Nationwide telecommunications infrastructure construction and engineering
Ervin Cable Construction operates a 1,000+ person construction and engineering business built on field deployment at scale — 80 field offices across 30+ states executing fiber, aerial, and underground telecom projects. The tech stack skews heavily toward CAD (AutoCAD, MicroStation), project management (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project), and geospatial tools (ArcGIS, PostGIS, FME), reflecting a traditional construction-operations-led organization managing complex site logistics. Current hiring velocity is accelerating (283 roles posted in last 30 days), concentrated almost entirely in construction and engineering roles, while pain points cluster around project accuracy, safety incident reduction, and resource availability—signals of operational maturity under strain from demand growth.
Notable leadership hires: Lead Safety
Founded in 1980, Ervin Cable Construction is a public company delivering turnkey telecommunications network deployment across the United States. The company has built or upgraded over 100,000 miles of infrastructure in recent years and maintains 80 field offices across 30+ states. Services span aerial and fiber optic construction, underground deployment, microtrenching, and full-service design and engineering. The operational footprint is large: 1,000–5,000 employees organized primarily around construction crews, with smaller engineering, operations, finance, and logistics functions supporting field execution. Active projects focus on outside plant network design, fiber route development, and safety systems implementation.
Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project for scheduling; AutoCAD and MicroStation for design; ArcGIS and PostGIS for geospatial routing and site planning; FME for data transformation across CAD and GIS workflows.
Sturgis, Kentucky. The company operates 80 field offices across 30+ states and was founded in 1980.
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