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Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.
- Median pay
- $70,500
- per year
- 10-year outlook
- -3.1%
- Declining
- Typical entry
- High school diploma or equivalent
Key skills
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Complex Problem Solving
- Operations Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
- Coordination
- Operation and Control
What they do
- Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.
- 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.
- Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
- Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
- 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.
- Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
- String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches, and pull lines to proper tension.
- Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
- Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches.
Majors that lead here
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Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS, Employment Projections) and O*NET, used under CC BY 4.0.