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SUMMARY
Join our new team in Vallejo, CA. 95% of your work will be in the field. You will perform varied tasks of levels complexity in the installation of telecommunications equipment. This includes transport equipment and all critical infrastructures within, including spicing fiber optic cabling.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing Excellent customer service while interacting with all types of customers.
- Working on provisioning facilities with fiber optic services, handling/placing fiber optic cable.
- Pull cables, install and trims devices, terminates loops, circuits, or other data gathering points.
- Installs pre-assembled backboard with network electronics inside buildings.
- Terminates main control panels, racks, or other head end equipment, as well as, testing of all circuits from field devices to main control panels and equipment.
- Uses hand tools to assemble and install communication lines and equipment systems, antennas, towers and disassembles electronic equipment to adjust, repair, and replace parts.
- Starts up, programs and documents systems and installations.
- Records and tracks network interface device serial number for purpose of inventory management.
- Runs jumpers to provide connectivity inside facility.
- Places drop wire connecting facility with fiber access point.
- Utilizes test equipment for the purpose of troubleshooting and verifying the integrity of circuits.
- Measures, cuts, splices, connect, solders, and installs wire and cables associated with communications systems. May provision fiber optic network nodes by terminating main control panels, racks and other equipment; performs tests on all circuits from field devices to the main control panels and/or equipment.
- May include assisting with conduit placement at customer facility.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Experience in telecommunications, provisioning facilities with fiber optic services. 2+ years general construction experience, preferably handling/placing fiber optic cable.
- Knowledgeable in standards for placing low voltage wiring.
- Good communication skills to manage interactions with customers.
- Good work ethic and diligence regarding safety policies and practices.
- Able to work independently and with minimum supervision.
- Diligent in accomplishing firm and challenging production standards.
- High school diploma, GED.
- Intermediate computer skills including Microsoft Office, any Lead person should have five years’ prior experience as foreman in telecommunications construction.
Onward represents a fundamental CHANGE in telecommunications. Onward sells IP (Internet Protocol) from the ground up. Unlike other networks, we started with an all fiber network, that means no copper and none of the limitations that come with it. With this strong foundation, we created efficient operational processes and dynamic applications to support our top priority, the customer. This represents products that are flexible and easily adapted to keep up with a fast paced, technology driven market. Services can be installed in days, not weeks or months. Customers are Number 1.
