Network Cable Installer
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Install, terminate, test and certify network cable infrastructure components.
Overview
In your role as a Network Cable Installer, you’ll help provide the communications backbone for the digital infrastructure ecosystem.
You will install all types of digital devices including computers, servers, smart devices, security equipment, wireless access points, access control, building management systems and lighting systems to communicate between each other, internally, nationally and globally.
Installers work in data sensitive environments and contribute to the organisation’s cyber security strategy by ensuring the physical security, as well as complying with basic cyber security principles for the maintenance of confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.
You could be called upon to work in the Inside Plant (ISP) environment which is dedicated to the installation of cable within buildings and structures, and the Outside Plant (OSP) environment, which is dedicated to the installation of cable externally between buildings, cities and countries.
The size of the task or project that a network cable installer could be involved in, ranges from a single outlet point in a customer’s premises, to thousands of outlets in a new office blocks, or from a single fibre cable termination in a building to the installation of hundreds of fibres over many kilometres in local, national and international communities.
The role of the installer is very physical and often involves lifting and moving heavy equipment.
Top 5 Tasks
- Install, terminate, test and certify network cable infrastructure components
- Make sure it’s all in accordance with national and international industry standards
- Interpret detailed project plans
- Carry out maintenance
- Work in potentially hazardous areas.
Salary
The average salary for a Cable Installer is £28,735 per year in England.
Am I Suited?
- Flexible
- Logical thinker
- Independent
- Physical
- Efficient
There are more men than women working in the IT industry, however various groups exist to support women in IT and technology and encourage them into the industry such as BCSWomen and Women in Technology.
Qualifications
There’s no set requirements to gain work in this role and typically depends on your employer.
However, gaining GCSEs at 9 to 4 level may work in your favour and then go through either a college course or an apprenticeship.
Progression
