Fiber Splicer (Fiber Optics)

Location: CA - Los Angeles; field work throughout the Greater Los Angeles area. The role includes nights, weekends, holidays, on-call emergency restoration, and travel across Southern California.

Estimated compensation: $25.76–$39.61 per hour.

Company

hirify.global provides mission-critical bandwidth and communications infrastructure, including dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access.

What you will do

• Install, splice, restore, test, and maintain aerial, underground, and indoor fiber optic networks.
• Perform fusion splicing on dark fiber and active services using loose tube, ribbon, micro cable, Rapid cable, and other cable types.
• Install, turn up, provision, test, and troubleshoot SONET, WDM, Ethernet, and optical transport equipment.
• Conduct OTDR, Optical Power Meter, BER, PMD, Optical Spectrum Analyzer, and other fiber acceptance testing.
• Respond to outages and emergency restoration events while coordinating with the Network Operations Center on provisioning, alarms, testing, and service acceptance.
• Complete splice records, test documentation, electronic work reports, site surveys, asset labeling, and infrastructure verification.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Two to five years of telecommunications experience in fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, or outside plant construction.
• Valid California Driver's License or ability to obtain one upon hire.
• Experience reading engineering prints and splice documentation, with the ability to work independently.
• Currently authorized to work full-time in the United States; employer-sponsored work authorization, including OPT, TN, H1B, or other work visas, is not available.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, work outdoors, enter confined spaces, climb ladders and aerial lifts, and lift up to 75 pounds.

Nice to have

• Experience with MPLS, IP transport networks, fiber distribution panels, AC/DC power systems, rectifiers, Network Management Systems, bucket trucks, aerial lifts, utility locating, and California traffic control standards.
• Experience working in dense Los Angeles construction environments, data centers, carrier hotels, underground conduit systems, and aerial distribution networks.
• Military telecommunications experience.
• Associate degree or equivalent technical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety-focused work environment with emphasis on quality workmanship and California work zone compliance.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement 401(k) savings plan.
• Paid time off, including paid parental leave.
• Customer-facing work with municipalities, utilities, contractors, permitting agencies, and network operations teams.