Installation & Repair Field Technician

The compensation range for this job is: $45.31 - $51.03

At Alaska Communications, we’re committed to putting our team first, always being customer focused, having a can‑do attitude, owning our results and always acting with integrity. This is what we hire for and what our team members exhibit each day. Want to make an impact with us? We are unable to support remote international applicants or routinely sponsor work visas.

Field Technicians duties are to install and maintain all Alaska Communications services, facilities, and products in assigned work areas, remote and non‑remote. This is including but not limited to terrestrial (buried and aerial) copper and fiber optic plant, wireless and microwave towers, facilities such as remote nodes, access points, and cross‑connects.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement:
Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions listed below.

• Complete service orders, repair orders, capital work orders, and maintenance work.
• Complete line station transfers and cuts.
• Install and qualify data cabling to the current specifications.
• Install all business and residential station wiring and establish the demarcation point.
• Make preventive maintenance inspections to determine potential deterioration in service.
• Install aerial and underground drops and perform underground drop location.
• Splice to plant as required.
• Correct deficiencies in wiring by splicing or replacing distribution, house cables, station wiring, or underground, as well as aerial drops.

Education and experience required:
Must have a high school diploma and possess and maintain a driver’s license. Four (4) years of training in a relevant telephone apprentice program or equivalent experience leading to journeyman‑level performance in this specialty, with two (2) years’ experience in the skills and work this position will typically perform.

Skills:

ability to operate necessary equipment, read and interpret schematics and diagrams, and climb and perform work functions on poles and to differentiate colors.

This position requires possession and maintenance of an Alaska driver’s license, a valid certificate of medical examination (medical card), and passing a drug and alcohol background check.

Additional requirements:

external applicants must successfully pass a pre‑employment suitability assessment and either a DOT or non‑DOT drug test, depending on the position.

We hope you’ll join us as we change lives through technology. For more than 120 years, our team has served Alaskans with critical telecommunication services. As technology becomes increasingly woven into our lives, we’re focused on delivering world‑class connectivity solutions to our customers, from family homes to statewide enterprises. With career opportunities across the Last Frontier, our team takes pride in serving customers and giving back to our local communities.

Exciting challenges are in front of us. We’re actively building Alaska’s fastest internet with fiber to the home. In rural Alaska, we’re building a state‑of‑the‑art network to bridge the digital divide for communities that have gone unserved for too long.