Field Technician Level 4 Job Description
Involves a senior-level telecommunications technician who installs, modifies, and maintains equipment in central offices and data centers with minimal supervision, potentially leading teams, and performing complex tasks like "hot cuts " and fiber optic work. Key responsibilities include interpreting technical documents, installing and terminating cabling, configuring DC power systems, and ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards like GR-1275. This position requires significant experience and often includes travel.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
Equipment Installation & Modification: Install, remove, and modify telecommunications equipment, infrastructure (like racking and fiber ducts), and components in Central Offices (CO), MSOs, and Data Centers.
Technical Documentation: Read and interpret technical documents, such as floor plans, rack layouts, engineering instructions, and customer work orders, to guide installations.
Cabling & Infrastructure: Build and install support infrastructure, including cable racks and framing. Terminate, route, and manage fiber and copper cabling using methods like lacing, stitching, and sewing.
Power Systems: Configure and commission -48VDC power systems, including rectifiers, batteries, and distribution panels, and perform complex "hot cut " transitions.
Quality Assurance: Ensure high-quality installations by adhering to Telcordia GR-1275 and other customer-specific standards. Participate in quality audits and ensure all work is safe and compliant.
Leadership & Mentoring: Potentially lead site teams, provide work instructions to lower-level technicians, and serve as the in-charge person for jobs.
Skills and Qualifications
Experience: A minimum of 6 years of accumulated experience or equivalent, as determined by the installation supplier.
Technical Knowledge: Strong technical knowledge of current network products and equipment, including DC power systems and transport/data center hardware.
Tools & Equipment: Proficiency in using a variety of hand tools, test equipment (e.g., BER, OTDR), and computer interfaces for validation.
Standards Compliance: Demonstrated knowledge of industry standards such as Telcordia GR-1275-CORE and other carrier-specific guidelines.
Soft Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, customer-facing skills, and the ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
Work Environment
Field-Based: The role is field-based, often requiring significant or 100% travel.
Safety: A strong emphasis on safety is required, following all company and customer mandates, and utilizing proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Numbers & Facts
Location
Dallas, TX
Skills
Bit Error Rate (BER)unmatched
Clothes Makingunmatched
Customer Relationsunmatched
Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
Hand Toolsunmatched
Industry Standardsunmatched
Installation Guideunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Maintain Complianceunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
Network Operations Centerunmatched
Network System Hardwareunmatched
Office Equipmentunmatched
On Site Supportunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Quality Assuranceunmatched
Quality Metricsunmatched
Regulatory Complianceunmatched
Safety Standardsunmatched
Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
System Validationunmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Technical Writingunmatched
Telecommunicationsunmatched
Telecommunications Equipmentunmatched
Test Equipmentunmatched
Willing to Travelunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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