Certificate III in National Broadband Network Construction
This qualification has been designed as a pathway for specialised work on the National Broadband Network (NBN).
This qualification provides students with skills and knowledge to enhance employment prospects in apprenticeships and traineeships in a range of specialised NBN industry occupations specifically for the national rollout of the high speed broadband infrastructure.
In conjunction with safe working practices, one of two specialist streams is to be undertaken as described:
Telecommunications linesworker/Installer
This stream reflects the role of operators in performing equipment and system installation work on customer network to enable efficient access and interconnection to the NBN services. This includes diagnosing and rectifying complex cable system faults to maximise benefits of the high speed broadband connection.
Telecommunications Fibre Splicer
This stream reflects the role of operators in applying optical fibre handling skills to splicing, testing and fault finding on live fibre cable in the fibre distribution network for NBN.
Job roles
Job roles and titles are dependent on the stream completed, possible job titles relevant to a pathway for this qualification include:
Telecommunications installer
Broadband network linesworker
Broadband network fibre splicer
Telecommunications customer network cable installer.