Smithville is looking for a Construction Technician to join our team in French Lick, Indiana! Construction Technicians safely use a variety of hand and power tools, as well as machinery and equipment, to install, maintain, and repair services for our customers. The Construction Technician completes construction tasks for the company’s copper and fiber-optic plants while successfully meeting project deadlines.
This role provides consistent income; 40 or more hours per week, year-round, with steady pay increases!

View a short video of a day in the life of a Construction Technician here

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Safely operate equipment such as: trucks, tractors, mini-excavators, boring machines, trenchers, sneakers (vibratory plows), fiber blowers, forklifts, lawnmowers, and other equipment.
• Climb utility poles and lift equipment weighing up to 45 lbs. (Pole Climbing training will be provided)
• Use a variety of hand tools and machinery including shovels, picks, and various power tools, to complete assignments in a safe and controlled manner.
• Manually locate buried utility lines.
• Place and maintain cable/fiber within underground conduit system.
• Use testing equipment to check for gas in utility access holes and clean water and debris from utility access holes.
• Submit time reporting tasks using a laptop computer on a daily basis.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service skills in each interaction with internal customers, external customers, and vendors.
• Participation in rotating on-call schedule.

WHAT YOU NEED

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Class A CDL license with a safe driving record
• Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English
• Construction experience, including working knowledge of heavy equipment and safety requirements for operating machinery
• Competence with hand and power tools required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and surroundings
• Close, distance, color, and depth vision required
• Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen, background check and DOT physical

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Steady 40 hours per week; may work overtime, evenings, and/or weekends as needed to meet critical deadlines, respond to problems, and ensure customer needs are met. Work is mostly completed outdoors, exposed to changing weather conditions, but may also be performed indoors in a climate-controlled office environment, indoors in a non-temperature-controlled environment, or outdoors in an enclosed vehicle or temporary shelter.
• Exposure to the following should be expected: vibration (operating jackhammer, impact wrench, etc.), improperly illuminated or awkward and confining workspaces, and working above ground level when the possibility of falling exists (ladders, roof-tops, bucket trucks, scaffolding, etc.)
• Specific vision abilities required include: close vision, distance vision, and color vision.
• Often handling, feeling, walking, standing, bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting, reaching at, below, or above shoulder level, pulling, talking.
• Sometimes climbing and lifting up to 45 pounds.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Company paid: Dental coverage, Long- Term Disability Insurance, Group Life Insurance
• Medical, Prescription Drug and Vision plans available
• Additional options for Term Life Insurance, Short Term Disability Coverage, and other voluntary options
• Health Savings Account with generous annual company contributions to HSA
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match
• Paid sick leave and vacation
• Paid holidays
• Paid training
• Discounted company products and services

WHO WE ARE
For more than 100 years, Smithville has been and is a locally grown, family-owned, cutting-edge, live-where-we-work, stand-by-our-products, part-of-the-neighborhood, wildly-Hoosier technology company in the heart of Southern Indiana. We provide the best technology services without sending you across the globe for support. We love our services and Indiana.

Review of employment applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Smithville is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.