Field Technician

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Portsmouth, VA

This role is for a Field Technician at Verizon responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of outside plant facilities, including cables, poles, and associated hardware. Responsibilities involve physical labor, operating equipment, reading work orders, and working flexible hours. Requires a valid driver's license and potentially a CDL.

What you'd actually do

  1. Placing, rearranging and removing outside plant, including aerial, underground, submarine, buried, block and house cables, poles, and associated hardware/fixtures.
  2. Connecting wires and cables to terminals and attaching/detaching various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, building or poles.
  3. Reading and interpreting engineering work orders.
  4. Performing construction work using designated equipment (i.e. digging holes, placing poles, etc.).
  5. Operating Company motor vehicles of varying gross weights to transport equipment.

Skills

Required

  • Valid state driver's license with a satisfactory driving record
  • Class A CDL or the ability to obtain a Class A CDL

Nice to have

  • Related Associate Degree
  • 2 or more years of relevant work experience
  • Completed Verizon Technician Program or similar programs covering electrical or lineman training

What the JD emphasized

  • Valid state driver's license with a satisfactory driving record.
  • Class A CDL or the ability to obtain a Class A CDL.