Network Technician

Company: CenturyLink ( Learn More )

General Information

Location:	US-NE-Omaha
Base Pay:	N/A
Req'd Education:	Not Specified
Employee Type:	Full-Time
Req'd Experience:	Not Specified
Req'd Travel:	Not Specified
Manages Others:	False
Relocation Covered:	False

Job Description

Function: Cable Repair / Maintenance

Classification: Regular Full-Time employees are scheduled to work at least forty (40) hours per calendar week for an indefinite period of time. Wage Scale: 2 Location: Omaha, NE Basic Job Qualifications for INTERNAL Candidates:

Internal Candidates must meet Time in Title/Location requirements of their current position for consideration.

Job Responsibilities:

Maintains/repairs and tests copper cable and/or fiber optic cable in an underground, aerial, or buried environment.

Troubleshoots problems that will require cable repair, cable maintenance, air pressure, splicing, faultfinding, etc.

Makes splicing rearrangements on existing facilities in buried, underground, aerial and building work locations.

Uses heavy-duty power equipment (e.g., compressors, pumps, blowers), hand tools, power tools (air and electric), and specialty tools, including electric and electronic measuring devices (e.g., multi-meters, volt-ohm meters), in the construction and repair of outside plant facilities.

Performs testing and turn-up of subscriber lines, carrier plant, and/or fiber optic plant.

Locates and repairs air leaks in aerial, underground, and/or buried cable.

Locates, joins, repairs and rearranges cable and cable conductors in buildings and aerial or buried plant.

Initiates or performs cable cuts, transfer projects, and/or load balance cuts, and issues necessary cuts to prevent blocking.

Installs, maintains/repairs, and tests residential/small business telecommunication service (POTS and DSL).

Connects wires and cables to terminals, and attaches/detaches various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, buildings, and poles.

Performs continuity and/or conformance testing.

Reads and interprets customer service orders, technical (i.e., mechanical, electrical, digital) drawings, maps, blueprints, diagrams, etc.

Receives service orders, worksheets (detailed diagrams describing nature and location of equipment to be installed or repaired) and repair tickets from supervisor or other designated employees and performs specified work.

Works with telecom color-coded wires and cables.

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