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Career Details :: Station Installers and Repairers, Telephone
Description
Install and repair telephone station equipment, such as telephones, coin collectors, telephone booths, and switching-key equipment.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Climbs poles to install or repair outside service lines.
- Operates and tests equipment to ensure elimination of malfunction.
- Assembles telephone equipment, mounts brackets, and connects wire leads, using hand tools and following installation diagrams or work order.
- Installs communication equipment, such as intercommunication systems and related apparatus, using schematic diagrams, testing devices, and hand tools.
- Disassembles components and replaces, cleans, adjusts, and repairs parts, wires, switches, relays, circuits, or signaling units, using hand tools.
- Analyzes equipment operation, using testing devices to locate and diagnose nature of malfunction and ascertain needed repairs.
- Repairs cables, lays out plans for new equipment, and estimates material required.
Related Careers
- Central Office and PBX Installers and Repairers
- Communication Equipment Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
- Radio Mechanics
- Sound Engineering Technicians
- Telecommunications Facility Examiners
- Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Electrical Equipment
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Standing
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