Telecommunications Engineering Technician jobs in Fort Smith, AR

For over seven decades investor-owned utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and others have entrusted their electrical construction and maintenance needs to Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc. (Elliot).

Elliot is a full-service electrical contractor specializing in overhead and underground distribution, transmission, substations, lighting, traffic signaling, utility locating and industrial/commercial services.

Job Description

The Street Light Technician will be expected to trouble shoot street lights and run maintenance, change streetlight heads while working in buckets or off pole, replace overhead and underground light wire, and operate equipment including digger and bucket trucks, mini excavators, and trenching equipment. Applicants should be comfortable working multiple light circuits on busy roads and highways, climbing poles – or be willing to learn, pouring concrete, and handling and installing product into ditches per consumer specifications. This position includes hand digging to various depths due to congestion or in areas where equipment cannot access.

Qualifications

• Experience in street lighting systems and electrical utilities
• Willing to travel when necessary
• Must have, or be eligible to obtain, a Class A CDL

Benefits/Culture

Today, we are listed among Engineering News-Records Top 150 Specialty Contracting firms. Our success is based on our customers' confidence in us; the loyalty, hard work and performance of our people; and the traditions with which Mr. Davis H. Elliot began the company in 1946. We understand that having the best team requires people being treated like family. Some of the benefits we offer our team includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance w/ additional Voluntary Life Insurance
• 401K w/ company match
• Employee Stock Ownership Program
• State and Federally accredited Lineman Apprenticeship program
• Paid Vacation
• Servant Leadership Training
• Uniforms and PPE provided