Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories.
• Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
• Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
• Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment.
• Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.
• Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces.
• String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches, and pull lines to proper tension.
• Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches.
• Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
• Dig trenches for underground wires or cables.
• Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
• Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Place insulation over conductors, or seal splices with moisture-proof covering.
• Install equipment such as amplifiers or repeaters to maintain the strength of communications transmissions.
• Explain cable service to subscribers after installation, and collect any installation fees due.
• Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels.
• Use a variety of construction equipment to complete installations, such as digger derricks, trenchers, or cable plows.
• Dig holes for power poles, using power augers or shovels, set poles in place with cranes, and hoist poles upright, using winches.
• Fill and tamp holes, using cement, earth, and tamping devices.
• Participate in the construction or removal of telecommunication towers or associated support structures.

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