Fibre Technician
Fibre Technician
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20-06-2025
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Job Description
Our client is a facilities-based telecommunications services provider that have invested heavily in next generation networking technologies to build a multi-service network platform. Due to expansion they are in need of a FIBER TECHNICIAN.
Successful employee(s) will be responsible for installation monitoring testing and maintenance of
fibre optics cable links and follow operational procedures both in technical facilities. Performs
complex technical duties and escalate issues as needed. Follows standard procedures and guidelines.
Uses individual expertise to solve difficult technical and system problems.
NB: This job requires working weekends and various shifts including holidays.
Job Description
- Testing and diagnostic procedures on equipment according to published equipment standards
- Fibre optics cable installation/deployment projects
- Supervise external fibre optics contractors to ensure they maintain maximum standards on the field and deliver projects according to specification
- Locates fibre optics cable monitor construction activities fiber splicing and termination; Installation of routers bridges multiplexers concentrators etc
- Periodic maintenance on company transmissions support equipment
- Maintenance of new and existing fibre optics link circuits through troubleshooting and fault isolation techniques
- Utilization of local and remote test systems to isolate and resolve site circuit outages
- Maintaining a database of new and existing fiber optics links and circuits
- Coordination of testing and turn up of service with all involved providers until the site/link is up and working
Requirements
- Experience with PC word processing and communications software.
- Extensive experience in splicing fibre optics cables using different fusion splicer machines
- Extensive experience in the use of OTDR machine to locate faults on fibre optics cable
- Extensive experience in new fibre optics cable deployment projects.
- Extensive experience in understanding and analyzing OTDR trace readings.
- Hands on experience in using various software to draw as-built diagrams of completed fibre optics cable deployment project.
- Extensive knowledge of fibre optics deployment civil work standards.
- Working knowledge of plotting fibre optics routes on google earth to produce KMZ/KML
- Security background investigation for site access may be required.
- Must be able to perform physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable
- accommodation including but not limited to perceiving differences in wire cable colors
- moving and/or lifting items such as ladders
- Willingness to work odd shifts day night and weekends.
- Even better if you have experience with the following:
- A competent level of (site specific) equipment knowledge including but not limited to
- transmission equipment manufactured by Cisco Siemens and Huawei.
- Experience interpreting engineering drawings and providing as-built drawings to engineering.
- Working knowledge of Customer Premise/site Equipment installation and troubleshooting
- Fiber Splice and Cable Preparation procedure
- Aerial cable placement
- Underground cable placement procedure.
Employment Type
Full Time
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