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Key Details:
- Position Title: Data Center / Central Office Fiber Technician
- Travel: Nationwide travel required | Assignments may last 4–6 weeks at a time
- Pay Rate: $28.00 to $32.00 per hour, depending on experience
- Employment Type: Full-Time | W2 | Long-Term Contract
- Schedule: Monday through Friday | Occasional weekends & overnight maintenance windows
Key Overview:
Broadstaff is seeking experienced Fiber Technicians to support a nationwide telecommunications network modernization project.
This position will focus on fiber migration, testing, troubleshooting, circuit tracing, and documentation within active central offices, data centers, and other telecommunications facilities.
The ideal candidate has strong hands-on fiber experience, can interpret OTDR test results, and is comfortable working independently while traveling extensively throughout the United States.
Key Qualifications:
- 3 or more years of fiber optic telecommunications experience
- Central office, data center, carrier, or similar network facility experience
- Hands-on experience installing, routing, tracing, labeling, and troubleshooting fiber optic cabling
- Proficiency using OTDRs, optical power meters, and fiber scopes
- Ability to interpret OTDR traces and identify bends, breaks, high-loss events, and other fiber impairments
- Ability to read fiber diagrams, network drawings, and circuit documentation
- Strong understanding of fiber handling, cleanliness, cable management, and testing practices
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout the United States
- Flexibility to work occasional overnight maintenance windows, overtime, or weekends
Preferred Experience:
- Fiber migration, customer cutover, circuit grooming, or network consolidation projects
- Experience working within a major telecommunications carrier network
- EXFO OTDR equipment
- DWDM, SONET, Ethernet, or optical transport networks
- Telecommunications equipment decommissioning or asset recovery
Key Responsibilities:
- Install, route, trace, label, and document fiber optic cabling
- Perform fiber testing using OTDRs, power meters, and fiber scopes
- Interpret test results and troubleshoot fiber connectivity issues
- Support network migrations, circuit moves, and customer cutovers
- Verify circuit connectivity before and after migration activities
- Read and follow fiber routing diagrams and circuit documentation
- Maintain accurate testing records and daily project updates
- Coordinate with project managers, technical leads, and network teams
- Work safely around active telecommunications equipment and circuits
Travel & Physical Requirements:
- Travel throughout the United States for extended project assignments
- Work may include occasional overnight maintenance windows
- Qualifying lodging, meals, transportation, and other travel expenses are provided or reimbursed according to company policy
- Lift and carry equipment or materials weighing up to 50 pounds
- Climb ladders and work within overhead raceways
- Bend, kneel, crouch, and work beneath raised floors
- Stand or walk for extended periods
Broadstaff, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Pay: $28.00 - $32.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- On-the-job training
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Please describe your hands-on fiber optic experience within central offices, data centers, carrier facilities, or similar telecommunications environments. Include the types of fiber work you performed and the testing equipment you used.
- Please provide an example of a fiber issue you diagnosed using an OTDR. What did the trace indicate, and how did you determine the appropriate next steps?
- Are you willing and able to travel nationwide for project assignments that may last 4–6 weeks at a time?
Work Location: On the road
