Cell Site Engineer

Verizon; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental coverage

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Personal days

Tuition assistance

Vacation time

Job summary

Verizon is hiring a Network Operations Engineer to support a critical 24x7 Operations environment in North Dakota. You will troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain network systems, driving issues to resolution while following established processes.

Expect to handle outages, service issues, and performance improvements with escalation to specialized teams as needed. The role requires 3+ years of relevant experience, an associate degree or equivalent, and willingness to travel up to 25% with rotating

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to quickly identify and solve problems.
• Ability to follow established processes to complete tasks.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced, evolving network environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of network systems and applications.
• Evaluate coverage, propose improvements, and help implement changes.
• Triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.
• Generate and track problem tickets across systems; escalate as needed.
• Support rotating shifts and on-call requirements including weekends.

Skills

Problem solving

Troubleshooting

Process adherence

Reliability

Education

Associate’s degree or 2+ years experience

Technical degree in Electronics/Telecommunications/CS/Engineering/Business

Job description

Apply prior to the end date: November 9, 2026

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

Join Verizon as we continue to expand our industry-leading network to improve the ways people, businesses, and things connect. As a Network Operations Engineer, you will provide technical expertise on a critical role involving network transformation, network outages, service issues, network optimization, and maintenance. You will be responsible for providing support to keep things running smoothly and change the way that our customers live, work, and play. We are a 24x7 highly visible Operations environment that performs troubleshooting, configuration changes, drive issues to resolution, and related functions.

• Performing optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of network systems and applications to identify overall system availability and performance.
• Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations.
• Performing triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.
• Generating, driving, and updating problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continuously improving business practices.
• Escalating issues to the appropriate internal/external engineer teams for resolution.

Physical requirements of the job may include, but are not limited to: climbing stairs and ladders, working from elevated areas, lifting and carrying objects weighing up to approximately 65 pounds, pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting/bending, crawling, squatting, or kneeling in small spaces.

This position covers the Grand Forks, North Dakota area.

What we’re looking for...

Being the first one to encounter and solve a problem is enjoyable to you. You're great at following an established process or procedure to complete tasks. Experience navigating and working well at all levels in a fast-paced, ever-changing network environment. You are dependable and enjoy supporting the rotational needs of a technical environment.

You’ll need to have:

• Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
• Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
• Ability to perform physical requirements of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Valid driver's license.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time
• Willingness to work rotating shifts and on-call schedules, including weekends and holidays.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and technologies like Telephony Switching, Data Communications and Network Routers.
• Computer support experience, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.
• Vendor management experience.

Where you’ll be working

In this worksite-based role, you'll work onsite at a defined location(s).

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

• From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
• We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package.
• Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc.
• Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.
• For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

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