Splicer Technician
3 weeks ago
Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 50 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**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)