private branch exchange (PBX) repairer – telecommunications

Work Site Environment

• Outdoors

Work Setting

• Urban area

Tasks

• Diagnose and locate equipment faults, and adjust, replace or repair telecommunications equipment
• Inspect and test operation of telecommunications equipment
• Install, arrange, remove and maintain telephone equipment, wiring and associated hardware
• Repair or replace defective telephone equipment
• Test installed telephone systems to locate transmission faults
• Analyze test results and adjust, change or repair switching system, network, associated equipment and software
• Complete and maintain test and service reports
• Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
• Initiate the dispatch of appropriate repair personnel
• Inspect and test trunking systems
• Install electromechanical, analog and digital trunking systems, circuits and equipment in telecommunications central offices and switching centres
• Instruct apprentices
• Operate computerized testing systems to conduct service tests on customer lines and equipment
• Read and interpret blueprints

Computer and Technology Knowledge

• Telephone system
• Trunking system
• Computerized testing system
• Telecommunication system

Area of Specialization

• Switch network installation and repair

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Tight deadlines
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Weight Handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)