Job Description:

• 1) Builds and repairs concrete underground vaults and manholes, and installs ducts to provide installation and maintenance facilities for underground power cables: Installs sheeting, shoring, and bracing for excavation.

• 2) Builds wooden forms and erects steel reinforcing for concrete vaults and manholes.

• 3) Directs workers engaged in pouring concrete into forms, and removes forms after concrete has set.

• 4) Installs brackets and braces, and cuts apertures required for installation of electric equipment and ducts.

• 5) Lays drainpipe and connects it to sewer system.

• 6) Forces air through ducts to test for obstructions, using air compressor.

• 7) Demolishes or trims vaults and manholes, using pneumatic tools, working in proximity to high-voltage electric cables and equipment.

• 8) Cuts and lays tile or fiber ducts, using portable power saw and grinder and brickmason's handtools.

• 9) Cuts, threads, bends, and installs metal conduit.

• 10) May lay precast concrete ducts.