According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment. | 88% |
| Explain cable service to subscribers after installation, and collect any installation fees due. | 87% |
| Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories. | 86% |
| Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment. | 84% |
| Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions. | 84% |
| Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment. | 83% |
| Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces. | 81% |
| Place insulation over conductors, or seal splices with moisture-proof covering. | 80% |
| Clean or maintain tools or test equipment. | 78% |
| String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches, and pull lines to proper tension. | 78% |
| Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels. | 78% |
| Install equipment such as amplifiers or repeaters to maintain the strength of communications transmissions. | 74% |
| Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches. | 74% |
| Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks. | 74% |
| Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches. | 69% |
| Use a variety of construction equipment to complete installations, such as digger derricks, trenchers, or cable plows. | 69% |
| Dig trenches for underground wires or cables. | 66% |
| Fill and tamp holes, using cement, earth, and tamping devices. | 66% |
| Participate in the construction or removal of telecommunication towers or associated support structures. | 57% |
| Dig holes for power poles, using power augers or shovels, set poles in place with cranes, and hoist poles upright, using winches. | 56% |
