Corporate Headquarters are located in Grantsville, MD with several offices throughout the country.

Position Overview

Welcome to the role ofSr. Field Technician - Fiber Optics. In this position, you will string and maintain fiber optic cable which includes pulling, tensioning, stranding, and spacing lines. This individual will troubleshoot, maintain, and repair fiber lines. This position requires proficiency with new cable installs, removals, modifications, and repairs in outside plant locations to include telephone poles, underground services, and conduit. The Sr. Field Technician is also responsible for terminating, splicing, documenting, and testing fiber optic cables with an end goal of meeting customer needs and providing maximum operating efficiency. The work performed will be within communications and power spaces.

This individual understands each product and supports the improvement of operational efficiency and must be comfortable working in heights and confined spaces for this position.

What You'll Do

• Safely perform work in communications and energized spaces
• Participate in work requiring pole climbing when necessary
• Perform work from an elevated position in the bucket truck
• Recognize general safety hazards and electrical-specific hazards such as missing and or degraded parts and hardware
• Manage worksite housekeeping duties and equipment inspections
• Perform minor field repairs on equipment
• Lead cable stripping, cleaving, terminating, and testing
• Stay up to date with Industry Standard coding for fiber optics
• Proficiently work with and calibrate fiber optic equipment such as splicers, OTDR (optical time domain refractometer), traffic identifiers, light-source power-meter, fiber specific hand tools, etc.
• Utilize proper methods and procedures for terminating, splicing, and testing fiber optic cables
• Perform ring cuts on live fiber without affecting existing services
• Read and understand manufacturer manuals and proficiently perform standards for operating, installing, and repairing electronic equipment, product, and components
• Troubleshoot and repair common fiber optic equipment and component issues to include advanced OTDR testing, reporting, and troubleshooting
• Install demarcation enclosures, switches, and other telecom equipment
• Route premise cable both inside and outside of facilities
• Coordinate fiber activities with other disciplines and departments as necessary
• Monitor and maintain min/max truck stock materials
• Responsible for completing time and material (TandM) documentation
• Complete documentation to include record-keeping, billing, inventory, etc.
• Interact daily with customers and complete daily close of business (COB) reports
• Suggest and execute corrective actions to address problems affecting any fiber or fiber related equipment
• Generate trace reports and SEP (splice engineering package) files
• Lead complex fiber optic operations, outages, and/or restorations
• Calculate fiber optic facility attenuation budget
• Responsible for leading multiple crews
• Ensure work is performed to engineering and design specifications
• Oversee 3rd party optical ground wire (OPGW) installation
• Lead, mentor, and train field staff
• Provide feedback and input for employee performance reviews

Working Conditions

• Walk / use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls / reach with hands and arms / climb ladders and stairs / crawl / kneel
• Climb poles; carry, set-up and extend ladders weighing up to 65 pounds, as well as work with confidence on ladders and utility poles at heights of up to 60 eet in the air to perform tasks in communications spaces
• Work indoors, outdoors, and underground in various weather conditions
• Able to walk long distances
• Able to lift up to 65 pounds without assistance

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