Installation Technician
$41,600–$52,000 year
On-siteLas Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Job Summary
Install, replace, modify, and maintain specialized public safety equipment including two-way radios, video systems, lighting, sound gear, and Mobile Data Terminals within emergency vehicles. Troubleshoot hardware, software, and peripheral problems using diagnostic analyzers and hand tools while managing inventory and preparing technical records. Perform physical tasks such as climbing, crawling, and lifting up to 75 pounds to complete vehicle partition and wiring installations. Requires a valid driver's license, three years of relevant experience, and successful completion of preemployment drug testing and federal background check.
Required Qualifications
- Three years' experience with equipment and software in area of responsibility
- An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the job's essential duties
- A valid driver's license
- Successful passing results of Preemployment Drug Testing and Federal Background Check
- Knowledge of applicable hardware, software, and peripheral devices
- Knowledge of vehicle installation practices
- Knowledge of diagnostic analyzer tools and equipment
- Knowledge of customer service principles
- Knowledge of recordkeeping principles
- Knowledge of basic inventory principles
- Must have experience with 12V vehicles
- Must have hand tools to include sockets, screw drivers, wrenches, wire strippers
- Skill in troubleshooting and resolving hardware, software, network, and peripheral problems
- Skill in providing customer service
- Skill in utilizing diagnostic analyzers and related equipment and tools
- Skill in preparing records and reports
- Skill in installing and configuring public safety equipment to include lights, wires, radios, computers, vehicle partitions and related peripherals
- Skill in communicating technical information to a non-technical audience
- Skill in monitoring inventory
- Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public, etc sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction
- Physical ability to exert up to 75 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
- Physical ability to balance while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces
- Physical ability to climb ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like
- Physical ability to crawl on hands, knees, hands, and feet
- Physical ability to crouch by bending the body downward and forward
- Physical ability to perceive attributes of objects by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips
- Physical ability to pick, pinching, typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers
- Physical ability to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
- Physical ability to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels
- Physical ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make sound discrimination
- Physical ability to kneel by bending legs at knee
- Physical ability to lift objects and move objects horizontally
- Physical ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes
- Physical ability to pull objects in a sustained motion
- Physical ability to push against something steady
- Physical ability to reach in any direction
- Physical ability to perform substantial movements of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers
- Physical ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely
- Physical ability to stand for sustained periods of time
- Physical ability to stoop by bending body downward and forward
- Physical ability to talk and convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
- Visual ability sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading
- Visual ability sufficient to include color, depth perception, and field vision
- Visual ability sufficient to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures
- Visual ability sufficient to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment
- Visual ability sufficient to perform an activity such as visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines; using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes
- Physical ability to walk and move from one work site to another
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