Overview

SMS has an immediate opening with our team supporting the 668 Alteration and Installation Squadron (ALIS) at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland. Our team provides installation and support for the Air Force and its customers for voice and communications equipment at installations worldwide.

As a dynamic systems integrator, SMS offers proven solutions in engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. With expertise in modernizing and optimizing legacy infrastructure and systems, ensuring operational efficiency, and designing, implementing, and managing secure environments, SMS supports business and mission goals with proficiency, quality, and integrity.

SMS has been serving the advanced information technology needs of the federal government since 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 40 years. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit www.sms.com.

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Responsibilities

• Responsible for assisting in the placement of copper and fiber optic cables in a variety of environments, indoor and outdoor. Specific responsibilities include testing and placement of copper fiber optic cables. Ensure all work performed follows standards and specifications.
• Specific responsibilities include opening, bonding, splicing, testing and placement of fiber optic cables. Ensure all work performed follows standards and specifications.
• Install, repair, and test copper and fiber cable.
• Scope, clean and document Fiber Readings. 
• Demonstrate knowledge in all types of cable and installation and maintenance activity, cable and safety test equipment and practices, and use of common cable construction equipment.
• Locate and repair cable faults to maintain existing cable network without causing failure interruptions.
• Validate and test end-to-end service provisioning for cable networks.
• Confirm accurate cable terminations on cross connect, patch panels, hubs and routers.
• Run, terminate and test telecommunication inside wiring, including cat5/6 cabling.
• Place infrastructure equipment, including racks, frames and associated cable run and wire management devices. May also be responsible for placing end-user devices, such as PC workstations and telephones. 
• Manage pole climbing, working at heights, handling ladders, and pushing, pulling and bending equipment. Work outdoors and in inclement weather conditions. Work on-call 24 hours a day for emergency repairs.
• Maintain safe and secure work environment by complying with Government standards and legal regulations.
• Review site surveys, condition discrepancy reports, design drawings, technical manuals for cable installation feasibility.
• Understand construction prints and splice schematics.
• Maintain project tracing information such as production sheets, time sheets, and customer required paperwork.
• Take the users requirement and design/engineer a technical solution and parts list to include equipment, cable types and color, connectors, and faceplates. In the Technical solution, provide a man-hour estimate for the install and manpower requirement to accomplish the work.
• Update drawings and connectivity cut-sheets.
• Update project status and job log.
• Monitor supply process to ensure parts get ordered, shipped, inventoried and customer gets invoiced.

Qualifications

• High School (GED), plus a minimum of two years of copper and fiber optic cabling and network construction and maintenance experience.
• Demonstrate ability to Problem Solve and Troubleshoot.
• Knowledge of the different types of fiber applications (SC/LC/ST/FC).
• Basic knowledge of the use and types of fiber attenuators.
• Candidate should have experience working with fiber and copper cabling.
• Must be able to work on a ladder, crawl under floors, above ceilings, and lift up to 50 lbs.
• Understanding usage of both common hand tools and powered tools.
• Familiar with Fluke test equipment to test cables after installation. 
• Demonstrate the proper use of splice trays.
• Posses knowledge in first aid and CPR.
• Work includes travel, which can go up to 3 months or longer with no travel home during the work effort. (Normally 3-4 weeks). May require travel on weekends.
• Requires an active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

SMS is a veteran-owned network integrator established in 1976. With an employee retention rate averaging over 3 years, our ability to hire quality people and retain them in a rapidly evolving IT market proves why we are a world-class information technology company. At SMS, we place a high value on quality of service, customer satisfaction, and best-of-breed policies and practices. As a result, SMS is proud to be ISO 9001:2008 Registered and a CMMI Level 3 certified company, ensuring that we continue to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers, partners and employees.