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Central Office Technician – Telecom
Location: Pennsylvania
Salary: $32.00–$35.00/hour
Multi-Site Field Project
Our client is ramping up for a large-scale telecommunications Central Office deployment and network migration project across Pennsylvania
We are seeking experienced Central Office Technicians with hands-on carrier telecom experience to join the project. This is not a survey-only position.
Technicians will support multiple phases of the deployment, including site surveys, migration readiness, equipment installation, cabling, integration and scheduled cut-over activities.
What You'll Do
- Work inside active carrier Central Offices and wire centers.
- Survey and document existing telecom equipment, racks, bays, cabling, power and connectivity.
- Trace circuits, cables, cross-connects and termination points.
- Verify existing equipment and network records against actual field conditions.
- Assess rack space, power, grounding and cabling requirements for new equipment.
- Rack, mount, power, ground, cable and label new customer-provided network equipment.
- Support network migrations, equipment swaps and cutovers.
- Perform post-installation documentation and connectivity validation.
- Follow customer engineering standards, MOPs, safety procedures and change-control requirements.
- Travel between assigned Central Office locations in Pennsylvania.
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience working in telecommunications Central Offices, carrier wire centers or similar carrier facilities.
- Strong knowledge of Central Office equipment, racks/bays, shelves, cards, ports, patch panels and cross-connects.
- Experience tracing telecom circuits, cables and connections.
- Ability to read engineering records, equipment lists, rack elevations and network documentation.
- Experience working safely around live production telecom equipment.
- Central Office equipment installation experience including rack & stack, cabling, power and grounding.
- Ability to accurately document field conditions using Excel or electronic field tools.
- Willingness to travel among assigned project sites.
Highly Relevant Experience
Experience with any of the following is a strong plus:
- DACS/DCS and DSX environments.
- DS1/T1, DS3/T3 and SONET/OC-n.
- Legacy TDM and carrier transport equipment.
- Fiber/FDF and copper cross-connect environments.
- Ethernet and network-management connectivity.
- Circuit grooming, migration and decommissioning.
- Maintenance-window or hot-cut activities.
- Cisco, Ciena, Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Adtran or other carrier-grade telecom equipment.
Project Details
- This is a multi-site field deployment supporting Central Office locations throughout Pennsylvania
- Work schedules will vary by site and project phase, and some migration/cut-over activities may take place during overnight maintenance windows.
Work Location: On the road
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