communication line technician

Additional Information

• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Dangerous
• At heights
• Confined spaces

Work setting

• Installation
• Maintenance
• Repair
• Telecommunications company
• Various locations

Tasks

• Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment
• Test equipment to locate transmission faults
• Install trunking systems, circuits and equipment
• Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
• Read and interpret blueprints
• Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
• Inspect and test trunking systems
• Splice, join and connect wires
• Repair or replace defective telephone equipment

Equipment and machinery experience

• Coaxial line
• Fibre optics
• Single line
• Copper

Transportation/travel information

• Willing to travel

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Tight deadlines
• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots
• Hard hat
• Safety glasses/goggles

Personal suitability

• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 40 hours per week