Outside Plant Inspector

Job Title:
Outside Plant Inspector

Job Summary:

The Outside Plant Inspector (OPI) oversees, audits, and validates contractor field work involving Cable TV and Fiber Optic cable plant construction. The duties include auditing, validating, and inspecting contractor performance, which may consist of directional drilling, placement of underground and aerial fiber optic and cable TV cable, hand holes, splice enclosures, grounding, bonding, and other construction practices consistent with engineering documents, permits, and designs.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

The OSI inspects the fiber construction using acceptable industry standards.

• Accurately update construction maps and systems with changes/additions and materials consistent with established processes
• Identify and communicate construction issues, progress, opportunities, etc., to management and design staff as needed
• Maintain all record-keeping in a timely and accurate fashion
• Other duties as assigned by management and design staff
• Writes technical reports or documentation
• The company reserves the right to add or change duties anytime

Job Qualifications:

• Experience: 1-2 years of related experience (preferred, not required)

Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Quality control analysis
• Active listening
• Monitoring
• Complex problem solving
• Judgment and decision-making
• Operation monitoring
• Troubleshooting

Physical Demands

The physical demands described below represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essentials.

• Able to use a shovel and post-hole digger
• Able to work out in the elements (heat, cold, rain, etc.)
• Ability to work at heights up to 50'
• Must be able to climb poles
• Sitting, standing, and walking
• Lifting up to 50 pounds several time a day
• Overhead lifting of over 20 pounds
• Bending, stooping, climbing ladders, and crawling
• Long hours involving overtime and weekends, as necessary
• Ability to read effectively from a computer screen, sampling device, and a paper copy

We are an equal-opportunity employer.