Certificate III in Telecommunications Technology

Use hand and power tools

Use electrical skills when working with telecommunications networks

Determine and apply technologies within a telecommunications system

Locate, identify and rectify telecommunications network faults

Follow work health and safety and environmental policy and procedures

Provide customer service to telecommunications customers

Investigate business opportunities

Address compliance requirements for new business ventures

Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices

Identify and produce estimated costs for building and construction projects

Remove non-friable asbestos

Licence to perform dogging

Licence to perform rigging basic level

Prepare to work safely in the construction industry

Install optical fibre splitters in fibre distribution hubs

Install lead-in module and cable for fibre to the premises

Use radio frequency measuring instruments

Use optical measuring instruments

Work safely on live optical fibre installations

Perform tests on optical communication system and components

Install, maintain and modify customer premises communications cabling: ACMA Lift Rule

Install, maintain and modify customer premises communications cabling: ACMA Restricted Rule

Install, maintain and modify customer premises communications cabling: ACMA Open Rule

Install, terminate and certify structured cabling installation

Install and terminate coaxial cable

Hand over cable systems and equipment

Locate and identify cable system faults

Install systems and equipment on customer premises

Modify and cutover cable

Install network cable equipment

Install ribbon fibre cable in the FTTX distribution network

Install, test and terminate optical fibre cable on customer premises

Test cables and systems on customer premises

Cut over new systems and equipment on customer premises

Maintain cable network

Install underground cable for communications applications

Splice and terminate optical fibre cable for telecommunications projects

Conduct basic identification and fault-finding within cabling networks and customer equipment

Install aerial cable for communications applications

Install underground enclosures and conduit

Construct aerial cable supports

Install digital reception equipment

Locate and rectify digital reception equipment faults

Install a complex digital reception system

Develop integrated digital reception systems

Design communications wiring systems for customer premises

Train customers in new technology

Connect internal hardware components

Implement system software changes

Implement new technology

Maintain standard operating environments

Install and test network protocols

Create scripts for networking

Apply introductory programming techniques

Install a radio communications antenna and feedline

Construct and test a radio communications device

Operate and maintain radio communications technical instruments and field equipment

Maintain hybrid fibre coaxial broadband cable network

Conduct radio frequency measurements

Provide ICT advice to clients

Run standard diagnostic tests

Maintain computer hardware

Provide basic system administration

Use safe rigging practices to climb and perform rescues on telecommunications network structures

Install and test internet protocol devices in convergence networks

Provide infrastructure for telecommunications network equipment

Install telecommunications network equipment

Work on and resolve recurrent network faults

Conduct basic tests and analyses of telecommunications copper cabling

Inspect, clean and handle optical fibre cable and connectors

Commission an electronic unit

Maintain an electronic system

Provide infrastructure for telecommunications network customer equipment

Estimate and quote for customer telecommunications equipment installation

Install and configure internet protocol TV in a home network

Identify requirements for customer telecommunications equipment

Install, configure and test internet protocol networks

Provide telecommunications services safely on roofs

Work safely near power infrastructure at a telecommunications workplace

Work effectively in the digital and telecommunications industry

Organise resources

Organise material supply

Schedule resources

Manage spare parts

Supervise worksite activities

Resolve technical enquiries using multiple information systems

Collect and analyse technical information

Identify, locate and protect underground services

Enter and work in confined spaces

Work safely at heights

Control traffic with stop-slow bat

Implement traffic management plans

Work safely in the vicinity of live electrical apparatus as a non-electrical worker