Splicer Technician

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
• Underground
• Confined spaces

**Work setting**

• Installation
• Urban area
• Maintenance
• Rural area
• Remote location
• Repair
• Service
• Various locations

**Tasks**

• Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment
• Test equipment to locate transmission faults
• Install trunking systems, circuits and equipment
• Complete and maintain test and service reports
• 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

**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**

• Working at heights training

**Equipment and machinery experience**

• Fibre optics
• Copper

**Security and safety**

• Criminal record check

**Transportation/travel information**

• Valid driver's licence
• Vehicle supplied by employer
• Willing to travel
• Travel expenses paid by employer
• Willing to travel for extended periods

**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
• Disability benefits
• Health care plan
• Vision care benefits

**Long term benefits**

• Life insurance
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)