A professional who directs and coordinates, through shift supervisory personnel, operation and maintenance activities of submarine-cable head, microwave-satellite, or coastal radio-telephone station of communications company. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews station logs and confers with supervisory personnel to ascertain apparatus or equipment malfunctions and remedial procedures taken.
• Plans station activities, prepares work schedules, and assigns technical personnel to operating or maintenance duties.
• Authorizes requisitions for replacement parts, materials, and supplies.
• Prepares reports and records on station activities.
• May personally supervise workers in stations where shift supervisory personnel are not utilized.
• May be designated according to type of communications station managed.