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

  • Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

  • Install and Repair Technician
  • Plant and Equipment Worker

  • 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.

  • Program computerized switches and switchboards to provide requested features.
  • Address special issues or situations, such as illegal or unauthorized use of equipment, or cases of electrical or acoustic shock.
  • Clean switches and replace contact points, using vacuum hoses, solvents, and hand tools.
  • 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.
  • Demonstrate equipment to customers and explain its use, responding to any inquiries or complaints.
  • Designate cables available for use.
  • Diagnose and correct problems from remote locations, using special switchboards to find the sources of problems.
  • Enter codes needed to correct electronic switching system programming.
  • Install updated software and programs that maintain existing software or provide requested features, such as time-correlated call routing.
  • Perform database verifications, using computers.
  • Request support from technical service centers when on-site procedures fail to solve installation or maintenance problems.
  • 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.
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.

  • Explain use of products or services.
  • Install programs onto computer or computer-controlled equipment.