Network Engineer

Job Description

Brightspeed is searching for a Network Engineer- Outside Plant to join our team. As a Network Engineer-Outside Plant, 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 outside plant field engineer you will be assigned a geographic area and will be responsible for all Outside Plant (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 Network Engineer- Outside Plant, 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

Assuring 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

Supporting acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services as needed