Job details
- JobBank Id: 41832529
- JobSeekr Id: 254494
- Telecommunication Line Technician
- Niagara Falls, ON
- Full time
- Maple AV Inc
- $31.00
- 32.5 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
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Secondary (high) school graduation certificate - or equivalent experience
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
On the road
Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Underground
Work setting
- Installation
- Maintenance
- Cable television company
- Remote location
- Repair
- Telecommunications company
- Telephone company
- Testing
- Willing to relocate
- Commercial
- Military base or location
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment
- Test equipment to locate transmission faults
- Install trunking systems, circuits and equipment
- Instruct apprentices
- Complete and maintain test and service reports
- Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
- Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
- Connect, disconnect and relocate cable outlets
- Maintain and repair aerial and underground transmission systems
- Repair or replace faulty cables, power suppliers and amplifiers
- Splice, join and connect wires
- Repair or replace defective telephone equipment
- Perform minor repairs to equipment
- Install underground wiring and cables
- Diagnose and locate circuit, component and equipment faults
- Design and construct low voltage (30 to 750V) multiphase service for single or multimeter installations
- Work in a multidisciplinary environment
Experience and specialization
Communication protocols
- RS-232 / RS-422
Computer and technology knowledge
- Publish It
Equipment and machinery experience
- Coaxial line
- Fibre optics
- Single line
- Copper
- Aerial and underground cable lines
- Amplifiers
- Converters
- Splitters
- Trunking system
Area of specialization
- Audio/audio-visual
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Physically demanding
Own tools/equipment
- Tools
Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Excellent oral communication
- Initiative
- Analytical
- Time management