Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (60%).

• Maintain computer and manual records pertaining to facilities and equipment.
• Request support from technical service centers when on-site procedures fail to solve installation or maintenance problems.
• Perform database verifications, using computers.
• Remove loose wires and other debris after work is completed.
• Analyze test readings, computer printouts, and trouble reports to determine equipment repair needs and required repair methods.
• Repair or replace faulty equipment, such as defective and damaged telephones, wires, switching system components, and associated equipment.
• Adjust or modify equipment to enhance equipment performance or to respond to customer requests.
• Communicate with bases, using telephones or two-way radios to receive instructions or technical advice, or to report equipment status.

• Test connections to ensure that power supplies are adequate and that communications links function.
• Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.
• Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
• Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
• Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
• Remove and remake connections to change circuit layouts, following work orders or diagrams.
• Demonstrate equipment to customers and explain its use, responding to any inquiries or complaints.
• Note differences in wire and cable colors so that work can be performed correctly.
• Climb poles and ladders, use truck-mounted booms, and enter areas such as manholes and cable vaults to install, maintain, or inspect equipment.
• Collaborate with other workers to locate and correct malfunctions.
• Run wires between components and to outside cable systems, connecting them to wires from telephone poles or underground cable accesses.
• Inspect equipment on a regular basis to ensure proper functioning.