Job Description:

• 1) Installs and repairs telephone and telegraph lines, poles, and related equipment, according to diagrams, and using electrician's handtools: Digs holes, using power auger or shovel, hoists poles upright in holes, using truck-mounted winch, and fills and tamps holes, using cement, earth, and tamping device.

• 2) Ascends poles or enters tunnels and sewers to cut in feeder lines, attach appliances, such as terminal boxes and repeaters, and repair or replace defective lines and auxiliary equipment.

• 3) Unreels and strings lines from pole to pole and from pole to building, installs hardware, such as conduits and insulators, and attaches appliances on lines.

• 4) Pulls lines through ducts by hand or with use of winch.

• 5) When assisting in installation and removal of plant equipment, such as callboxes and clocks, in city locations, may be designated Line Installer-Repairer, City.

• 6) When patrolling telephone lines between communities, may be designated Toll-Line Repairer.

• 7) When patrolling telephone or telegraph lines between two established points or in designated areas, may be designated Line Maintainer, Section.