Overview
Languages
English
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Work site environment
- At heights
Work setting
- Installation
- Maintenance
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Complete and maintain test and service reports
- Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
- Read and interpret blueprints
- Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
- Connect, disconnect and relocate cable outlets
- Inspect and test trunking systems
- Inspect, test and repair cable signals and associated equipment
- Install cable modems and software to enable Internet access
- Maintain and repair aerial and underground transmission systems
- Repair or replace faulty cables, power suppliers and amplifiers
- Splice, join and connect wires
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Reliability