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Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Previews jobs, coordinates construction activities and monitors and inspects work performed by contractors.  Analyzes plans, schematics and related drawings, revises and implements where required.

2. Organizes and coordinates releases with customers and others SaskTel departments for facility rearrangements.  Terminates, grounds, splices and connects cables at access terminals, remote equipment sites, customer premises and dial offices.  Attaches electronic components and associated hardware.

3. Investigates customer service reports by testing and locating problems.  Repairs outside plant damages and troubles.  Locates and stakes buried facilities as requested.  Programs, installs and maintains cable pressurization systems and associated software. Responds to cable monitoring alarms.

4. Splices aerial, buried and underground feeder and distribution cables i.e. fibre optics, telephone and coaxial cables as well as as service wires.

5. Buries distribution cables using heavy equipment, coordinates with other utilities, restores work sites and customer premises upon completion.

6. Places, rearranges, maintains and removes telecommunication cables in underground duct formations and confined spaces using hydraulic equipment.

7. Operates polecat digger trucks and bucket/ladder trucks as required.  Erects and removes poles, aerial cable, guy wires and associated hardware for aerial lines.

QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Grade 12 with Level 30 Algebra and Physics OR completion of Basic Electricity, Electronics and Transmission.

2. Working knowledge of cable splicing and repair (single employee district locations only).

For more information about this job and to apply, visit sasktel.com/careers