Splicer Technician

**Work site environment**:

- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces

**Work setting**:

- Installation
- Urban area
- Maintenance
- Rural area
- Repair
- Telecommunications company

**Tasks**:

- Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment
- Install trunking systems, circuits and equipment
- Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
- Read and interpret blueprints
- Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
- Inspect and test trunking systems
- Splice, join and connect wires

**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Fibre optics
- Copper

**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
- Willing to travel

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

**Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots

**Personal suitability**:

- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits

**Long term benefits**:

- Life insurance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)