Fiber Technician at Swift Networks

Job Summary

• Successful employee(s) will be responsible for installation, monitoring, testing and maintenance of fibre optics cable links and follow operational procedures, both in technical facilities.
• Performs complex technical duties and escalates issues as needed. Follows standard procedures and guidelines. Uses individual expertise to solve difficult technical and system problems.

Responsibilities
You shall perform any of the following based on needs:

• Testing and diagnostic procedures on equipment according to published equipment standards
• Fibre optics cable installation/deployment projects.
• Supervise external fibre optics contractors to ensure they maintain maximum standards on the field and deliver projects according to specification.
• Locates fibre optics cable, monitors construction activities, fibre splicing and termination;
• Installation of routers, bridges, multiplexers, concentrators, etc.
• Periodic maintenance on the company transmission support equipment.
• Maintenance of new and existing fibre-optic link circuits through troubleshooting and fault isolation techniques
• Utilisation of local and remote test systems to isolate and resolve site circuit outages.
• Maintaining a database of new and existing fibre optics links and circuits.
• Coordination of testing and turn-up of service with all involved providers until the site/link is up and working.
• Fibre test procedures
  • OTDR
  • Power Loss
  • Reflectance
  • Connector Inspection
• Fiber Inventory Management system (FIMs)
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

What we are looking for
You will need to have:

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree / HND qualification with 3 - 4 years work experience.
• Experience with PC word processing and communications software.
• Extensive experience in splicing fibre optic cables using different fusion splicer machines
• Extensive experience in the use of the OTDR machine to locate faults on optical fibre cable
• Extensive experience in new fibre optics cable deployment projects.
• Extensive experience in understanding and analysing OTDR trace readings.
• Hands-on experience in using various software to draw as-built diagrams of a completed fibre optics cable deployment project.
• Extensive knowledge of fibre optics deployment and civil work standards.
• Working knowledge of plotting fibre optics routes on google earth to produce KMZ/KML
• Security background investigation for site access may be required.
• Must be able to perform physical requirements of the job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, including, but not limited to, perceiving differences in wire cable colors, moving and/or lifting items such as ladders,
• Willingness to work odd shifts, day, night and weekends.

Even better if you have experience with the following:

• A competent level of (site-specific) equipment knowledge, including, but not limited to, transmission equipment manufactured by Cisco, Siemens and Huawei.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings and providing as-built drawings to engineering.
• Working knowledge of Customer Premise/site Equipment installation and troubleshooting
• Fiber Splice and Cable Preparation procedure
• Aerial cable placement
• Underground cable placement procedure.