Telecommunications equipment installation and cable television service technicians

Telephone Equipment Technician

• Install, arrange, remove and maintain telephone equipment, wiring and associated hardware.
• Test installed telephone systems to locate transmission faults.
• Repair or replace defective and damaged telephones, wire and associated equipment.

• Install electromechanical, analog and digital trunking systems, circuits and equipment in telecommunications central offices and switching centres.
• Inspect and test trunking systems, circuits and equipment.
• Analyze test results and adjust, change or repair switching system, network, associated equipment and software.

• Operate computerized testing systems to conduct service tests on customer lines and equipment.
• Determine the nature, cause and location of service trouble.
• Dispatch appropriate repair personnel.
• Complete test reports and maintain test and service records.
• May assist repair personnel to test lines, circuits and systems, isolate and clear cable faults and verify records.

• Install, remove and maintain various telecommunications equipment and related systems such as telex and facsimile machines, teletypewriters, mobile radios, cellular telephones, pagers and other telecommunications equipment.
• Configure operating systems and install software for access to the Internet.
• Inspect and test operation of telecommunications equipment.
• Diagnose and locate equipment faults, and adjust, replace or repair telecommunications equipment.

• Communicate with subscribers and company personnel to determine work assignments.
• Connect, disconnect and relocate cable outlets, install splitters, converters, decoders, terminals, digital boxes and satellite equipment, and install other cable or wireless modems, routers and software to enable Internet access at subscriber's premises.
• Inspect, test and repair cable and satellite television signals and associated equipment at subscriber's premises.