Overseas Outside Plant OSP Technician

Qualifications

• Previous Overseas Experience highly preferred
• Education: High School Diploma/GEDor higher
• Minimum of three years of OSP Cable experience
• Operate digger derricks bucket trucks personnel lifts backhoes and trenching equipment to provide ondemand maintenance support
• Fluent in the spoken and written English language to include the usage of technical terms commonly used in information technology (IT) network routing and switching telecommunications IT maintenance and technical control facilities
• Secret Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Personnel will provide Site Management Infrastructure Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Unified Communications Inside Plant (ISP) Customer Service Telephone Outside Plant (Cable) (OSP) Battery Maintenance Cable Locates; Systems Management Mission Server Automation and Network Support Cybersecurity and Tier II Customer Support; Land Mobile Radio; and Configuration Management support
• All personnel will work an 12hour workday
• Support customer telephone requirements that include responding to service requests isolation and repair of telephone troubles
• Process requests for all moves adds and changes requirements utilizing the TMS
• Maintain all network cabling infrastructure network equipment voice video data systems and ancillary equipment (servers switches call managers and routers)
• Maintain files for all completed work requests
• Maintain install remove and move all instruments service lines and LAN service associated with Administrative Telephone Services (ATS) and Information Technology Services
• Install remove and move all connectors terminators and if required all unused cable including copper coaxial and fiber optic cable from the work area back to the point of demarcation for the installation
• Install Wireless Network Access Points to support access to the installation infrastructure
• Support emergency work requests within two 2 hours of oral or written notification
• Support modernization programs such as Network ModernizationsContinental United States (NETMODC) Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program (I3MP) (e.g. site surveys data calls etc.
• Participate and provide technical support to engineering design reviews technical working groups Change Control Board (CCB) process/board and miscellaneous meetings and briefings
• Provide property accountability for all accountable telecommunication equipment using the standard Army accountability system for all O&M maintenance actions
• Provide Remote Switching Unit (RSU) and communication room cleanup and cable management
• Support OSP Cable requirements to include all cables designated as Government communications cable up to and including building entrance cable through to the termination of service or as noted on the appropriate work order
• Install deinstall maintain repair locate and test multipleconductor aerial underground and buried multipurpose communications cable to include coaxial fiber optics and copper/conventional cable
• Install terminate and test fiber optic metallic or coaxial cables as requested on a Local Service Request
• Ensure all cable termination specifications and tolerances are IAW Electronic Industry Association/Telecommunications Industry Association (EIA/TIA) and Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) standards
• Perform inspection and maintenance on all associated telephone poles manholes handholds outside terminals pedestals splice points and bonding and grounding of termination points
• Audit and update butterfly drawings on all cables running through the telephone poles/pedestals/MH/HH
• Inspect all maintenance holes for flooding and pump excess water as required
• Report any manhole safety hazards along with any defects associated with the manhole structures and covers and any manholes requiring structural repair
• Test backup power (battery banks) IAW Defense Information Systems Agency Circular (DISAC)
• Perform operatorlevel maintenance IAW applicable Technical Manuals (TMs) AR 3851 AR 7501 DA PAM 7508 and the Original Equipment Manufacturer specified maintenance procedures
• Receive process coordinate and complete all digging permits through Virginia Utility Protection Service
• Locate and mark all official Government cables
• Maintain all supporting documentation for the cable locates performed
• Prepare and submit all necessary paperwork for obtaining digging permits and environmental clearances
• Complete maintain and provide inspection reports up requests
• Perform other duties as required