Osp Engineer

Jobtome; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Mountain Ltd. in Boise, ID seeks an OSP Design Engineer to perform detailed outside plant engineering, estimating, analyzing, and designing copper and fiber facilities. You will work on poles, conduits, buried systems, and feature budget tracking against costs.

Interact with internal teams to deliver compliant designs for Fiber to the Home, DSL, Ethernet, and related services. The role requires field data collection, permit preparation, and collaboration with retail, wholesale, and municipal

Qualifications

• Ability to identify existing voice/data plant on site plans and in the field.
• Experience managing other OSP engineers and reviewing/correcting projects.
• Expert knowledge of right of ways and easements.
• Knowledge of COE/OSP principles, NESC, and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed OSP design for copper and fiber including poles, conduits, and buried facilities.
• Prepare and track budgets and cost estimates for projects.
• Develop field-ready design plans and permit packages for submittal.
• Coordinate with retail, wholesale, and municipalities for intra- and inter-state designs.
• Ensure quality control and maintain project records and documentation.

Skills

OSP design

Project management

Team leadership

Coordination

ROW coordination

Tools

CAD software

GIS software

Laptop

Job description

Mountain Ltd. has an opening for an OSP Design Engineer working in the Boise, ID area. Overview: The OSP Design Engineer performs detailed outside plant facility engineering tasks that includes estimating, analyzing, designing, planning, budget tracking estimates against actual costs for copper and fiber cables, poles, direct buried and conduit systems. This position is responsible for preparing and interpreting engineering plans, drawings and reports;
prepare loop loss design for load and repeater electronics, plan and design field mounted switch serving areas, perform pole, conduit and buried facility design measurements to support company and industry OSP design standards and economic feasibility studies. This position is responsible for specific job budget development and tracking. This position is responsible for periodic job inspections and quality control. Performs duties such as collecting field data, preparing/organizing permit packages for submittal to the appropriate entities, maintaining complex files, keeping records, searching, and investigating information contained in files, processing departmental documents requiring specific knowledge of functional operations, posting records including accounting and continuing property records, typing correspondence and reports from rough drafts, and assisting engineers as requested. Responsible to understand and design network elements providing Fiber to the Home, Copper DSL, Metro-E Ethernet, TDM, Sonet, and fiber solutions. As such they will be required to interface with multiple groups and collaborate on intra-and inter-state designs for implementation. They will be expected to write projects implementing a solution and have a working knowledge of the equipment used to provide answers to questions regarding installation and function of the equipment when being placed in-service. They will also be required to understand circuit design, functionality of these devices and will be expected to understand and work in the system used for this purpose. This position will work with local retail, wholesale, and municipalities regularly.

Qualifications

• Ability to identify existing voice/data plant, electric, and other utilities on the site plans as well as in the field
• Ability to indicate existing voice/data plant location and relocate facilities and knowledge of obtaining right of ways and easements where required
• Must have experience managing other OSP Engineers and reviewing/correcting their projects
• Expert in obtaining right of ways and easements where required
• Must be capable of engineering routine and specific COE/OSP work orders, including more complex projects including road moves
• Must have expert knowledge of COE/OSP principles, work order procedures, voice/data industry standards, PC applications, and COE/OSP record and/or computer aided drafting systems
• Must have own tools such as a measuring wheel, height stock, pull finder, laptop, etc.
• Experience with the local networks
• Ability to perform quality control on engineering work for other members of the team
• Experience/Understanding with the National Electric Safety Code (NESC) for engineering requirements.

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