Central Office / Transport Field Technician

GCS Recruitment; Village of Garden City (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment seeks an experienced Central Office / Transport Field Technician to support carrier-grade telecommunications infrastructure across Long Island.

This role is hands-on and onsite at telecom sites, central offices, huts, shelters, and other network locations. The ideal candidate has field telecom experience in ILEC/CLEC/MSO environments, with DS1/DS3, SONET, Ethernet, IP, DWDM, and legacy transport knowledge, ready to test, restore, and troubleshoot in live networks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on field telecommunications experience.
• Experience with ILEC/CLEC/MSO environments.
• Knowledge of legacy TDM and SONET transport.
• Experience with DS1/DS3 and optical transport.
• Experience with Ethernet, IP, DWDM services.
• Ability to work independently at multiple telecom sites.

Responsibilities

• Travel to sites to perform onsite network maintenance, troubleshooting, testing, and restoration.
• Install, provision, test, and maintain DS0, DS1/T1, DS3/T3, SONET OC-3 to OC-192, Ethernet/IP transport, and DWDM.
• Troubleshoot alarms, circuit failures, transport degradation, LOS events, and hardware failures.
• Replace defective cards, modules, optics, shelves, and transport equipment.
• Perform circuit turn-up, fault isolation, and service restoration.
• Utilize field test equipment (OTDR, power meters, fiber scopes, Viavi/JDSU, EXFO).
• Fiber inspection, cleaning, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Support network outages and field restorations.
• Maintain truck stock, field spares, optics, tools, and test gear.
• Support critical infrastructure including telecom DC power systems and site preventive maintenance.

Skills

Field experience

DS1/DS3 transport

SONET transport

Ethernet/IP transport

DWDM optics

Independent work

Tools

OTDR

Power meters

Fiber scopes

Viavi/JDSU

EXFO

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Central Office / Transport Field Technician to support carrier-grade telecommunications infrastructure across Long Island.

This role is heavily focused on hands-on field work supporting legacy and modern transport systems, including DS0, DS1/T1, DS3/T3, SONET OC-3 through OC-192, Ethernet, IP, wavelength, and DWDM.

The ideal candidate will come from an ILEC, CLEC, MSO, carrier, or fiber-network environment and will be comfortable working directly at telecom sites, central offices, huts, shelters, and other network locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Travel throughout the assigned territory to perform onsite network maintenance, troubleshooting, testing, and restoration.
• Install, provision, test, and maintain:
  • DS0
  • DS1 / T1
  • DS3 / T3
  • SONET OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192
  • Ethernet and IP transport
  • Wavelength and DWDM services
• Troubleshoot alarms, circuit failures, transport degradation, loss-of-signal events, and hardware failures.
• Replace defective cards, modules, optics, shelves, and related transport equipment.
• Perform circuit turn-up, fault isolation, and service restoration.
• Use field test equipment including:
  • OTDR
  • Optical power meters
  • Fiber inspection scopes
  • Viavi / JDSU equipment
  • EXFO test equipment
• Perform fiber inspection, cleaning, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Support network outages and emergency restoration activity in the field.
• Maintain truck stock, field spares, optics, tools, replacement hardware, and test equipment.
• Support critical infrastructure including telecom DC power systems and basic site preventive maintenance.

Required Experience

• Hands-on field experience in telecommunications.
• Background working for or supporting an ILEC, CLEC, MSO, carrier, or fiber provider.
• Strong working knowledge of legacy TDM and SONET transport.
• Experience with DS1, DS3, SONET, and optical transport strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting Ethernet, IP, DWDM, or wavelength services.
• Familiarity with fiber testing and field troubleshooting.
• Ability to work independently across multiple telecom sites.

Target Backgrounds

Relevant candidates may have held titles such as:

• Central Office Technician
• CO Technician
• Transport Technician
• Network Technician
• Field Technician
• Telecom Technician
• Special Services Technician
• Transmission Technician
• Network Field Technician

Experience with organizations such as Verizon, Altice/Optimum, Spectrum/Charter, Lumen/Level 3, Zayo, Crown Castle, Windstream, or similar carriers is highly relevant.

Ideal Candidate

The strongest candidate is a true field-based telecom technician who has physically worked on transport equipment in live carrier environments.

This is not a NOC, design, or desk-based engineering role. We are specifically seeking someone who is comfortable being onsite, troubleshooting equipment, testing circuits, replacing hardware, and restoring service in the field.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.