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

  • Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

  • Cable TV Installer
  • Cable TV Line Technician
  • Cable TV Tech
  • Cable Technician
  • Cable Television Installer
  • Cable Television Line Technician
  • Cable Television Technician
  • Telecommunication Equipment Repairer
  • Telecommunications Facility Examiner
  • Telecommunications Repairer
  • Telecommunications Switch Technician
  • Telecommunications Technician
  • Network Cable Installer
  • Network Cabler
  • Submarine Cable Equipment 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.
  • Designate cables available for use.
  • Note differences in wire and cable colors so that work can be performed correctly.
  • 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.