Network Construction Technician

Liberty Latin America Communications, Inc.•Bonsall, CA

About The Position

The Network Construction Technician installs, splices, maintains, tests, troubleshoots, and restores the company’s fiber-optic outside plant network. The work covers aerial, underground, access, transport, power, active, and passive fiber infrastructure and supports preventive maintenance, network construction, service activation, field engineering, and 24/7 outage restoration across outside plant, hub, transport, and customer-premises environments. The technician uses safe work practices, maintains accurate records and inventory, coordinates with internal teams and contractors, and supports reliable network performance and customer service. Duties include installing and repairing fiber facilities; diagnosing outages; commissioning and testing fiber equipment; performing field engineering and documentation; overseeing contractor work; maintaining tools, vehicles, and equipment; and responding to standby, emergency, and disaster-recovery assignments. Work may involve travel across the operating system, extended hours, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
Demonstrated experience using fiber-optic test equipment and performing field troubleshooting, splicing, restoration, or construction activities.
Working knowledge of fiber-optic, electrical, electronic, access, and optical transport-network fundamentals.
Ability to read and interpret system maps, construction prints, fiber assignments, schematics, test results, and technical documentation.
Ability to perform fiber splicing, enclosure preparation, tray organization, breakout management, testing, fault isolation, and restoration.
Ability to communicate effectively in Spanish and English with customers, peers, contractors, and leadership.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and applicable workforce, mapping, ticketing, and documentation systems.
Valid Puerto Rico driver’s license appropriate for the assigned vehicle; commercial or heavy-vehicle authorization may be required based on assignment.
Availability for standby duty, extended hours, nights, weekends, holidays, travel, and emergency response, including post-disaster restoration.
Ability to work independently, prioritize multiple assignments, and complete outage restoration within required timeframes.
Knowledge of applicable company standards and relevant electrical, OSHA, FCC, traffic-safety, and telecommunications requirements.
Successful candidates will be required to complete an assessment, background check, and drug test.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree or technical credential in electronics, electrical technology, telecommunications, fiber optics, or a related field.
Two to four years of relevant technical experience in telecommunications, outside plant, fiber optics, optical transport, or network maintenance.
SCTE certification, fiber-optic certification, or equivalent industry training.

Responsibilities

Install, splice, terminate, test, maintain, and repair fiber-optic facilities, including backbone, distribution, access, drop, enclosure, patch-panel, and customer-premises components.
Diagnose and restore fiber network outages using approved test equipment, including OTDRs, fusion splicers, optical power meters, optical loss test sets, visual fault locators, fiber identifiers, voltmeters, and VOM/DMM devices.
Install, commission, configure, and troubleshoot active and passive fiber equipment, including lasers, optical transmitters and receivers, EDFAs, WDM devices, couplers, splitters, power supplies, batteries, media converters, ONTs, GPON equipment, and optical transport devices.
Calculate optical power budgets and fiber losses; verify transmit and receive levels; perform insertion-loss, reflectance, continuity, battery-load, standby-operation, and other required performance tests.
Perform preventive maintenance and corrective repairs at hubs, fiber distribution hubs, optical transport sites, cabinets, enclosures, and outside plant facilities.
Activate and support residential, business, and advanced services, including dedicated point-to-point circuits, virtual fiber circuits, GPON solutions, Fiber on Demand, transport rings, and on-premises links with defined service-level requirements.
Coordinate with network operations, head-end, business technical support, network administration, voice administration, construction, design, and field leadership to provision, activate, turn up, and restore services.
Perform field engineering, including site assessment, route and equipment-location validation, constructability review, field markups, and recommended revisions to strand and design maps.
Prepare or validate work prints, job-cost estimates, bills of material, restoration plans, as-built information, test results, outage records, and other operational documentation.
Monitor contractor work from assignment through completion; verify progress, workmanship, materials, compliance with company specifications, and documentation supporting invoice processing.
Install temporary repairs on backbone, distribution, access, and drop fiber facilities and complete permanent restoration within established timeframes and quality standards.
Operate bucket trucks, aerial-lift devices, ladders, and approved tools; climb poles, towers, and structures as required and in accordance with company safety procedures.
Maintain the assigned vehicle, tools, test equipment, materials, and daily inventory in serviceable condition; report shortages, damage, or calibration needs.
Participate in standby rotation and respond to outages, emergencies, and disaster-recovery assignments on a 24/7 basis, including travel across the operating system as business needs require.
Use required personal protective equipment and comply with company standards and applicable electrical, safety, traffic-control, and telecommunications requirements.
Demonstrate the Customer First philosophy and comply with the Liberty Latin America Code of Conduct, company policies, safety standards, and procedures.
Perform other duties assigned to support network reliability and business operations.