How do they match: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

  • Instrument Setter

  • Install, set up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.

  • Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
  • Clean switches and replace contact points, using vacuum hoses, solvents, and hand tools.
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.

  • Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.
  • Determine types of equipment, tools, or materials needed for jobs.
  • Maintain work equipment or machinery.