What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Technician position at Ripple Fiber?
Maintenance Technician | Ripple Fiber
We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Technician in the Worcester, MA area. The ideal candidate will be responsible for installation, testing, troubleshooting and maintaining Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) residential network. This role requires a detail-oriented professional with a strong technical background and hands-on experience in fiber optics, customer support, and residential network infrastructure.
About Ripple Fiber
Our mission is to provide access to the best internet for life, while bridging the digital divide, using advanced technology aimed at improving people’s lives. Our technology has proven successful in other countries around the world and has provided ease of access to more opportunities from an education, entertainment, and employment perspective.
We have achieved the above by providing faster, more stable fiber internet connection, providing each user with their own bandwidth without needing to share with anyone else. Simply put, the capacity of fiber is a lot faster than copper and is the internet of the future.
Our aim is to provide this internet access to over 3 million homes over the next 7 years, across various states.
About our culture
We are a dynamic fast-growing, fast-paced, innovative company filled with ambitious, self-starters with entrepreneurial mindsets. We are people centric and place emphasis on employee experience, career growth and development.
Responsibilities:
- Install, test, troubleshoot and maintain single-mode optical fiber (SMF) in Ripple Fiber’s Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) residential network. This network incorporates innovative technologies such as a 10-gigabit symmetrical passive optical network (XGS-PON), and optical network terminals (ONTs) with Wi-Fi 6 technology.
- Install, splice, terminate, troubleshoot, and repair optical fiber systems under limited supervision.
- Safely operate and work from a company-provide bucket truck
- Conduct testing using optical time-domain reflectometers (OTDRs), power meters/laser sources and scopes
- Prep, tray, and splice cable ranging from single to mass optical fiber counts. Perform ring cuts
- Install demarcation enclosures, switches, and other telecom equipment
- Represent Ripple Fiber to vendors, contractors, clients, and the community
Qualifications:
- Possess and maintain a motor vehicle driving record that complies with public, safety, legal, insurance, and company guidelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- History of coordinating with vendors, contractors, clients, and the community
- Compliance with company controls and processes
- Record of integrity, ethical, professional, and personal standards supported by references
- Two years optical fiber installation experience, which may include:
- Pulling and terminating fiber cabling
- Experience with XGS-PON and ONT with Wi-Fi 6 technology
- Fusion splicing and terminations
- Knowledge of OTDR, light source, and power meters
- Familiarity with splice drawings and OTDR test sheets and reading traces
- Ability to read splicing matrix and design drawings
- Cable prep, single and mass fusion splicing, and termination abilities
- Optical fiber test and troubleshooting abilities
- Two years residential utility installation experience
- Associate degree or comparable training in a related field
- Certification from the Fiber Optic Association (FOA) or similar trade group
- Familiarity with Google Earth and use of KML/KMZ files
We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package (including 401k packages), various perks and opportunities for growth and development. If you believe you are a fit from a role and culture perspective, please submit your resume, along with a cover letter for consideration.
Ripple Fiber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Ripple Fiber is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.
