telecommunication cable installer

Link-On Communications Inc.


Major Work Area

  • Service
  • Repair
  • Maintenance
  • Installation


Equipment and Machinery Experience

  • Telecommunications equipment
  • Fibre optics
  • Copper
  • Coaxial line
  • Single line


Additional Skills

  • Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures


Area of Specialization

  • Telecommunication service testing


Work Setting

  • Telephone company
  • Telecommunications company
  • Cable television company


Type of Systems

  • Computerized testing system


Specific Skills

  • Test equipment to locate transmission faults
  • Splice, join and connect wires
  • Repair or replace defective telephone equipment
  • Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
  • Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment


Security and Safety

  • Driver’s validity licence check
  • Criminal record check


Work Site Environment

  • Confined spaces
  • Outdoors
  • At heights


Transportation/Travel Information

  • Vehicle supplied by employer
  • Valid driver’s licence


Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling


Work Location Information

  • Various locations


Equipment, Systems and Controls Experience

  • Telecommunication system


Personal Suitability

  • Initiative
  • Flexibility
  • Accurate
  • Team player
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Judgement
  • Reliability
  • Organized


Financial benefits

  • Bonus
  • Commission


Long term benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Registered retirement savings plan (RRSP)

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