The role
The purpose of this role is to undertake Lightning Fibre’s full fibre installations in a professional, personable and timely manner.
Benefits we can offer you include
- 22 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increases by 1 day/year up to 27 days (pro rata).
- A day off for your birthday in addition to annual leave.
- Employee referral scheme – refer a friend for a job and receive a reward if they are successful.
- Free parking.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee discount on Lightning Fibre broadband.
- Healthcare cash plan including reimbursement towards dental, optical and physiotherapy etc.
- Company maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay.
- Life assurance policy.
Key task and responsibilities
- Full fibre installations from the fibre pot into the Lightning Fibre equipment on premise.
- Fibre blowing.
- Fibre splicing (aerial nodes, UG joints, customer premise splicing).
- Fibre cabling, rodding, roping fibre to premise.
- Working at heights (poles, lifts and ladders).
- Positive representation of Lightning Fibre to the public and build rapport with customers whilst onsite.
- Provide install progress/whereabouts updates.
- Diagnose fibre faults.
- Health & Safety compliance.
- Fill Risk Assessments with attention to detail, real time feedback.
Skills and competencies required
- Essential: NRSWA, Street Works Signing, Lighting & Guarding accreditation.
- Essential: Smart awards accreditations, PIA relevant.
- Essential: full UK driving licence.
- A team player, highly organised, confident and good communicator.
- Time management for daily workload.
- Ability to use own initiative where appropriate.
- A dynamic mindset, dexterity in areas where help is needed.
- Right first-time accuracy with all aspects of work.
Who we are
Lightning Fibre was established in 2018. We are a leading local alternative network provider of full fibre broadband in East Sussex. We are headquartered in Polegate and have an existing broadband network in East Sussex. Our broadband network can supply our standard installed customers with anything up to 10 Gigabits in both download and uploads.
We are a community-oriented network operator, whose aim is to significantly upgrade our region’s broadband infrastructure, providing local jobs and keeping local money in the areas we serve. We are a vital enabler to grow our digital local economy, thereby creating further quality jobs. Lightning Fibre has bold plans for growth and development.