Traveling Fiber Specialist
About the role
LINX is hiring Fiber Specialists for its travel-based team that deploys to enterprise, hyperscale, and hyperscale data center builds across the country. If you can independently run ribbon and loose tube fusion splicing, validate your own work against customer acceptance criteria on OTDR and OLTS, and you're looking for consistent, high-volume fiber work rather than one job site indefinitely, this role is built for you. You'll be on the leading edge of the infrastructure buildout driving AI and GPU cluster deployment, working alongside some of the most technically demanding fiber environments in the industry today.
The Fiber Team is a parallel specialist track within LINX’s low voltage field structure. It sits alongside, not on top of, the standard Technician through Superintendent ladder. Every role on the Fiber Team specializes in fiber splicing. Fiber Technician → Fiber Specialist → Sr. Fiber Specialist.
Founded in 2003 by working industry practitioners, LINX has grown into a national commercial low voltage contractor with completed projects in all 50 states. LINX's dedicated fiber deployment team is built to meet the accelerating demand for high-density fiber infrastructure across enterprise and hyperscale data center construction. As data center buildouts continue to scale nationally, the Fiber Specialist track is becoming one of the fastest-growing technical career paths inside LINX, with a direct line into technical leadership and training roles within the company.
Responsibilities
- Independently perform ribbon and loose tube fusion splicing, including butt splices, tie-ins, and restoration work
- Build and dress splice enclosures and Fiber Distribution Frames (FDFs)
- Install Line Interface Units (LIUs) and MPO panels
- Perform mid-span entries and ring cuts
- Maintain proper fiber routing, slack storage, and cable management to spec
- Perform OTDR, OLTS, optical power meter, and Visual Fault Locator (VFL) testing
- Configure testing parameters and validate results against customer acceptance criteria
- Diagnose and resolve splice loss issues, connector contamination, and fiber routing problems at the root cause level
- Produce accurate splice records and complete fiber test packages
- Update red lines and as-built documentation
- Complete turnover documentation and perform quality inspections on your own completed work
- Read and interpret fiber drawings, rack elevations, and related construction documentation
- Survey work areas and develop material lists to support project planning
- Execute Enterprise, hyperscale, and AI cluster / GPU infrastructure fiber deployments
- Coordinate directly with customers and other trades on-site
- Lead small crews of 5+ Fiber Technicians when assigned
- Provide technical guidance to Fiber Technicians and mentor developing splicers in the field
Requirements
- 1-2+ years