Aerial Foreman - Gudenkauf, a Congruex company

Job Title:                    Aerial Foreman
Business Unit:          Gudenkauf, a Congruex Company
Reports To:               Project Manger
Employment Status:Full-time, Non-Exempt (Hourly)
Primary Location:     Northern Virginia

We will determine salary based on skills and experience in relation to the function of the role, as well as equity to any other employees in the same or similar role.

Company Profile:
Networks Built Better.
Congruex is a multi-national organization that specializes in broadband network construction and engineering.  We support some of the largest service providers in the United States with a footprint that extends across the nation.  Our turn-key design and build solutions allow our customers to deliver more data, more bandwidth, and ultimately support more devices for their end users.
Our diverse self-perform capabilities allow us to deliver high quality telecommunications and utility solutions with efficiency as one combined end-to-end business.

Congruex is a growing collection of subsidiary operating units.  Our unified vision is to be the nation’s largest end-to-end provider of network design, engineering, construction, and maintenance for broadband operators.  We are One Congruex.

Our Mission & Values
It is our mission to satisfy our customers by providing the expertise, technology, and resources necessary to build better networks.

Congruex is committed to the overall health, wellness, and safety of our people.  We support diversity, inclusion, and the right to live freely with mutual respect.

These values are ingrained in our core values of GRIT.

At Congruex, GRIT is an acronym for guts, reliability, improvement, and teamwork – having the GUTS to do the right thing, being RELIABLE to deliver what we promise, IMPROVING ourselves every day, and embracing TEAMWORK together as One Congruex.

Gudenkauf, a Congruex Company

Gudenkauf is a diversified telecommunications, utility and systems integration solution provider with the personnel, equipment, expertise, and experience to deliver even in the toughest and most complicated conditions. We offer a variety of services from outside plant construction, fiber optic splicing and testing, utility locating, intelligent transportation systems, gas line cathodic protection, and emergency restoration services. We have grown to service the states of Ohio, West Virginia, along with expanding into Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.

Job Summary:
We are looking for an Aerial foreman to join our growing team.

Job Responsibilities (Including, but not limited to):

• Placement of telephone poles and anchors
• Operating equipment such as bucket truck, posthole diggers and other handheld tools
• Performs aerial tasks such as new cable installs, pole transfers, strand building, cable hanging, lashing, etc.
• Perform construction work such as digging holes, placing cable, pulling cable in various types of conduit systems and open excavations
• Climb utility poles and/or use aerial lift truck to place cables on poles
• Ensures all installation work is done according to quality standards, always complying with proper safety standards/procedures. 
• Understand field prints to determine what work is to be performed, in addition to awareness of issues and how to work through them
• Work in, on and around customer’s property while following company policies and maintaining the highest level of professionalism towards any customer and their property
• Directly responsible for all vehicles and equipment that is assigned to you
• Supervise employees
• Invoicing projects according to company invoice standard

Required Skills & Qualifications: 
 

• Work efficiently from a bucket truck
• Frequent climbing up/down utility poles with ladders or lag gaffs
• Previous experience working from blueprints, and specifications
• Use of manual tools such as shovels, posthole diggers and other handheld tools
• Knowledge of telecommunications industry both aerial and underground construction
• Ability to travel
• Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs, moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• Lifting, pushing, pulling maneuvering of materials weighing 50lbs-100lbs. 
• Must poses a Class A CDL
• Must poses previous management experience

Technical

• Must have the ability to utilize email
• Must have the ability to upload photos via an app

Desired Skills & Qualifications: 

• OSHA 10
• OSHA 30
• First Aid
• Spanish speaking is a huge plus

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All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” employment relationship.