communication line technician
Location
Surrey, BC | Canada
Job description
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Dangerous
- Confined spaces
Work setting
- Installation
- Maintenance
- Repair
- Telecommunications company
- Various locations
Responsibilities
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
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Coaxial line
- Fibre optics
- Single line
- Copper
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Manual dexterity
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
Job tags
Salary
$37.1 per hour
