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Fiber Splicing Technician
Hess Broadband
Pennsylvania, USA
Full-time
Mid · 3+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered Yesterday
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- Splicing, testing, troubleshooting and restoring OSP fiber optic networks
- Working extensively with both loose-tube and ribbonized fiber optic cable
- Performing both single-fiber fusion splicing and mass fusion splicing
- Building fiber splice enclosures from start to finish - taking bare cable through cable preparation, buffer/ribbon preparation, routing, splicing, testing, sealing, bonding and final mounting
- Working with a variety of cable sizes, fiber counts, splice closures, cabinets and network configurations
- Using OTDRs, optical power meters, light sources, VFLs and other fiber test equipment to locate and diagnose network problems
- Troubleshooting fiber cuts, high-loss events, bad splices, macro-bends, damaged cable, connector issues and other optical impairments
- Performing planned network cuts, migrations, rearrangements, maintenance and service-window work
- Responding to outages and getting active networks back online quickly, safely and correctly
- Working in handholes, manholes, splice cases, cabinets, terminals, customer-premise locations and other OSP environments
- Reading and working from splice diagrams, fiber assignments, network drawings and OTDR traces
- Keeping accurate splice records, test results and field documentation
- Supporting other technicians in the field
- Coordinating with our construction teams, project managers, customers, network operator's NOC and service technicians, and other network operations personnel when needed
- Participation in an on-call rotation
- Night work during scheduled customer service windows
- Emergency service-restoration work
- Occasional weekend and holiday work
- Regional travel to customer and project locations
- Extended hours when necessary during major outages, network cutovers or restoration events
- Valid driver’s license
- 3+ Years experience working in “live splice closures”
- Proven ability to independently perform all duties (splicing, testing, operate lift truck)
- Hands-on experience with aerial and underground fiber network deployments
- OSHA 10-Hour certification, or the ability to obtain it; OSHA-30 or OSHA-40 training is a plus
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