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Temporary Outside Plant Technician
AT&T Services INC · 🇺🇸 Oakwood, Georgia
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 393 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 80 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 393 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 80 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Provides consistent, respectful and professional internal/external customer care. Initializes and maintains an open line of communications to ensure all customers receive the highest level of customer satisfaction possible; Works with heavy duty power equipment and small tools in the installation, repair and maintenance of outside plant facilities; Loads necessary tools and heavy equipment onto trucks or trailers; Receives work assignments and instructions from supervisor and/or through the use of a computer access terminal; Operates power equipment such as compressors, pumps, blowers, etc., and hydraulic aerial lifts (buckets) and ladders mounted on trucks; Performs construction work such as digging holes, placing poles, placing cable, air pipe and inner duct in various types of conduit systems and open excavations. Unreels, pulls, and strings wire strand and cable from pole to pole; pole to buildings, etc.; Determines differences between wire and cable colors; Connects wires and cables to terminals and attaches or detaches various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, buildings or poles; Splices and tests PIC and non-pressurized cable and makes appropriate enclosures; Uses test equipment to check for toxic and explosive gas in manholes, and may have to empty water and other debris from manholes; Dismantles, moves or removes aerial, underground or building wire, cable, associated equipment and hardware; Reviews and interprets work orders, work prints and Company practices; Works outside in all kinds of weather; Climbs poles, ladders and enters tunnels, buildings, trenches, crawl spaces and manholes to place telephone cables and equipment; Follows established safety procedures. Must be able to safely utilize equipment resources to perform specified physical job duties, i.e., satisfies manufacturer's specifications for operation or use of equipment including weight limitations; Lifts and moves loads up to 120 pounds; Works with fiber optic cable from the distribution terminal to the customer premises, color coded and tone identified wires in the connection of wires and cables to other telephone equipment, and in connecting cable pairs together; Splices and tests non-pressurized cables in aerial, underground, buried, building configurations, multiple conductor cable, coaxial cable and also fiber optic cable from the distribution terminal to the customer premises. Performs tap in energizing count; identifies conductors in adjoining cable sections, according to diagrams and specifications by means of test signal identified wires or fiber optic test equipment; Closes splices by enclosing with bolted on waterproof case, thermally applied shrinkable sleeving; Repairs, rearranges (cable throws, etc), routines and maintains cable plant, fiber optic plant and channel cards associated with the digital loop carrier equipment or the distribution terminals; Uses test equipment to isolate conductor faults or identify defective or broken fibers drops; Turns up, routines, troubleshoots and maintains digital carrier equipment channel cards and maintains light wave and metallic terminals; Uses electrical instruments such Cable Locators, Resistance Fault Locators, and Open Fault Locators to verify and determine defects in the cable, conductors and wire. Also measuring test sets and signal generators to verify and determine defective carrier equipment in subscriber/digital carrier systems. Our Outside Plant Technician earn between $15 - $46 hourly . With our amazing wage opportunities, our average starting earnings begin at $39,390 per year. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training. Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits: • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage •