Job roles

Telecoms job roles

Nowadays the Telecoms sector is difficult to separate from the IT sector, since many of the new technologies use broadband data networks carrying high volumes of multimedia traffic.

Because technologies are changing so rapidly, constant up-skilling is essential, with skills traditionally regarded as being IT rather than telecoms based now being required.  As with the IT sector, business and interpersonal skills are becoming more important.

We are currently working on providing written job roles that are specific to the Telecoms industry, so please visit this section again during the coming months.

The main job roles in the Telecoms industry include:

• Aerial rigging
• Equipment wirer and assembler
• Exchange power technician
• Internal network construction
• Installer of radio equipment in cars
• International networks
• Mobile switching engineer
• Network management
• Network planning
• Narrowband and wideband planning
• Radio base station engineer
• Radio frequency engineer
• Radio repair technician
• Radio systems design engineer
• Satellite communications
• Systems production supervisor
• Field operations including:
• Fibre optic installation and configuration
• Fibre optic repair and renewal
• 21CN Network technician
• Core access network technician
• Installation and support technician
• Customer support  

Last modified: 05 Jul 2007