Job Description:

• 1) Assists CABLE SPLICER to join ends of multiple-conductor cables used in telephone and telegraph communication systems and electric-power transmitting equipment by performing routine duties: Positions splicer's cart, opens manholes, hangs splicer's platform in position, and supplies splicer with tools and equipment.

• 2) Tends small gasoline engine to pump water from underground conduit tunnels or to supply fresh air to worker in tunnel.

• 3) Cuts lead tubing with hacksaw to form covering over spliced cables.

• 4) Tends gasoline heater to melt lead and paraffin.

• 5) Assists CABLE SPLICER in boiling out wet cables and affixing cables in tunnel racks or to poles.

• 6) May pull cables through ducts and conduits.

• 7) Performs other duties as described under HELPER Master Title.