Service Operations Specialist

Overview

Lumos is looking for a Service Operations Specialist to bring the future of connectivity to our customers. In this role, you?ll be responsible for installing, testing, and maintaining services and equipment in homes and businesses. Technicians set up fiber facilities, including Multi-Ports, and remove company-owned ONTs as needed. You will handle provisioning, testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting of GPON/PON, routers, switches, DSL equipment, and more.

Additionally, you’ll install cross-connects at cross-connect and LCC cabinets for fiber circuits. Working onsite with customers and in collaboration with our Service Operations Center (SOC), you’ll play a key role in ensuring seamless connectivity.

Company Summary

Lumos provides 100% Fiber-Optic Internet access to more than 375,000 homes and businesses in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and has recently announced expansion into Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Alabama.

Our Mission & Values

At Lumos, we are driven by our commitment to a brighter tomorrow
. We take pride in being the first to deliver 100% Fiber Optic Internet for families, small businesses, and communities. We know the possibilities of tomorrow can’t be built on the infrastructure of yesterday. And when we deliver uninterrupted Internet and limitless capacity, we create new opportunities for everyone.

We believe that the past is over, and the future is fast. That’s why we are who we are: the disruptors of the status quo. Guided by our purpose and startup mindset
, we step up, move first, and adapt as we go. Here, there’s no hierarchy, only hustle.

We are all servant leaders
, confident in our purpose and humble enough to pay close attention to the details. We all have the power to help solve problems and find solutions for our customers and teammates - and we do - by putting people first and doing whatever it takes to build loyalty with our customers and within our team.

We’re passionate about our customers’ experience
. Their futures don’t stand still, and neither do ours. We’ll never stop reinventing ourselves to meet our customers’ evolving needs - because we know that our work, delivering 100% fiber optic internet, truly changes people’s lives.

Essential Functions

• Performs preventive maintenance on equipment at RSB CO, Remote, DLC, and COLO sites.
• Conducts advanced OTDR traces & fiber characterization.
• Installs and troubleshoots basic voice, data, video services, & CPE (Residential Gateways, Routers, etc.).
• Manages data entry tasks, including updating trouble tickets, orders, timesheets, etc.
• Serves as a SME in operating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing RSB CO, Remote, DLC, and COLO equipment.
• Supports RSB engineering projects, including the installation of GPON cards, turning up new Access Gear & Splitters, upgrading ONTs, and working on equipment upgrades.
• Assists Network Operations on troubleshooting, isolating, and resolving operational & hardware issues related to RSB CO, Remote, DLC, and COLO equipment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience interacting directly with customers to troubleshoot.
• Safe driving record.
• Experience using MS Office Suite.
• Proficient in network cabling, basic electrical systems, basic telephony, and grounding/bonding (ANSI/EIA/TIA-607).
• Experience maintaining power equipment, including rectifiers, batteries, and generators.
• Ability to read & understand cross-connects for fiber LCC cabinets & splitters.
• Extensive experience with advanced GPON and fiber-based services & equipment.
• Working knowledge of voice services (SIP), video services, LAN/WAN service & hardware.
• Proficient in IP subnetting.
• Supports the development of Operations Service Technicians on the team.

Other Experience & Requirements

• 5-7 years’ Fiber or Telecom industry experience required.
• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Valid, fully unencumbered Driver’s License required.
• Must reside within 30 minutes’ driving distance of assigned reporting location.
• Committed to continuous learning & process optimization.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to climb utility poles (where applicable) and work at heights.
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