Central Office Technician – Telecom/ Virginia and Pennsylvania

Central Office Technician –  Telecom
Location: Virginia and PennsylvaniaSalary: $32.00–$35.00/hour  (Contract)
Multi-Site Field Project in Virginia and Pennsylvania

Our client is ramping up for a large-scale telecommunications Central Office deployment and network migration project across Virginia and Pennsylvania.

We are seeking experienced Central Office Technicians with hands-on carrier telecom experience to join the project. This is not a survey-only position.

Technicians will support multiple phases of the deployment, including site surveys, migration readiness, equipment installation, cabling, integration and scheduled cut-over activities.

What You'll Do

• Work inside active carrier Central Offices and wire centers.
  
• Survey and document existing telecom equipment, racks, bays, cabling, power and connectivity.
  
• Trace circuits, cables, cross-connects and termination points.
  
• Verify existing equipment and network records against actual field conditions.
  
• Assess rack space, power, grounding and cabling requirements for new equipment.
  
• Rack, mount, power, ground, cable and label new customer-provided network equipment.
  
• Support network migrations, equipment swaps and cutovers.
  
• Perform post-installation documentation and connectivity validation.
  
• Follow customer engineering standards, MOPs, safety procedures and change-control requirements.
  
• Travel between assigned Central Office locations in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
  

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience working in telecommunications Central Offices, carrier wire centers or similar carrier facilities.
  
• Strong knowledge of Central Office equipment, racks/bays, shelves, cards, ports, patch panels and cross-connects.
  
• Experience tracing telecom circuits, cables and connections.
  
• Ability to read engineering records, equipment lists, rack elevations and network documentation.
  
• Experience working safely around live production telecom equipment.
  
• Central Office equipment installation experience including rack & stack, cabling, power and grounding.
  
• Ability to accurately document field conditions using Excel or electronic field tools.
  
• Willingness to travel among assigned project sites.
  

Highly Relevant Experience
Experience with any of the following is a strong plus:

• DACS/DCS and DSX environments.
  
• DS1/T1, DS3/T3 and SONET/OC-n.
  
• Legacy TDM and carrier transport equipment.
  
• Fiber/FDF and copper cross-connect environments.
  
• Ethernet and network-management connectivity.
  
• Circuit grooming, migration and decommissioning.
  
• Maintenance-window or hot-cut activities.
  
• Cisco, Ciena, Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Adtran or other carrier-grade telecom equipment.
  

Project Details

• This is a multi-site field deployment supporting Central Office locations throughout Virginia and Pennsylvania.
  
• Work schedules will vary by site and project phase, and some migration/cut-over activities may take place during overnight maintenance windows.
  

Work Location: On the road