Splicing Technician

AT&T; Napa (CA); On-site; USD 80,231,000 - 114,616,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T Napa, California is seeking a field technician to perform installation, repair and maintenance of telecommunications cables and facilities. You will load tools, review schematics and work with a range of hand tools and test equipment in a dynamic field environment.

The role requires climbing poles, coordinating with customers and contractors, ensuring safety standards, and accurately reporting work time and operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and analyze complex schematic drawings.
• Work with color-coded wires and telecommunications equipment.
• Operate hand tools, test equipment and basic machinery.
• Comply with safety standards and quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Load tools/material into company vehicle and travel to work location.
• Perform routine maintenance and safety checks on tools and equipment.
• Review schematics to determine work steps and sequence.
• Splice conductors and reconnect cable facilities.
• Work on digital data circuits or fiber conductors with testing gear.
• Identify and repair cable faults and locate buried facilities.
• Coordinate with outside contractors for restoration or installation.
• Document time and classify operations to codes.
• Install, rearrange, repair and remove communication facilities.
• Ensure customer contact and act as company representative.

Skills

Cable splicing

Reading schematics

Use hand tools

Test equipment

Safety standards

Climbing poles

Time reporting

Customer communication

Job description

Receives verbal or written daily work assignments and instructions from supervisors/peers and/or dispatch center; Loads required tools and material into Company vehicle and travels to work location. Performs routine maintenance and safety checks on Company provided tools, equipment and motor vehicles; Reviews and analyzes complex schematic drawings to determine work to be done, methods and sequence of tasks, communicates discrepancies to associated work groups and recommends job design changes; Works with small hand tools, mechanical equipment, color-coded and test signal identified wires for the connection and repair of wires and cables to related telecommunications equipment; Splices pairs of color-coded or tone identified conductors together by hand, splicing tool or machine, rearranging and reconnecting cable facilities. May also work on digital data circuits or fiber conductors using sensitive equipment; Identifies, isolates and repairs various types of cable faults; Works with outside contractors during excavation of cable facilities to accomplish service restoration and/or installation of new facilities locating and/or marking buried and underground cable facilities; Isolates and locates air pressure leaks in underground cable facilities; Uses various electronic test equipment; May be required to develop a working knowledge of binary numbering system, digital concepts and fiber optics (light guide); May be required to dig with shovel, jackhammer, etc., to find buried trouble; May be required to climb non-stepped poles with the use of climbers; Uses mechanized system requiring basic computer literacy.; Communicates with other work groups, customers and vendors on completed work and requests various information regarding new work assignments; Must accurately perform time reporting tasks, classify work operations to account codes and explain work changes to the customer; Must meet specific quality, production and safety standards; Installs, rearranges, repairs and removes communication facilities, which could include inside wiring; Customer contact required; Will be expected to be the Company's representative and customer's advocate; Works with TAN mechanized systems requiring minimal computer literacy; May be required to work in both a construction and maintenance environment.

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Location:

Napa, California

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