Cable Maintenance Technician - (Bluffton, SC)

General Description of Position: Splices, maintains and repairs all underground cables used to supply Telephone, CATV and High Speed Data services. Duties & Responsibilities: Including but not limited to the following. Splices, maintains and repairs copper, coaxial and fiber cables from Central Office or Head End to the de-mark box located at the customer premises. Assists in testing of fiber, coaxial and copper cables; uses various fault locating equipment to isolate source of trouble or complaint, including forward and reverse testing of HFC plant. Digs with shovel to expose severed or damaged cable. May make sketch of bad or damaged cable to send to Engineering for replacement or upgrade of cable. Locates and marks all buried cables to avoid damage by other utilities, companies or persons; uses locator equipment such as Rycom (model 8831) and Dynatel (model 573A). Reads and interprets OTDR and fiber optic power meters and coaxial (db) power meter.