Fiber Technician at Swift Networks

Job Summary 

• Due to rapid expansion, we are looking for a qualified candidate to fill a creative technical position as we hope to maintain our status as the leading broadband connectivity services provider in Nigeria.
• Successful employee(s) will be responsible for the installation, monitoring, testing, and maintenance of fiber optics cable links and follow operational procedures, both in technical facilities. Performs complex technical duties and escalates issues as needed.
• Follows standard procedures and guidelines. Uses individual expertise to solve difficult technical and system problems.
• This job requires working weekends and various shift work to include holidays.

Responsibilities 
You shall perform any of the following based on needs:

• Testing and diagnostic procedures on equipment according to published equipment standards
• Fiber optics cable installation/deployment projects.
• Supervise external fiber optics contractors to ensure they maintain maximum standards on the field and deliver projects according to specifications.
• Locates fiber optics cable, monitors construction activities, fiber splicing, and termination;
• Installation of routers, bridges, multiplexers, concentrators, etc.
• Periodic maintenance on company transmission support equipment.
• Maintenance of new and existing fiber optics link circuits through troubleshooting and fault isolation techniques
• Utilization of local and remote test systems to isolate and resolve site circuit outages.
• Maintaining a database of new and existing fiber optics links and circuits.
• Coordination of testing and turn up of service with all involved providers until the site/link is up and working.

Fiber test procedures:

• OTDR
• Power Loss
• Reflectance
• Connector Inspection
• Fiber Inventory Management System (FIMs)
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Requirements
You will need to have:

• ND/HND (min. grade- upper credit) with a minimum of 5 years or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with PC word processing and communications software.
• Extensive experience in splicing fiber optics cables using different fusion splicer machines
• Extensive experience in the use of OTDR machine to locate faults on fiber optics cable
• Extensive experience in new fiber optics cable deployment projects.
• Extensive experience in understanding and analyzing OTDR trace readings.
• Hands-on experience in using various software to draw as-built diagrams of completed fiber optics cable deployment projects.
• Extensive knowledge of fiber optics deployment civil work standards.
• Working knowledge of plotting fibre optics routes on Google Earth to produce KMZ/KML
• Security background investigation for site access may be required.
• Must be able to perform physical requirements of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, including, but not limited to, perceiving differences in wire cable colors, moving and/or lifting items such as ladders,
• Willingness to work odd shifts day, night, and weekends.

Even better if you have experience with the following:

• A competent level of (site-specific) equipment knowledge including, but not limited to, transmission equipment manufactured by Cisco, Siemens, and Huawei.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings and providing as-built drawings to engineering.
• Working knowledge of Customer Premise/site Equipment installation and troubleshooting
• Fiber Splice and Cable Preparation Procedure
• Aerial cable placement
• Underground cable placement procedure.