Field Technician: Fiber, Copper & Wireless Installations

Alaska Communications; Kenai (AK); On-site; USD 62,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Alaska Communications is seeking a Field Technician to install and maintain services across copper, fiber, wireless, and microwave networks in assigned areas. This role covers both remote and non-remote sites, including equipment like cross connects and access points.

Requirements include a high school diploma, a valid driver's license, and extensive hands-on training or journeyman-level experience with schematics and color vision. DOT/drug testing may be required.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma and must possess and maintain a driver's license.
• Four (4) years training in a relevant telephone apprentice program or equivalent experience leading to journeyman level performance in this specialty, with two (2) years' experience in the skills and work this position will typically perform.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment and read/read diagrams, and differentiate colors.

Responsibilities

• Complete service orders, repair orders, capital work orders, and maintenance work.
• Complete Line Station Transfers and cuts.
• Install and qualify data cabling to current specifications.
• Installs all business and residential station wiring and establishes the demarcation point.
• Makes preventive maintenance inspections to determine potential deterioration in service.
• Installs aerial and underground drops and does underground drop location; splices to plant as required.
• Corrects deficiencies in wiring by splicing or replacing to include distribution, house cables, station wiring, or underground, as well as aerial drops.

Skills

Driver's license

Read schematics

Pole climbing

Color vision

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Alaska Communications is seeking a Field Technician to install and maintain services across copper, fiber, wireless, and microwave networks in assigned areas. This role covers both remote and non-remote sites, including equipment like cross connects and access points.

Requirements include a high school diploma, a valid driver's license, and extensive hands-on training or journeyman-level experience with schematics and color vision. DOT/drug testing may be required.