Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

What Does a Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers Do?

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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Demonstrate equipment to customers and explain its use, responding to any inquiries or complaints.
• 2Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
• 3Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
• 4Climb poles and ladders, use truck-mounted booms, and enter areas such as manholes and cable vaults to install, maintain, or inspect equipment.
• 5Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.
• 6Run wires between components and to outside cable systems, connecting them to wires from telephone poles or underground cable accesses.
• 7Test connections to ensure that power supplies are adequate and that communications links function.
• 8Note differences in wire and cable colors so that work can be performed correctly.

Required Skills

• Critical Thinking
• Active Listening
• Apache Struts
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Cisco IOS
• Firewall software
• Fluke ClearSight Analyzer
• Fluke Networks Fluke TechEXPERT
• Fluke Networks TechAdvisor Field Access System
• Geographic information system GIS systems
• IBM Domino
• Microsoft Excel

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers Salary