Outside Plant Fiber Engineer

Outside Plant Fiber Engineer

At Brightspeed, we are reimagining how people live, work, play and connect by providing fast, reliable internet connections and an awesome customer experience in twenty states throughout the Midwest and South. Backed by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, our vision is to accelerate the upgrade of copper to fiber optic technologies, bringing faster and more reliable internet service to many rural markets traditionally underserved by broadband providers, while delivering best-in-class customer experience. Be a part of the team that will make this vision a reality…designing and building a world class fiber network and creating a customer experience second to none.

Brightspeed is searching for an Outside Plant Fiber Engineer to join our team! As an Outside Plant Fiber Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and preparation of engineering work orders for land developments, new buildings, single line requests, rehab, DSL, FTTN, FTTH, FTTT, road relocations, augmentation projects and special circuit requests. You will be utilizing the following tools; NDS, AutoCAD, Fireworks/Bid master, JDS, FORTE, WFMT, ARMOR, TIRKS, LFACS, and the full suite of Microsoft Office. As an OSP field engineer you will be assigned a geographic area and will be responsible for all OSP job requests. In this role you will design and acquire civil permits, maintain positive interaction with internal and external customers, maintain open conversation with planning and all company departments providing a high quality of service to Brightspeed customers.

As an Outside Plant Fiber Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Developing/defining plans for the implementation of new plant construction or modifications to existing facilities
• Preparing plans and specifications, to include gathering field data
• Assurance that the most feasible, practical, and economical means to complete the work are utilized
• Providing cost data to support capital planning and budgeting
• Monitoring and controlling project expenditure
• Overseeing the installation/construction and testing of plant facilities
• Analyzing local and wide area network systems and/or customer network environment, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting operating systems and protocol suites, and configuring communication media with concentrators, bridges, and other devices
• Resolving interoperability problems to obtain operations across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like
• Configuring systems to user environments
• Conducting on-site field survey reviews with customers and vendor/contractors
• Supporting acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services as needed

What it takes to catch our eye:

• Associate degree or equivalent education and relevant experience
• 3 to 5 years related experience in telecommunications, engineering, or network planning or equivalent
• Knowledgeable and skilled in planning/engineering and reading construction drawings/prints
• Knowledgeable and able to work in appropriate systems and Microsoft Office
• Ability to work with Planning, Operations, and all internal and external customers, maintain budget, and assist with forecasting budgets
• Ability to maintain positive interaction between all governing authorities
• Understanding of fiber transport and backhaul technologies and protocols
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage small to medium sized projects with cross functional and vendor interaction