Entry Communications Technician

Job Posting

Title:

Entry Communications Technician – Hiring Department:
Enterprise Technology – University Data Center – Position Open To:
All Applicants – Weekly Scheduled

Hours:

40 – FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt – Earliest

Start Date:

Immediately – Position Duration:
Expected to Continue –

Location:

AUSTIN, TX

Job Details:
General Notes This position provides life/work balance with typically a 40-hour work week and travel limited to training (e.g., conferences/courses). Enterprise Technology is dedicated to supporting the mission of the University of Texas at Austin of unlocking potential and preparing future leaders of the state. Your skills will make a difference. You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for research and the work you do will make a difference in the lives of our students, faculty and staff.

If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working for our campus. The University of Texas at Austin and Enterprise Technology provide an outstanding benefits package to our staff. Those benefits include:

• Competitive health benefits (Employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
• Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
• Teachers Retirement System of Texas (a defined benefit retirement plan)
• Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs:
  Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
• Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
• Training and conference opportunities
• Tuition assistance
• Athletic ticket discounts
• Access to UT Austin’s libraries and museums
• Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Capital metro buses with staff

For more details, please see: andMust be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship. This position requires you to maintain internet service and a mobile phone with voice and data plans to be used when required for work.

This position will need to provide entry level skills for the installation, repair and maintenance of telephone equipment.

• Creates pathway and pulls wires for data, voice, security purposes.
• Responsible for the installation and routine or emergency maintenance and/or repair of telecom cabling and network equipment. Driving university owned vehicles to job sites will be required for this position. Maintain acceptable driver rating as established in Policy UTS
  157.
• Reads schematic diagrams to install telecommunication wires and equipment.
• Maintains physical and online data records on Pinnacle and other databases.
• Perform other related functions as assigned.

• High school diploma or GED.
• 1 year of experience installing telecommunications horizontal cabling.
• Experience using Microsoft windows software, basic computer skills.
• Class “c” driver’s license.

• 3 or more years’ experience installing horizontal telecommunications cabling.
• Experience installing wireless access points.
• Experience in a telecommunications or construction field working at the University of Texas at Austin.

This job requires a class “C” operator’s driver’s license. The applicant selected must provide a current three-year driving record from the current state of residence. If not currently a Texas resident, a Texas driver’s license must be obtained within 30 days of becoming a Texas resident. The driving record will be evaluated to determine eligibility to drive a university owned vehicle.

$44,000 + depending on qualifications

• May work around standard office conditions
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
• Use of manual dexterity
• May work in all weather conditions
• May work in extreme temperatures
• May work in chemical fumes
• May work around standard office conditions
• May work around electrical and mechanical hazards
• Climbing of stairs
• Climbing of ladders
• Lifting and Moving

Monday – Friday 7:30am-4pm, Occasional overtime and/or on-call may be required for this position

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be…