Customer Service Technician

Job Description

Brightspeed is looking for a Customer Service Technician to join our team! As a Customer Service Technician, you will be performing installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of high-speed internet, video and voice networks including associated wiring and equipment.

You will also be maintaining and repairing outside plant facilities within assigned geographic service areas.

As a Customer Service Technician, you may be required to work varying shifts that include mandatory overtime, weekends, and holidays.

As a Customer Service Technician your responsibilities will include :

• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting of high-speed internet, video and voice networks including associated wiring and equipment
• Performing maintenance and repair on outside plant facilities
• Climbing poles, using a shovel and pick to dig up and bury cable, working in utility access holes or controlled environmental vaults (CEV), and locating buried telephone cables
• Observing all safety rules and regulations
• Assisting other technical personnel in the performance of their duties when requested
• Actively supporting sales and marketing related activities
• Directing customer facing work and sales referrals

Qualifications

WHAT IT TAKES TO CATCH OUR EYE

• High School diploma (or equivalent) or higher
• Ability to distinguish colors on facilities
• Ability to handle 28 foot extension ladders (up to 75 lbs. routine work) and utility access hole covers (up to 150 lbs.)
• Ability to successfully complete service tech boot camp training, POTS / DSL installation / repair, cable splicing / maintenance, basic transmissions, air pressure, and HSI installations (self and full)
• Basic computer skills including MS Office applications
• Ability to work in confined spaces ( attics, crawl spaces, utility holes)
• Ability to work aloft ( ladder)
• Ability to work outside in all weather conditions and at various hours of the day / night
• A valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record
• Positive and professional appearance and demeanor when communicating the company’s products and services to our customers
• Accountability / dependability (on time and on load when scheduled and serve on call as needed)
• Teamwork (technical expertise developed to complete work efficiently to achieve work group key service measures)
• Active Listening (ability to take input from customers, APS and co-workers to problem solve and improve skills)
• Ability to ask relevant questions to ensure problems are resolved quickly or to clarify information or directions
• Active Learning (curious seeker of added information and actively works to improve skills and knowledge)

BONUS POINTS FOR :

• Prior experience as a customer facing telecom operations technician
• Basic electricity training / certification or documented equivalent work experience
• ADSL installation / repair experience (self / full installs)
• A+ / Net + Certified Required Soft Skills
• This position is part of a bargaining unit and represented by a union. Depending upon the applicable collective bargaining agreement under which you may be hired, you may be : (a) required to join the union and pay union dues as a condition of employment;

or, (b) required to pay union dues, but not join the union as a condition of employment; or (c) free to choose whether to join the union, but if you do join the union you would be obligated to pay union dues

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