RCDD / Telecommunications and OSP Fiber Lead

Energy Resilience Partners, LLC; Guaynabo (PR); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Resilience Partners, LLC (ERP) is seeking a Senior Technical Staff Member (Telecommunications) to lead design assurance and QC for the Fort Buchanan microgrid fiber/network. The role manages telecom drawings, interfaces, and on-site coordination.

Hybrid remote design review with on-island installation duties in Puerto Rico are required. The successful candidate will supervise installers, witness OTDR tests, maintain documentation, and ensure compliant handoffs to operations.

Qualifications

• Current RCDD credential with at least 2 years in CQC-related functions.
• 5+ years telecom/OSP fiber design, installation, testing, or supervision.
• Experience on comparable optical-fiber systems and ability to document references.
• Willingness to work on site in Puerto Rico during installation and QC activities.

Responsibilities

• Review/approve telecom drawings, routes, entr facilities, racks, splices, terminations, labeling, grounding, and test plans.
• Coordinate fiber pathways, ductbanks, handholes, penetrations, clearances, and network interfaces.
• Supervise installers, splicers, termination personnel, and verify certifications.
• Witness OTDR, optical-loss, polarity, continuity, labeling, and acceptance testing.
• Maintain redlines, test records, splice docs, port schedules, inventories, and turnover data.
• Perform CQC duties on site and report to the CQC System Manager.

Skills

RCDD credential

Telecom design experience

On-site Puerto Rico work ability

Quality assurance oversight

Tools

OTDR testing equipment

Fiber testing equipment

Job description

FBMG-016 | Fort Buchanan Microgrid | Contingent opportunity

WORK LOCATION: HYBRID - remote design/submittal review; ON ISLAND during OSP installation, termination, cutover, testing, and QC activities

• REQUISITION: FBMG-016
• CSS CAM LCAT: 140 - Senior Technical Staff Member (Telecommunications)
• DUTY LOCATION: Hybrid with field duty at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
• WORK ARRANGEMENT: HYBRID - remote design/submittal review; ON ISLAND during OSP installation, termination, cutover, testing, and QC activities
• REPORTS TO: Electrical/Controls Lead and CQC System Manager for QC functions
• EMPLOYMENT: Full-time, consultant, or committed telecom-subcontractor key person; contingent
• REQUIREMENT BASIS: SOLICITATION-MANDATED RCDD/QC and approved telecom key-personnel requirements

About ERP and the Project

Energy Resilience Partners, LLC (ERP) is a tribally led SBA 8(a) federal contractor advancing energy resilience and mission assurance. ERP is deploying a project team for the Fort Buchanan installation-level microgrid in Puerto Rico. The work includes diesel generation, medium-voltage distribution, microgrid controls, protective relaying, fuel infrastructure, fiber communications, optional BESS, integration of existing renewable generation, and full system commissioning.

Position Summary

Lead design assurance, installation coordination, quality, testing, and turnover of the microgrid's inside-plant and outside-plant fiber/network infrastructure. The role will approve required telecom drawings, coordinate pathways and interfaces, and provide on-site oversight during the work for which the individual is responsible.

What You Will Do

• Review/approve T0/T1/T2/T3/T4 telecom drawings, OSP routes, entrance facilities, racks/cabinets, splices, terminations, labeling, grounding, and test plans.
• Coordinate fiber pathways, ductbanks, handholes, penetrations, clearances, network cabinets, power, environmental needs, and MCS/cyber interfaces.
• Supervise or verify qualified installers, splicers, termination personnel, manufacturer certifications, pulling limits, cutover plans, and field practices.
• Witness and certify OTDR, optical-loss, polarity, continuity, labeling, grounding, and acceptance testing.
• Maintain redlines, test records, splice documentation, port/fiber schedules, inventories, and O&M/turnover data.
• Perform CQC discipline duties on site when assigned and report to the CQC System Manager for those duties.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) credential and at least 2 years of related experience for the CQC function.
• At least 5 years of telecom/OSP fiber design, installation, testing, or supervision experience.
• Recent successful work on comparable optical-fiber systems; ability to document project references and key-person role.
• Ability to work on site in Puerto Rico during installation, splicing, cutover, testing, and assigned quality-control activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• BICSI Technician/Installer credentials, manufacturer certifications, TIA-568/569/606/607/758 expertise, and DoD/USACE project experience.
• Industrial Ethernet, control-system networks, cybersecurity, and Spanish proficiency.

Field, Travel and Employment Conditions

• This is a contingent opportunity dependent on contract award/NTP, project funding, final staffing authorization, Government acceptance when required, and successful installation-access processing.
• When on site, work may involve tropical heat and humidity, rain, uneven terrain, stairs/ladders, construction noise, required PPE, and extended, weekend, outage, emergency, or alternate-shift hours.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States, follow drug-free workplace and conduct requirements, and protect FCI/CUI using only authorized systems and procedures.
• ERP encourages applications from qualified Native American, Puerto Rican, veteran, military-spouse, disabled, and local candidates. ERP provides equal employment opportunity consistent with applicable law.