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Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Install, set up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.

  
Realistic
  
Investigative
  
Conventional
   
Below Average Outlook
   
$61.1k careers
   
Train for up to 1 year

What is this job like?

  • Demonstrate equipment to customers and explain its use, responding to any inquiries or complaints.
  • Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
  • Perform database verifications, using computers.
  • Examine telephone transmission facilities to determine requirements for new or additional telephone services.
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Maintain computer and manual records pertaining to facilities and equipment.
  • Route and connect cables and lines to switches, switchboard equipment, and distributing frames, using wire-wrap guns or soldering irons to connect wires to terminals.
  • Remove loose wires and other debris after work is completed.
  • Diagnose and correct problems from remote locations, using special switchboards to find the sources of problems.
  • Clean switches and replace contact points, using vacuum hoses, solvents, and hand tools.
  • Review manufacturer's instructions, manuals, technical specifications, building permits, and ordinances to determine communication equipment requirements and procedures.
  • Inspect equipment on a regular basis to ensure proper functioning.
  • Repair or replace faulty equipment, such as defective and damaged telephones, wires, switching system components, and associated equipment.
  • Analyze test readings, computer printouts, and trouble reports to determine equipment repair needs and required repair methods.
  • Designate cables available for use.
  • Place intercept circuits on terminals to handle vacant lines in central office installations.
  • Note differences in wire and cable colors so that work can be performed correctly.
  • Communicate with bases, using telephones or two-way radios to receive instructions or technical advice, or to report equipment status.
  • Determine viability of sites through observation, and discuss site locations and construction requirements with customers.
  • Install telephone station equipment, such as intercommunication systems, transmitters, receivers, relays, and ringers, and related apparatus, such as coin collectors, telephone booths, and switching-key equipment.
  • Enter codes needed to correct electronic switching system programming.
  • Perform routine maintenance on equipment, including adjusting and lubricating components and painting worn or exposed areas.
  • Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.
  • Test connections to ensure that power supplies are adequate and that communications links function.
  • Remove and remake connections to change circuit layouts, following work orders or diagrams.
  • Remove and replace plug-in circuit equipment.
  • Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
  • Perform routine maintenance on equipment, including adjusting and lubricating components and painting worn or exposed areas.
  • Perform routine maintenance on equipment, including adjusting and lubricating components and painting worn or exposed areas.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
  • Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.
  • Dig holes or trenches as necessary for equipment installation and access.
  • Install updated software and programs that maintain existing software or provide requested features, such as time-correlated call routing.
  • Run wires between components and to outside cable systems, connecting them to wires from telephone poles or underground cable accesses.
  • Adjust or modify equipment to enhance equipment performance or to respond to customer requests.
  • Refer to manufacturers' manuals to obtain maintenance instructions pertaining to specific malfunctions.
  • Program computerized switches and switchboards to provide requested features.
  • Collaborate with other workers to locate and correct malfunctions.
  • Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
  • Drive crew trucks to and from work areas.
  • Climb poles and ladders, use truck-mounted booms, and enter areas such as manholes and cable vaults to install, maintain, or inspect equipment.
  • Provide input into the design and manufacturing of new equipment.
  • Address special issues or situations, such as illegal or unauthorized use of equipment, or cases of electrical or acoustic shock.
  • Request support from technical service centers when on-site procedures fail to solve installation or maintenance problems.
  • Measure distances from landmarks to identify exact installation sites for equipment.

Local Wage Data

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Hourly Wage

$31,130

$61,060

$80,520

$14.97

$29.36

$38.71