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Total Safety is looking for a Communications Technician II to join their safety conscious team! The Communications Technician II provides service and repair for communications equipment which typically includes all aspects of Motorola two-way radio systems.
Total Safetyis the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity.
Essential Duties:
• Performs shop service and/or field repair (if certified) of communications equipment which may include Motorola portable radios, mobile radios, base station radios, repeaters, consoles, and complete radio systems. This also includes antenna systems and BDAs.
• At times will serve as either a lead technician responsible for overseeing the work of other technicians or as a senior worker performing complex radio/communications assignments.
• Completes all documentation associated with inspection and repair in a timely and accurate manner and obtains signature from customer so that proper invoicing and documentation can be provided to customer. This includes all inspection and repair documents, job cost billable expenses and time sheets.
• Learns to conduct detailed visual inspections and system functional tests of various systems and equipment to report any deficiencies and corrective action recommendations to customer.
• Learns to conduct pre-job, job update and post job completion briefs.
• Assists others in facilities including stocking shelves with clean, tested, and ready to use equipment and pulling, staging, and loading customer orders onto trucks for delivery.
• Maintains work area and other areas in a clean and orderly condition.
• Performs basic maintenance and care of assigned vehicle and/or trailer.
• Learns to rig-up and use a wide range of safety and rescue equipment including winches, tripods, retractable lifelines, harnesses, and lanyards.
• Assists others as needed.
Skills and Experience:
• Demonstrated ability to operate electronic safety equipment and understand production platform shutdowns performed through fire and gas detection systems.
• Ability to operate and maintain, reassemble, and test electronic safety equipment in accordance with manufacturers’ specifications.
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose assigned equipment problems and take corrective action within policy and procedure limitations.
• Knowledge of all regulatory standards pertaining to assigned responsibilities, i.e., State, OSHA, and NFPA regulations, etc.
• Must have knowledge of the applicable Code of Federal Regulations. Coast Guard and ABS regulations if offshore.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Working Environment:
• Shop and yard environment. May be frequently exposed to wet, humid, outside weather conditions and vibration. Works in some customer environments during the later part of training. May be exposed to high pressure, chemicals, and shop traffic. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Educational Requirements:
• High School diploma or GED and at least one (2) year of field experience in communications, fire protection, petrochemical, oil refinery or related industry. Associates degree, technical or military training strongly preferred.
Total Safety and its subsidiaries afford equal opportunity in employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, pregnancy, familial status, disability status, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under Federal, State or Local law. Total Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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