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Fiber Optic Field Tech

  • Full Time, onsite
  • BABB Technology Services Inc
  • Hybridtravel to corporate sites, United States of America
Salary undisclosed

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A field technician specializing in fiber termination, tower work, and cable installation is responsible for a broad range of tasks related to the deployment and maintenance of fiber optic and communication networks. Their key duties include:

  1. Bringing Fiber Connections into the Building: Running fiber optic cables from external sources (such as a street or utility pole) into a building, ensuring they reach designated internal locations like data centers or network rooms.
  1. Terminating Fiber: Preparing fiber ends and attaching connectors using specialized tools, ensuring a reliable connection for data transmission.
  1. Tower Work: Climbing communication towers to install, maintain, or repair equipment such as antennas, cables, and other hardware. This includes working at heights and ensuring that all equipment is properly aligned for optimal signal transmission.
  1. Cable Installation: Installing various types of cables, including both fiber optic and coaxial cables, in a range of environments. This might involve running cables through conduits, along utility poles, or inside buildings.
  1. Testing and Troubleshooting: Using tools like OTDR (Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer) and other network testing equipment to ensure the integrity of fiber connections, troubleshoot issues, and repair any faults in the system.
  1. Repairs and Maintenance: Performing maintenance on both ground-level and tower equipment, including the repair of damaged cables, ensuring reliable network performance.

By combining skills in fiber optic termination, tower work, and cable installation, this technician ensures that high-speed data and communication networks are properly installed, tested, and maintained across a variety of environments.

A field technician specializing in fiber termination, tower work, and cable installation, typically offers extensive expertise in handling the installation and maintenance of high-speed communication infrastructure.

Skills: in bringing fiber connections into buildings, terminating fiber, performing cable installation, and conducting tower work. It also accounts for the technician's ability to work safely at heights, test and troubleshoot fiber networks, and maintain equipment to ensure optimal performance.

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