List of Career Duties Under Telecom And Telephone Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER TELECOM AND TELEPHONE BUSINESS SECTOR
Assembler Career Duties
- Wire switchboards, operating tables, and other telegraph apparatus to specifications, using handtools soldering iron
- May test wiring installations, using meters.
Assembler Equipment Career Duties
- Wire switchboards, operating tables, and other telegraph apparatus to specifications, using handtools soldering iron
- May test wiring installations, using meters.
Assignment Clerk Career Duties
- Compile records authorizations to facilitate installation or rewiring of telephone or telegraph lines resulting from subscribers address changes or other changes in service
- Select, assigns and posts cable-assignment data telephone numbers on service orders
- Route orders to service department, information operators and directory-compilation personnel for action
- Review completed disconnection orders to update cable-assignment records
- Prepare statistical reports assembles data for subscriber-analysis studies, as directed
- May request field investigation by Facility Examiner tel. tel. where records do not indicate available facilities for subscriber service.
Automatic equipment Technician Career Duties
- Analyze problems and repairs manual and automatic telegraphic transmitting receiving apparatus, like teletypewriters, facsimile-recording devices, and switching equipment
- Test and adjusts equipment, using testing devices, like signal generators & ohmmeters, following blueprints and wiring diagrams using handtools
- Test & regulates telegraph repeaters [Testing-And-Regulating Technician tel. tel. ]
- When repairing and maintaining equipment in branch offices, may be designated Operations Technician tel. tel.
- May be designated according to type of equipment maintained or repaired as Printer Maintainer tel. and tel. , Telegraphic-Typewriter Repairer tel. tel. .
Automatic Maintainer Career Duties
- Test and adjusts telegraph repeaters terminal apparatus to maintain continuity of service
- Operate test board switchboard composed of testing equipment and other testing devices to trace & diagnose wiring and circuit deficiencies between stations [Trouble Locator, Test Desk tel. tel. ]
- Replace or regulates repeaters, relays, switches and other equipment, using handtools
- Communicate with other telegraph offices by teletypewriter equipment concerning operational problems
- May be designated according to equipment tested and adjusted as Telegraph-Repeater Technician tel. tel. .
Cable Dispatcher Career Duties
- Establish and reroutes telegraph submarine cable circuits to make sure flow of messages
- Order irregular routing of telegrams to prevent congestion or wire shortage
- Receive reports of delays in transmission of messages and issues orders to facilitate transmission
- Direct flow of messages during emergencies, like storms, floods, and fires.
Cable Engineer Outside Plant Career Duties
- Plan, directs, and coordinates activities concerned with laying repairing submarine telecommunication cables
- Devise plans for laying cable lines, taking into consideration ocean currents ocean depths
- Determine where & how cables should be laid decides such matters as where to place buoys, where to cut cable, what grapnel to use, what length of rope to use for a given depth, what type of cable to use and what route to follow
- Keep charts and records to show depth location of all cables laid
- Analyze test figures made when cable fault occurs to determine exact location of cable break
- Oversee work of locating repairing damaged cables.
Cable Tester Career Duties
- Test insulated wires in aerial, underground, or submarine multiple-conductor cables to define continuity, insulation, and correctness of cable loading, using standard testing procedures impedance, resistance, and frequency oscillating meters
- Listen for sound of escaping insulating gas from hole in cable sheathing to locate defects in cable
- Determine continuity, insulation, capacity imbalance and cable loading, using meters, like capacity resistance bridges
- Prepare report identifying location cause of malfunctions
- May drive motor vehicle along route of cable, climb poles, and ride in cable car from pole to pole on cable strand to perform tests
- May direct Cable Splicer construction, tel. tel., utilities in correction of malfunction.
Central office Equipment Engineer Career Duties
- Direct implementation of planning schedule for installation of central office toll or local switching facilities, or interoffice transmission facilities equipment, like radio, TV, camera, repeaters
- Review planning schedule or equipment request data on projected traffic to determine quantities of specific types of equipment required
- Plan arrangement of equipment, prepares cost estimates for equipment installation and submits data to management for authorization approval
- Prepare drawings equipment specifications for installation
- Monitor installation activities to solve any problems concerning arrangement or specifications
- Assign equipment installation expenditures to specific program or project accounts
- Close out installation authorization when equipment has been tested put in service.
Central Office Facilities Planning Engineer Career Duties
- Conduct studies to develop data required for planning central office switching facilities, and prepares plans and schedules for acquisition and installation of equipment to meet long term current relief requirements
- Conduct studies to accumulate information on current services, equipment capacities, current traffic data and estimated acquisition installation costs
- Analyze data & forecasts on subscriber demands projected traffic for defining type, size and quantity of switching equipment required
- Plan and schedules equipment acquisition, and installation, considering such factors as availability, current future costs, and other economic projections
- Review implementation schedules on continuing basis to make sure switching facilities have capacity within objective limits for subscriber demands
- Prepare modifications on implementation schedules for acquisition installation of switching equipment due to unforeseen increase or decrease of demands for services.