Cable Technician

Title: Network/Cable Technician

Onsite in Washington, DC

Pay: $20-26 hourly

The technician will provide general labor services to correct non-compliant network cabling and power installations. In addition to compliance remediation, the technician will be responsible for installation of new network fixtures, migration of telecom equipment to the new fixtures, and decommission of old fixtures. While staff may be doing majority of their work from 6-3PM M-F; staff will be expected to adjust their normal working hours to fit maintenance windows for customers. Assignments will vary on a daily and weekly basis.

Example tasks required for this position are, but not limited to, the following:

• Breakdown, remove and migrate existing telecommunication fixtures and electronics.

o Rack, ladder racking and general fixture demolition and installation.

• Limited copper patch panel moves and transfers

• Limited fiber patch panel moves and transfers

• Grounding fixtures to telecom room bus bar

• Fire stopping treatments to new and legacy telecommunication cable entry points

• Transport, lift and deliver required supplies, tools and fixtures to and from job sites

• Fabricating mounts, hooks, braces and other parts as needed to build a reliable equipment and fixture setup

• Technicians are required to have their own basic hand tools. Vehicles will NOT be provided and there will be no other direct costs (mileage, gas and parking) billed to this contract.

Required Skills:

• Must have OSP/ISP background. 3 years of experience is required.

• Must be able to read and understand OSP/ISP engineering work orders and architecture drawings.

• Must be able understand electrical architecture drawings (NEC-NFPA-70 Current Applicable Edition Per DCRA/DCMR).

• Must be able to install batteries and perform preventive maintenance on batteries

• Ability to safely operate power tools such as hammer drills, band saws, reciprocating saws, etc.

• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

• Ability and willingness to escalate issues to team lead

• Demonstrate ability to take care in handling active telecommunication equipment and cabling to minimize disruptions to customers

• Require grounding, bonding, fire stopping and duct plug certifications - Certified Electrical Bonding & Grounding Technician (CEBGT) or similar

o Must have or have ability to obtain certification and be proficient with fire-stopping, duct plugging with various assemblies and applications (Code Requirements per NEC-NFPA-70)

o Must have or have ability to obtain current certification and be proficient with bonding/grounding ICT/SCS infrastructures and pathways (ANSI-TIA 607-C Best Practices)

• Should be familiar with OSHA, EIA/TIA, ANSI, IEEE and BICSI cabling standards

• Comfortable working alone and unsupervised or as a team member

• Must be able to install and remove cabinets, relay racks, ladder racking & channel trough, wall-mounted cabinets and back boards/hardware (ANSI-TIA #568-D.0.-D.4 and #569-D Best Practices).

• Must be proficient with terminals R-66, Krone, 110

• Preferred but not required to have current certifications to include one or a combination of the following BICSI TECH and Level II Technician Certifications (TECH, INSTF, INSTC), Corning, and Bellcore.