Position: Telecommunications Technician
Location: Harrisonburg, VA / Woodstock, VA region
Duration: 12-month contract with annual extensions
Pay Range: $22/hr - $35/hr
Overview:
As a Telecommunications Technician, you will apply your knowledge of all areas of telecommunications and perform maintenance on telecommunications equipment. Your duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Respond to system and service outages
- Installation and wiring of routers, switches, and firewalls, along with coordinating with multiple groups for configuration and troubleshooting
- Terminate copper and fiber cabling as needed to support network turnups and upgrades
- Physically connect to live DC power plant systems
- Effectively identify and utilize the proper resources to develop solutions and devise new approaches to problems encountered in work assignments
- Work on various other telecommunication systems and tasks when required by leadership
Qualifications:
- 2+ years supporting telecommunications networks
- Working knowledge of fiber circuits, MPLS, and other LAN/WAN data circuits
- Skilled in the termination and troubleshooting of various cabling types to include fiber
- Knowledge of fiber terminations, data circuits, 48V and 135Vdc power plants
- Experience with DC plant systems, LAN and wireless testing, fiber optic test equipment, and various cabling types
- Familiarity with cable identification, terminating cables, and Channel Banks
- Experience racking and stacking routers and switches