Land Cable Engineer – London
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- £43,000 to £48,000
- Permanent
- Vikki Bacchioni
- 023 9231 5072
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I am working with a large telecommunications company in London and they need a Land Cable Engineer to join the team.
There will be a lot of travel in this position to worldwide sites around 40-50% of the time depending on the projects.
Responsibilities include:
- Implementation of site surveys, including earth resistivity measurements
- Engineering design of land cable and system earth installation requirements
- Production of drawings for installation, including land route diagrams
- Identification of suitable resources, and local subcontract management
- Fibre splicing, jointing, and testing of land cable, beach joints and system earths
- Unrepeatered system testing, both on land and at sea
- Cable termination to ASN terminal station equipment
- Project resource planning, cost efficiency, and liaison with Customer representative
- Preparing site specific scopes of work, and their associated procedures
- Completing H&S risk assessments, site survey, on site and as-built reporting
- Liaising with the ASN’s Calais cable factory, Purchasing, Project Management and Logistics Teams
Experience / Qualifications
- Knowledge of fibre optics and electrics
- 2 years or more relevant hands-on work experience with preferably an engineering background
- Good communication skills, and dedication to collaborative work
- Project Management, Problem-solving skills, and a familiarity with basic IT packages
- Training will be provided for: ASN land-based jointing, cable termination, and working in confined spaces
- Self-motivated, flexible individual, excited by the challenge of installing fibre optic cable for the world’s leading submarine telecommunications company.
This person should have trunk network/large exchange experience on big projects and not FTTP.
Applicants must have an existing right to live and work in the UK and live within a commutable distance to London or be prepared to relocate at own expense.
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