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

  • Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

  • Cable Technician
  • Cable TV Installer
  • Cable TV Line Technician
  • Cable TV Tech
  • Cable Television Technician
  • Cable Television Installer
  • Cable Television Line Technician
  • Telecommunication Equipment Repairer
  • Telecommunications Technician
  • Telecommunications Facility Examiner
  • Telecommunications Repairer
  • Telecommunications Switch Technician
  • Automatic Equipment Technician
  • Broadband Technician
  • Central Office Technician
  • Combination Technician
  • Communications Technician
  • Communications Equipment Repair Technician
  • Community Antenna Television Line Technician
  • Customer Service Technician
  • Data Communications Technician
  • Electronic Systems Technician
  • Facility Technician
  • Fiber Technician
  • Field Technician
  • Field Installation Technician
  • Headend Technician
  • In Building Wireless Installation Technician
  • Information Transport Systems Technician
  • Install and Repair Technician
  • Installation Technician
  • Installer Technician
  • Maintenance Technician
  • Network Cable Installer
  • Network Cabler
  • Network Technician
  • Network Operations Center Technician
  • Outside Plant Technician
  • Phone Technician
  • Plant Technician
  • Power Technician
  • Premises Technician
  • Repair Technician
  • Satellite Technician
  • Service Technician
  • Solutions Technician
  • Special Equipment Technician
  • Submarine Cable Equipment Technician
  • Switch Technician
  • Telephone Technician
  • Teletype Technician
  • Test Technician
  • Wire Technician
  • Wireless Technician

  • 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.

  • Climb poles and ladders, use truck-mounted booms, and enter areas such as manholes and cable vaults to install, maintain, or inspect equipment.
  • Communicate with bases, using telephones or two-way radios to receive instructions or technical advice, or to report equipment status.
  • Designate cables available for use.
  • Note differences in wire and cable colors so that work can be performed correctly.
  • Request support from technical service centers when on-site procedures fail to solve installation or maintenance problems.
  • Review manufacturer's instructions, manuals, technical specifications, building permits, and ordinances to determine communication equipment requirements and procedures.
  • Route and connect cables and lines to switches, switchboard equipment, and distributing frames, using wire-wrap guns or soldering irons to connect wires to terminals.
  • Run wires between components and to outside cable systems, connecting them to wires from telephone poles or underground cable accesses.
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.

  • Inspect telecommunications equipment to identify problems.
  • Read technical information needed to perform maintenance or repairs.