Description

Primary Function: 

Perform erection, installation, demolition, maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and modification tasks on communication guyed towers and antenna systems and subsystems located around the world.  Must have demonstrated experience with communication guyed towers, antennas, and similar structures. The candidate must be able to demonstrate they have experience:

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Installs, erects, maintains, repairs, removes, or retrofits guyed towers and antenna systems sometimes under adverse conditions (e.g., inclement weather, remote sites, etc.) using safety equipment and hand, power, cranes and specialty tools.

2. Must be able to read and understand construction drawings and tower assembly drawings.

3. Maintain applicable work, safety and quality certifications required by industry.

4. Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Job Requirements:

•  Minimum 5 years’ experience in guyed tower rigging and erection.

•  Experience in using digital theodolite transit to capture verticality of guyed towers.

•  Experience in using Dillon quick check and digital dynamometers to measure tensions on various    sizes of guy wires supporting the guyed structure.

•  Install connectors on coaxial cables and connect such cables to antennas.

•  Install coaxial grounding kits on coax and properly source to tower ground bar.

•  Demonstrated expertise in construction skills, rigging, safety and general industry knowledge.

•  Demonstrate experience with OSHA and customer-specific safety procedures and guidelines. Examples would be TIA-1019, TIA-222G, ASME B30.7, and OSHA 29 CFR 1926.552 and OSHA 29 CFR 1926.553.

•  Must have the ability to climb guyed towers up to 300ft, ability to lift up to 75 lbs., and capable of working up to 12 hours on occasion.

•  Ability to travel 100% of the time to various locations around the world (roughly 2 – 6 Months per location; Durations may vary by location).

•  Ability to obtain a passport.

•  Ability to obtain a NACI-Tier 1 clearance and background check upon hired.

Work Conditions:

Employee will be working in & outside in various environments. Employee will be expected to travel and pack for weather for locations where specific attire is necessary. 

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Summary

Long Wave Inc. is a Small Business defense contractor headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK. We are an industry leader in the installation and maintenance of Very Low Frequency/Low Frequency/High Frequency (VLF/LF/HF) communication systems, software development, software, and hardware installation, Nuclear Command and Control Communication (NC3), Contract Support Services (CSS), and systems engineering. We have grown into an agile company based on experience, trust, and integrity. Long Wave is the best Strategic Communications Small Business in America. As a leader in services and solutions, software, and engineering products, we make certain that our abilities are as diverse and unique as our customers.

As a government contractor, we specialize in:

•     Engineering
•     Tower and Antenna Maintenance and Installation
•     Software Development
•     Software and Hardware Installation
•     Operations and Maintenance of Government Facilities
•     Information Technology and Cybersecurity Services
•     Simulation and Training
•     Program Management Services for Various Agencies and Clients

Staffed with retired military, senior engineers, and support personnel from industry, we have helped to design and implement some of the United States Military’s most critical and innovative communications technologies. Our subject matter experts have hundreds of years of combined experience operating, maintaining, and modernizing communications suites around the world and our software developers have decades of experience analyzing, architecting, developing, testing, and deploying software solutions for the United States Navy and commercial customers.

Our military men and women around the world count on Long Wave to provide services for many of today’s modern military communication programs. Some of our accomplishments include:

•     The Clarinet Merlin Receiving System (CMRS), a shore-based communications system that continuously monitors emergency transmissions from buoys launched from United States Navy submarines;
•     A Command and Control (C2) Dashboard, which provides databases for operational and maintenance support for the United States Navy’s Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) leadership;
•     Long Wave developed Trainers and Stimulators that provide mission rehearsal capability, which can completely simulate a communication suite with integrated voice and data communications.

Long Wave is proud to have been supporting the United States Military since 1995.