Jobs / Construction, installation, and repair / 49-9052.00
Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.
- US jobs
- 97,720
- Median wage
- $74,330 a year
- Job family
- Construction, installation, and repair
Can agents do the work of telecommunications line installers and repairers?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Construction, installation, and repair: Unmeasured (no change in 12 months)
No direct benchmark gives a success rate.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 30%Connect components or supply lines to equipment or toolsNot measured
- 9%Perform general construction or extraction activitiesNot measured
- 7%Climb equipment or structuresNot measured
- 7%Test performance of equipment or systemsNot measured
- 5%Operate transportation equipment or vehiclesNot measured
- 5%Build structuresNot measured
- 5%Install commercial or production equipmentNot measured
- 4%Determine resource needs of projects or operationsNot measured
Unmeasured territory
No benchmark in this atlas covers this work yet.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
- Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
- Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
- Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment, such as digital subscriber line modems.
- Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces.
- Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches.
- Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.
- Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
- Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories.
- Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment.
- Place insulation over conductors, or seal splices with moisture-proof covering.
- Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels.
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