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

  • Service Engineer
  • Service Technician
  • Customer Service Technician
  • Electronic Systems Technician
  • Information Transport Systems Technician
  • Public Address Servicer
  • Sound System Installer
  • Transmission Systems Operator

  • 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.

  • Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.
  • Enter codes needed to correct electronic switching system programming.
  • Examine telephone transmission facilities to determine requirements for new or additional telephone services.
  • Install telephone station equipment, such as intercommunication systems, transmitters, receivers, relays, and ringers, and related apparatus, such as coin collectors, telephone booths, and switching-key equipment.
  • Repair or replace faulty equipment, such as defective and damaged telephones, wires, switching system components, and associated equipment.
  • Request support from technical service centers when on-site procedures fail to solve installation or maintenance problems.
  • Run wires between components and to outside cable systems, connecting them to wires from telephone poles or underground cable accesses.

  • Service vehicles to maintain functionality.
  • Assemble electrical components, subsystems, or systems.
  • Explain use of products or services.
  • Install electrical components, equipment, or systems.
  • Rewire electrical or electronic systems.
  • Troubleshoot equipment or systems operation problems.