Infrastructure Technician Opportunity

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  Position requires knowledge of construction buildouts, inside plant (ISP), and outside plant (OSP) cabling infrastructure (fiber, copper, coax), and phone networks. 

Duties

• Perform installations and maintains network and system infrastructure (fiber, copper, coax, network hardware) Authority-wide. Under general supervision, the incumbent coordinates and facilitates third-party maintenance for network and systems services and prepares and maintains network and system infrastructure documentation.

• Perform daily analysis of infrastructure needs (TSR, Projects, Network, and System Support) and contribute to the design of network and systems integration and installation, which includes planning for the evolution of each network and system.

• Perform site surveys to obtain the following information:

• Ensure job/project consistency by securing blueprints or floor plans,

• Determining cabling equipment locations to provide adequate space, performing a visual inspection of the job site

• Assessing network and system equipment location (ER, EF, TR, TE)

• Identify any problem areas

• Interface with the customer to identify needs

• Determine pulling technique (per code, standards, and manufacture)

• Determine material storage

• Determine location access

• Determine the location of stations

• Building telecommunications rooms to meet code, industry standards, and  specifications. Build-out will require performing equipment layout, verifying wall load capacity, mounting backboards, constructing, and mounting equipment racks, mounting cable trays and ladder trays, mounting blocks and patch panels per spec., mounting D-rings and wire management panels, mounting ground busbar, ground equipment (racks, cable tray, conduits) per code, mount fiber termination hardware as appropriate, perform housekeeping as needed.

• Installing grounding infrastructure per local code and  specifications, determining the ground source, selecting grounding hardware, installing telecommunications bonding backbone (TBB), connecting TMGB and TGB to TBB, connecting the protector ground to TMGB, performing grounding test, labeling, and document grounding infrastructure.

• Installing cable support systems by verifying the load of the cable support system, adequacy of structure to support load, cable support installation access, separating high voltage from low voltage cables per standards, verifying materials and tools needed,

mount supports and supporting hardware (J-hooks, D-rings), boreholes to create pathway for cable support system and/or sleeve, mount cable support system, avoid EMI and RFI sources, label cable support system, and red-line prints.

• Preparing station locations (wall outlets, floor outlets, power pole/modular furniture) by determining floor construction (cellular, raised, poke-through, under carpet), outlet locations, cable routing method, materials, and tools needed, verifying pathway, installing conduit or flex, install outlet boxes or floor monuments, install pull string, and performing housekeeping of area.

• Installing horizontal station cable (conduit, open ceiling) by performing estimation of length of run, fish tape through conduit, fish tape pull string, use of conduit lubricant, ensuring sufficient slack at both ends, verifying tensile strength of string, verifying manufacturer's specs for cable limitations, routing string through support (manually, gopher pole), using cable protection for transition, attaching string to cable, attaching trailer string, pull cables properly to maintain bend radius, label, and document cables.

• Installing backbone cable (from top floor down, from bottom floor up) by verifying proper run and cable length, proper attachment of reel brake to cable reel, attaching string to cable, attaching pulleys, verifying pull rope is installed, connecting cable to rope, verify tugger and pulley is secure, communicating with co-workers for routing, routing, and securing in closets, label, and document backbone cables.

• Installing optical fiber cable by performing appropriate tests to ensure fiber integrity, installing, and securing inner ducts/pull rope, set up pulling sleeve to maintain proper bend radius, attaching pulling medium to fiber, creating figure eight slack, securing work area for pulling, pull fiber, secure cable per manufactures specs, label, and document fiber cable.

• Installing Firestopping (floor, walls) to meet code and  specs between firewalls and between floors and verifying plenum and non-plenum environments.

• Performing pre-termination functions by organizing cables by destination, forming and dressing cables, determining the length and slack of needed cable, re-labeling and cutting back, using proper cable management, documenting, and labeling cable sheath length.

• Performing IDC, UTP, and STP terminations on cross-connects and patch panels by determining method and length of sheath removal to ANSI/TIA/EIA and manufacture specs, grounding and bonding cable as needed, separate binders, fan and form cable or binders, perform strain relief, perform termination per ANSI/TIA/EIA and manufacture specs, assemble termination hardware per manufacture specs, label and document patch panels or designation strips, and perform housekeeping as needed.

• Performing optical fiber termination (multimode, ST, SC, LC, MPO) by selecting proper termination kit, determining the method and length of sheath removal, removing sheath as per manufacture specs, separating and identifying binder groups or buffer tubes, clean and separate fibers and furcate, perform grounding and bonding as needed, perform termination per manufacture specs, assemble termination hardware per manufacture specs, install loose fiber and connector into termination hardware, label and document fiber cable per ANSI/TIA/EIA and  specs.

• Perform fiber splicing (fusion and mechanical) by determining appropriate splicing method, acquiring proper closure or transition splice box and appropriate tool kit, assemble closure or splice box hardware, document sheath length markings, determine method and length of sheath removal/assembly, remove sheath to manufacture specs, clean cable core as required, separate tie off binder groups, clean and furcate, perform grounding and bonding as required, load fan out or buffer tubes in splice trays, place splice protection on individual fiber, prepare fiber (strip, clean, and cleave), perform fusion or mechanical splice, secure splice in protective device, store excess fiber and place

splice in tray, label, close tray and place in splice enclosure, test per ANSI/TIA/EIA and  specs, and perform housekeeping.

• Performing copper cable testing by disconnecting cabling from an electronic device, calibrating machine and selecting cable type and testing per manufactures specs, calibrate NVP, set parameters for cable type, perform the following tests; wireline map, insertion loss, NEXT, ACR, length, DC resistance, capacitance, characteristic impedance, continuity, cable fault, attenuation, and document test results.

• Performing optical fiber testing by disconnecting active equipment, obtaining appropriate light source for single mode or multimode and power meter, set source and meter for proper wavelength, test jumpers and couplers, clean connectors on test jumpers, use jumpers to obtain power reference per ANSI/TIA/EIA standards, connect light source to one end and meter to other end of fiber, record power meter reading, calculate loss, and document results.

• Performing copper cable troubleshooting by gathering relevant information, verifying problem, clarifying problem, performing visual inspection, disconnecting active equipment, running tests with meter, identify failed results, know corrective action to take, retest and document.

• Performing fiber cable troubleshooting by disconnecting active equipment, verify test equipment setup understanding and use OLTS, compare power meter reading to standard or specs, determine source problem if loss is too high or no light, take corrective action on cable and retest, and document findings

• Performing retrofit (identify active circuits and cutover) by requesting information from customer, visually determining if circuit is attached to active device, hand trace line, check for existing documentation, check labels and tags, use appropriate test set for copper or fiber, inspect terminations or jumpers, use toners and probe on spare pair, and label ends of cable.

Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills:

Specific technical skills required or desired for this position include:

• Experience in a 24x7x365 environment providing network and system technical, operational support on mission-critical voice, data, and communication system infrastructure.

• Knowledge to develop job plans in a complex network and communications system environment.

• Knowledge of voice and data enterprise network technologies (TDM and IP based).

• Knowledge of project, presentation, and office programs (e.g., CAD, Microsoft Project Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

• Knowledge of network topologies by identifying types of LANs (Ethernet, Token Ring, etc.), standards associated with each network, wiring configurations for network/systems, standards for telephone systems, and wiring configuration for telephone networks.

• Knowledge of network components by identifying concentrators, hubs, servers, routers, and bridges.

• Knowledge of codes and standards by identifying the purpose of ANSI/T A/EIA, NEC, NFPA, IEEE, and ISO standards (568-C, 569-B, 606-B, 942, etc.).

• Knowledge and understanding of OSHA guidelines.

• Knowledge of administrative tasks to include inventory and order materials and supplies, document test results, document as-builts, enter/download data into computer, complete daily reports and logs, complete safety logs, and complete productivity reports.

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with customers, coworkers/supervisors.