Cable and Plant Technician

About the Role
The Cable and Plant Technician will support the USMTM CITS contract in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This role involves the installation, maintenance, testing, documentation, inspection, and restoration of structured cabling, fiber optic, copper telecommunications, and related passive communications infrastructure that supports secure data, voice, and video services.

Job Responsibilities

• Install, terminate, test, certify, maintain, and troubleshoot copper and fiber optic telecommunications cabling.
• Install and maintain racks, patch panels, fiber distribution panels, cable managers, ladder racks, grounding, outlets, and related infrastructure.
• Perform fiber fusion and mechanical splicing, connector termination, cleaning, inspection, testing, and fault isolation.
• Use cable analyzers, OTDRs, optical power meters, multimeters, splicing equipment, and other industry-standard test tools.
• Maintain Red and Black signal-distribution systems and ensure installations meet Government requirements, BICSI practices, labeling standards, and approved specifications.
• Inspect infrastructure, correct discrepancies when practical, initiate work orders, and maintain inspection and continuity records.
• Troubleshoot physical-layer issues affecting network, voice, VTC, and mission communications services.
• Coordinate outside-plant work, local subcontractors, facility expansion, office reconfiguration, construction activities, and installation schedules.
• Create and update AutoCAD drawings, field markups, as-built records, rack elevations, cable schedules, circuit inventories, pathways, and telecommunications-room documentation.
• Coordinate with Network, Voice, VTC, Systems, Cybersecurity, facility personnel, and Government representatives during installations and restorations.
• Support office moves, network extensions, technology refresh, infrastructure modernization, surveys, inspections, audits, and technical assessments.
• Maintain accountability for tools, test equipment, materials, Government-furnished equipment, and consumable supplies.
• Comply with safety, host-nation, access-control, environmental, Red/Black separation, and secure-facility requirements.
• Support preventive maintenance, trouble calls, emergency restoration, and after-hours or on-call response.

Minimum Qualifications

• Active, in-scope US Government issued Secret clearance.
• Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements: US Citizenship is required.
• Five (5) or more years of structured cabling, telecommunications infrastructure, or cable-plant experience.
• Hands-on experience installing, terminating, testing, and troubleshooting copper and fiber optic cabling.
• Experience using cable-certification and fiber-test equipment and reading or updating telecommunications drawings.
• Working knowledge of structured cabling standards, spaces, racks, pathways, grounding, labeling, and quality control.
• Ability to work independently and coordinate with technical teams, facility personnel, and subcontractors.
• Strong documentation, safety, communication, and quality-control skills.
• Ability to relocate to Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Desired Qualifications

• BICSI Installer 2 Copper, Installer 2 Optical Fiber, Technician, or RCDD certification.
• Experience with AutoCAD, as-built drawings, secure facilities, Red/Black separation, and outside-plant coordination.
• Experience supporting DoD, Army, CENTCOM, USARCENT, or other federal telecommunications infrastructure.
• OSHA 30 or comparable construction-safety training.
• Prior overseas, contingency, military communications, or construction-support experience.

Education

• Associate's degree in Telecommunications, Electronics, Information Technology, Construction Technology, or a related field; equivalent military training and experience may substitute.