Rigger - Telecommunications

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
**Work setting**:

- Installation
- Urban area
- Maintenance
- Rural area
- Cable television company
- Remote location
- Repair
- Telecommunications company
- Telephone company
- Service
- Various locations
- Willing to relocate
- On-site customer service
**Tasks**:

- Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment
- Test equipment to locate transmission faults
- Install trunking systems, circuits and equipment
- Instruct apprentices
- Complete and maintain test and service reports
- 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
- Repair or replace defective telephone equipment
- Repair or replace faulty cables, power suppliers and amplifiers
- Maintain and repair aerial and underground transmission systems
- Inspect, test and repair cable signals and associated equipment
- Determine work assignments
- Connect, disconnect and relocate cable outlets
- Install cable modems and software to enable Internet access
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week