As the telecommunications technician you’re responsible for installing, testing, maintaining and repairing telecommunications equipment, including fibre optics, microwaves, radios and satellites.
Once telecommunications equipment is installed, telecommunications technicians demonstrate equipment to customers, explain how to use it and respond to inquiries and complaints.
Telecommunications technicians includes the following specialties:
- Telephone installers and repairers
- Switch network installers and repairers
- Telecommunications service testers
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Oil and gas
- Sub-sector Exploration and production, Pipelines, Oil and gas services, Oil sands, Offshore
- Environment Primarily outdoor work
- Average Salary $60,000 to $90,000
- Education High school diploma
In this occupation, activities may include:
- Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
- Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Education
- Completion of high school is typically required.
- Telephone and switch network installers and repairers are required to either complete a three- or four-year apprenticeship program or have a combination of over three-years of work experience and some related courses.
- Telecommunications equipment technicians are required to either complete a post-secondary electrical and electronics program and have several months of on-the-job training, or complete a three- or four-year apprenticeship program.
Certification
- Trade certification for communication technicians is available, but voluntary, in Alberta, Britich Columbia, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Nature of work and environment conditions specific to oil and natural gas include:
- Travel likely required
- Primarily outdoor work
- Physical work
- Safety-sensitive environment
- Work away from home/in camps
- Customer and personal service
- Telecommunications
- Computers and electronics
- English language
- Mathematics
- Public safety and security
- Mechanical
- Engineering and technology
- Education and training
- Troubleshooting
- Sub-sector Construction, Start-up and commissioning
- Environment Primarily outdoor work
- Average Salary Equal to oil and gas
- Education High school diploma
- Skills Upgrading None
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Direct
Good news! The skills gained as a telecommunications technician in oil and natural gas are directly transferable to the construction and start-up and commissioning project life cycle phases of industrial construction and maintenance in energy.
In this occupation, activities may include:
- Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
- Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Education
- Completion of high school is typically required.
- Telephone and switch network installers and repairers are required to either complete a three- or four-year apprenticeship program or have a combination of over three-years of work experience and some related courses.
- Telecommunications equipment technicians are required to either complete a post-secondary electrical and electronics program and have several months of on-the-job training, or complete a three- or four-year apprenticeship program.
Certification
- Trade certification for communication technicians is available, but voluntary, in Alberta, Britich Columbia, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Nature of work and environment conditions specific to industrial construction and maintenance include:
- Shiftwork/variable work hours (construction | start-up and commissioning)
- Travel required (construction | start-up and commissioning)
- Work away from home/in camps (construction | start-up and commissioning)
- Primarily outdoor work (construction)
- Primarily indoor/office work (start-up and commissioning)
- Physical work (construction)
- Agile/flexible approach to work (start-up and commissioning)
- Temporary/project-to-project work (construction | start-up and commissioning)
- Lower-risk tolerant culture (start-up and commissioning)
- Safety-sensitive environment (construction | start-up and commissioning)
- Transition to a similar level (construction | start-up and commissioning)
Nature of work and environment conditions specific to oil and natural gas include:
- Travel likely required
- Primarily outdoor work
- Physical work
- Safety-sensitive environment
- Work away from home/in camps
- Customer and personal service
- Telecommunications
- Computers and electronics
- English language
- Mathematics
- Public safety and security
- Mechanical
- Engineering and technology
- Education and training
- Troubleshooting
- Environment Primarily outdoor work
- Average Salary Equal to oil and gas
- Education High school diploma
- Skills Upgrading None
-
Direct
Good news! The skills gained as a telecommunications technician in oil and natural gas are directly transferable to digitization and automation in energy.
In this occupation, activities may include:
- Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
- Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Education
- Completion of high school is typically required.
- Telephone and switch network installers and repairers are required to either complete a three- or four-year apprenticeship program or have a combination of over three-years of work experience and some related courses.
- Telecommunications equipment technicians are required to either complete a post-secondary electrical and electronics program and have several months of on-the-job training, or complete a three- or four-year apprenticeship program.
Certification
- Trade certification for communication technicians is available, but voluntary, in Alberta, Britich Columbia, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Nature of work and environment conditions specific to digitization and automation include:
- Shiftwork/variable work hours
- Travel required
- Work away from home/in camps
- Primarily outdoor work
- Physical work
- Temporary/project-to-project work
- Safety-sensitive environment
- Transition to a similar level
Nature of work and environment conditions specific to oil and natural gas include:
- Travel likely required
- Primarily outdoor work
- Physical work
- Safety-sensitive environment
- Work away from home/in camps
- Customer and personal service
- Telecommunications
- Computers and electronics
- English language
- Mathematics
- Public safety and security
- Mechanical
- Engineering and technology
- Education and training
- Troubleshooting
