Communication Systems Technician

Overview

State

Title:

Professional Services Specialist 3

Bargaining Unit: AFT

Employment Type:

35 hours per week/Full-time

Internal salary: range 21/$63,833.23 - $

External salary: range 21/$63,833.23 - $73,415.99

UNION POSITIONS: The internal salary range is used for applicants who are current NJ state employees with underlying classified status for promotional calculations who meet the requirements below. The external salary range is used for candidates who are not NJ state employees who meet the requirements below.

Founded in 1855, TCNJ offers a highly personalized and collaborative liberal arts education with over 7,400 undergraduates and 700 graduate students. The college is consistently ranked among the top comprehensive colleges in the nation, offering small classes, a 13:1 student-faculty ratio, and an immersive living-learning experience. With a 4-year graduation rate ranked #1 in New Jersey and #9 among U.S. public institutions, TCNJ is a model for public higher education.

The Office of Enterprise Infrastructure offers essential networking, systems administration, and customer-focused services to ensure the efficient and cost-effective use of communication and computing technologies by faculty, staff, and students ormation Technology/Enterprise Infrastructure provides campus-wide support for administrative and academic computing applications and services. This position is within the Enterprise Infrastructure networking group, which is responsible for installing, maintaining, and configuring campus network equipment as well as the data, telephone, and CATV cable systems.

• Troubleshoot and/or repair data and voice connections in academic/administrative offices, classrooms, residence halls and exterior locations.
• Maintain and update documentation for campus cabling and networking infrastructure.
• Participate actively in a team environment for the design development and coordination of wiring projects for both the inside & outside cabling plant.
• Assist network staff in equipment installation and troubleshooting data networking problems.
• Assess and troubleshoot multi-pair communications cable infrastructure for both inside and outside plant installations.
• Assists in troubleshooting Cable TV service and signal problems on trunk and distribution plant.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required

• Requires four years of practical experience installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining a multi-building copper voice/data/CATV cabling infrastructure and racked equipment and cabling systems. Such systems include feed, riser, and station distribution cables. In particular, this includes demonstrating the following:
• The application of technical standards and practices dictating the termination and certification of UTP and coaxial station cabling.
• The application of local, site-specific design and operations standards for infrastructure systems.
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing UTP and coaxial station cabling.
• Experience testing, troubleshooting, and repairing feed and riser cables.
• Experience applying EIA/TIA standards for communications interconnects in voice and data applications.
• Knowledge of communications cable installation within renovation and new construction spaces. Skilled in termination and testing of various twisted-pair and coaxial communications media. Ability to read and interpret schematics, floor plans, and/or construction drawings. Able to coordinate, certify, and document communications cabling installations.
• Knowledgeable in using testing tools and apparatus (such as multimeters, time-domain reflectometers, intelligent network cable testers, etc.). Skilled in interpreting results from to assess the quality, condition, and/or performance of twisted-pair and coaxial communications media in both active (connected) and disconnected circuits. Ability to select the proper testing method and apparatus required for the application. Experience working in a mixed voice/data termination installation.
• Ability to interpret connector and cable schematics and apply this information to the troubleshooting, specification, selection, or construction of…