Communication Technician

Your career as a Communications Technician will enable you to utilize your interest in technology. A Communication Technician oversees the installation, programming, configuration, synchronization, maintenance, and repair of complex communications equipment and devices.

A Communication Technician career will enable you to performs preventive and corrective maintenance on television, radio, cell phone, satellite and other communications equipment. A Communication Technician can also perform installation techniques like assembling, wiring, and soldering mechanical and electrical equipment. As a Communication Technician you’ll also have the responsibility of operating complex diagnostic equipment, like altimeters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, distortion analyzers, network analyzers and power meters.

To get into you Communication Technician career you must complete a certificate, associates degree or bachelor’s degree program at a vocational school, technical institute, career college, or traditional college or university. You can get your Communication Technician degree in 18 – 48 months. Training to become a Communication Technician will include: electronic theory and principles, installation tools and methods, two-way radio maintenance, principles of radio and electronic communications equipment, electronic equipment construction, and repair.

You can use your Communication Technician skills working in broadcasting electronics, cable television, satellite communications, two-way radio, cellular communications, fiber optics, or wireless transmissions. Your Communication Technician can include audiovisual technology, broadcast engineering or cable TV maintenance. You can also work for the Federal or State Government in military electronics, electronic research and development, fiber optic technician, electronics technician, engineering aide or engineering specialist. Some technicians work for satellite or cell phone companies as an installation technician, instrument manufacturing technician, consumer electronics technician, field service engineer, and electronic systems salesperson or satellite service technician.

Start your path to a great career in Communication Technician today.