Radio operator

A radio operator is somebody who operates a radio. I don't mean like a Boom Box or an MP3 player, or any other form of outdated technology, but rather someone who monitors radio signals and broadcasts for a military unit or a corporate enterprise. In the 1985 zombie horror film Day of the Dead, the character of William "Bill" McDermott was a radio operator. On the Syfy series Z Nation, the scrawny pencilneck known as "Citizen Z" was also a radio operator.