Cable Installer

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
- or equivalent experience
**Tasks**:

- Install, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electrical distribution and transmission systems
- Erect and maintain steel, wood or concrete poles, towers and guy wires
- Splice, solder and insulate conductors and related wiring to connect power distribution and transmission networks
- Write maintenance reports
- Inspect and test overhead and underground power lines and cables and auxiliary equipment
- Instruct apprentices
- Install and maintain street lighting systems
- Read and interpret blueprints
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Ensure health and safety regulations are followed
- Climb ladders or operate hydraulic buckets
- Communicate with other workers to co-ordinate the preparation and completion of work assignments
- Work in confined spaces to install power lines and cables and associated equipment
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Team player
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 38 to 42 hours per week