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AT&T · 14 hours ago

Temporary Facility Technician

Cutler Bay, Florida

Full-time, Contract

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

AT&T is a leading telecommunications company, and they are seeking a Temporary Facility Technician. The role involves providing customer care, maintaining communication with customers, and performing various technical tasks related to telephone service installations and repairs.

CollaborationCommunications InfrastructureMobileService IndustryTelecommunicationsWireless

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provides consistent, respectful and professional internal/external customer care

Initializes and maintains an open line of communications to ensure all customers receive the highest level of customer satisfaction possible

Reviews and interprets work orders, circuit diagrams and follows standard practices

Receives work orders and instructions from supervisor and/or computer access terminal

Reviews and analyzes complex schematic drawings to determine work to be done and sequence of tasks

Performs work both inside and outside in connection with providing telephone service between the central office and customer's premises

Requires interfacing with customers on construction installation or repair work

Works with hot metal, tools, digital loop carrier equipment, fiber optic cables, air pressure monitoring systems and associated equipment, color coded and tone identified wires in the connection of wires and cables to other telephone equipment and in connecting cable pairs together

Determines differences in wire and cable colors and audible tones

Prepares newly installed cables, conductors, and fibers preparatory to splicing by removing outer sheath, insulation and fiber coating

Splices cables in aerial, underground, buried, submarine and building configurations, both multiple conductor cable, coaxial cable and fiber optic cable

Identifies conductors in adjoining cable sections, according to diagrams and specifications by means of test signal identified wires or fiber optic test equipment

Operates hydraulic aerial lifts (buckets) and ladders mounted on trucks

Closes splices by enclosing with bolted on waterproof case, thermally applied shrinkable sleeving, or fitting and wiping a lead sleeve over splice opening

Loads required tools and materials on Company truck or van and drives or rides to work location. May report directly to work location in some cases

Makes necessary tests for toxic and explosive gas before entering manhole and continues tests while working in manhole

May require cleaning manholes before working and after completing assignments

Communicates with other employees about completed work and requests various information regarding work assignments

Repairs, routines and maintains cable plant, fiber optic plant and digital loop carrier equipment

Rearranges other types of plant to conform with cable work and placing and removing cables

Uses test equipment to isolate conductor faults or identify defective or broken fibers

Turns up, routines, troubleshoots and maintains digital carrier equipment and maintains light wave and metallic terminals

Uses electrical instruments such as 500/573 Cable Locator, 710A/B Resistance Fault Locator, 730/735 Open Fault Locator to verify and determine defects in the cable, conductors and wire

Uses electrical instruments such as span measuring test sets and signal generators to verify and determine defective carrier equipment in subscriber/digital carrier systems

Removes, tests, and replaces plug-in carrier equipment in central office, repeater, and remote terminal locations

Uses computer terminals associated with Operations Support Systems related to work locations

Follows established safety procedures. Must be able to safely utilize equipment resources to perform specified physical job duties, i.e., satisfies manufacturer's specifications for operation or use of equipment including weight limitations

Climbs poles and ladders, works aloft with small tools

Work outside in all kinds of weather

Lifts and moves loads up to 120 pounds

Drives Company vehicle

Qualification

Fiber optic cable splicingDigital loop carrier equipmentElectrical instruments operationSchematic drawing analysisCustomer communicationSafety procedures adherenceTeam collaboration

Required