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Overview and Essential Functions

Overview and Essential Functions

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Do you enjoy working outside in all kinds of weather? Then you may have found your next career move. We’re looking for foremen to join our team and help connect America.

What you’ll do…

• You will supervise and implement the Company Construction Program ensuring that each job-site utilizes the construction rules, practices and policies

• You will represent the company and interfaces with customer, developers, property owners, utilities, and municipalities

• You will coordinate, lead, and provide assistance to crews, subcontractors and other interested parties

• You will install and bury cable along right of ways safely. Will also be working on personal property installing fiber or copper drops to homeowners.

• You will use mechanized equipment such as backhoe, trucks, plows, trenchers and manual equipment such as shovels, rack, pick axe, posthole diggers to install buried cable, fiber, and placement of pedestals or grade level vaults along right of ways.

• You will organize, plan, multi-task, prioritize and re-prioritize daily workload and work with minimum supervision and the ability to meet deadlines, establish deadlines, and to prioritize deadlines while communicating effectively and professionally with all staff.

• You will ensure that construction schedules are met on time.

• You will follow all safety guidelines. Is alert and aware of surroundings and working hazards. Wears hardhat, safety vest, safety glasses, gloves, approved safety footwear and seatbelt.

• You will ensures all Corporate Policies and Procedures are followed.

Qualifications

Who we are looking for…

• You have 1-3 year's minimum experience within the Underground Utility Construction Industry but will train right applicant

• You have working knowledge of the telecommunications industry standards, practices and regulations pertaining to the construction of fiber optic and copper cable outside plant facilities

• You have working knowledge of aerial and underground construction methods and engineering requirements

• You have experience in working through all types of weather, including inclement weather

• You are able to lift, climb, and carry weight up to 80lbs

• You are a self starter

• You have effective communication skills

• You are authorized to work in the United States for this company

• You are able to travel and work extended hours; overtime and weekends as needed

• You have a valid driver's license with a minimum of 2 years driving experience

Benefits and Company Summary

What you will get

• Competitive Pay

• Weekly Paychecks

• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Plans

• Health Saving Accounts

• Paid Parental Leave

• Education/Tuition Reimbursement

• Company Discounts

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Retirement Savings Plan (401K) with company matching

• Stock Purchase Plan

• Short & Long Term Disability

• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance

• Paid Time Off

• Company Paid Holidays (Includes Thanksgiving and the day after)+Floating Holiday

• Company vehicle and gas card(Based on job function)

  Who we are...

Established more than fifty years ago in the town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Lamberts was perfectly poised to become a leading contributor to the growth of the East Coast. Now, with locations all across America’s Atlantic region, we remain one of the top utility contractors keeping the area’s communication and utility infrastructure strong.

Our expertise allows us to take on almost any type of installation or maintenance project, from long-distance fiber optics to joint trench construction. We also fulfill facility-based services, performing plant wiring installations for commercial and educational campuses. Whether it’s directional boring or pole line placement, there’s no utility construction task outside the range of our capabilities.

This proficiency has cultivated our reputation as one of the most prestigious providers of utility construction. Being a contractor in demand among both clients and hopeful employees, we’re committed to upholding the highest standards of work quality and safety. Our methods ensure that our workers are both protected and efficient, enabling us to maintain long-standing relationships with staff and customers alike.

EEO

Our Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind including, based on disability and protected veteran status. The Company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company's policy to comply with all applicable state and federal laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Please visit the following URL to view the EEO is the Law poster and the Supplement. (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm)

The Company also does not consider criminal convictions to be an absolute bar to employment and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Applicants applying for positions in Illinois are not required to disclose arrests or sealed or expunged records of convictions.