Telecommunications Specialist 2

About the role

Join the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) as a Telecommunications Specialist 2 and help support critical communication avenues across various facilities, centers, and storefronts throughout the Commonwealth. In this role, you will guide a skilled team, troubleshoot complex systems, and contribute to major modernization efforts that strengthen essential operations and future upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Project Oversight: Coordinate and supervise the design, installation, renovation, and repair work for telecommunications projects
• Infrastructure Design: Create plans for integrating buildings, developing distribution nodes, and upgrading major telecommunications hubs
• Site Assessment: Evaluate copper and fiber systems, components, and cabling to determine how new systems fit into statewide infrastructure
• Technical Troubleshooting: Resolve issues involving aerial and underground cabling, splice cases, demarcation rooms, and central office systems
• Compliance Review: Inspect work to ensure adherence to project requirements, codes, standards, and safety practices
• Team Supervision: Guide and direct subordinate staff performing telecommunications tasks in various facilities

Requirements

Minimum Experience and Training:

• One year as a Telecommunications Specialist 1 (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration); or
• Four years of technical experience providing microcomputer support services that included information technology or telecommunications hardware and software installation, operation, and maintenance within a network environment; or
• Four years of voice or data telecommunications experience that included two years of system design or configuration and two years of general telecommunications experience involving:
  • Technical management of systems for commercial or governmental applications; or
  • Technical work in the acquisition, installation, repair, or maintenance of commercial or governmental systems
• Two years of technical experience providing microcomputer support services that included information technology or telecommunications hardware and software installation, operation, and maintenance within a network environment and an associate's degree in Microcomputer or Telecommunications Technology or other closely related field

Post high school training in telecommunications technology; data communications; or electronics with emphasis in telecommunications technology may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the two years of general telecommunications experience, but may not be substituted for the required experience in system design or configuration.

Additional Required Experience:

• Four years or more of full-time experience in:
  • The installation, splicing, testing, and repairing of aerial cable (copper and fiber)
  • The installation, splicing, locating, and marking of underground cable (copper and fiber)
  • Manhole inspections (e.g., pre-entry safety check, conduit integrity check, water and drain ingress check, cable racking and support assessment, etc.)
  • Utility pole inspections (e.g., hardware assessment, probe testing, sound testing, bore testing, etc.)

Other Requirements:

• You must meet the PA residency requirement
• A conditional offer of employment will require submission of criminal history reports

Schedule

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 7:45 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 45-minute lunch
• No telework option available for this position