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Job Descriptions
Telecommunications Line and Cable Worker
Telecommunications Line and Cable Worker
NOC 2021: 72204/ NOC 2016: 7245
As a Telecommunications line and cable worker you will perform some or all of the following duties:
- Install, remove, maintain, and repair aerial and underground telephone and other telecommunication transmission and distribution lines, cables, and associated hardware
- Climb poles or use truck-mounted buckets to string wires and perform maintenance
- Work in confined spaces such as trenches, tunnels and crawl spaces
- Install (but do not repair or maintain) cable television lines and cables
- Repair telecommunication cables including single line, coaxial and fibre optic
- Diagnose and repair faulty lines and equipment
- Analyze and record test results
- Co-ordinate the preparation and completion of work assignments
Source: NOC
Telecommunications Installation and Repair Worker
Telecommunications Installation and Repair Worker
NOC 2021: 72205 / NOC 2016: 7246
Working as a Telecommunications Installation and Repair Worker you will perform some or all of the following duties.
Telephone installer and repairers
- Install, arrange, remove, and maintain telephone equipment, wiring, and associated hardware
- Test installed telephone systems to locate transmission faults
- Repair or replace damaged telephones, wire, and associated equipment.
Switch network installers and repairers
- Install electromechanical, analog, and digital trunking systems, circuits, and equipment in telecommunications central offices and switching centres
- Inspect and test trunking systems, circuits, and equipment
- Analyze test results and adjust, change, or repair switching systems, networks, associated equipment, and software.
Telecommunications service testers
- Operate computerized testing systems to conduct service tests on customer lines and equipment
- Determine the nature, cause, and location of service trouble
- Complete test reports and maintain test and service records
- May assist repair personnel to test lines, circuits, and systems, isolate and clear cable faults, and verify records.
Telecommunications equipment technicians
- Install, remove, and maintain various telecommunications equipment
- Configure operating systems and install software for access to the Internet
- Inspect and test operation of telecommunications equipment
- Diagnose and locate equipment faults, repair telecommunications equipment.
Source: NOC