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Rigger - Telecommunications

Employer

Canadian Network Installations

Date Posted

November 22, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Edmonton, AB
  • Earnings $32.00 to $38.33 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 32 to 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 10  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Dec 22, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Canadian Network Installations

Languages

English

Education

  • Other trades certificate or diploma
  • or equivalent experience

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • At heights

Work setting

  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Repair
  • Telecommunications company
  • Various locations
  • Relocation costs covered by employer
  • Service

Tasks

  • Install and maintain aerial and underground telephone equipment
  • Test equipment to locate transmission faults
  • Install trunking systems, circuits and equipment
  • Complete and maintain test and service reports
  • Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
  • Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
  • Splice, join and connect wires
  • Repair or replace defective telephone equipment

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Coaxial line
  • Fibre optics
  • Copper

Transportation/travel information

  • Vehicle supplied by employer
  • Willing to travel
  • Travel expenses paid by employer

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Attention to detail
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Physically demanding
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Manual dexterity

Personal suitability

  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Initiative
  • Team player

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Life insurance

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Other benefits

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Rigger - Telecommunications is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Telecommunications Line and Cable Workers
OBJECTIVE

Interest in precision working to splice and repair various types and sizes of telephone and other telecommunication cables, including single line, coaxial and fibre optic; may operate excavation machinery and other heavy equipment

innovative

Interest in compiling information to repair telecommunication lines, cables and various types of telephone and other telecommunication cables

methodical

Interest in speaking with other workers to co-ordinate the preparation and completion of assignments

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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