Senior Planning Engineer - Remote AI‑Driven Infra

Lumen; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 85,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is hiring a Senior Planning Engineer for a work-from-home position in the United States. You will apply approved technologies and architectures to support growth, ensure best-in-class customer experience, and collaborate across business units.

You will lead market strategies, manage capacity planning, and coordinate with Transport, Field Operations, and other functions. Strong analytical, leadership, and geospatial design skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years consulting level experience; Bachelor's Degree.

Responsibilities

• Develops/defines plans for the implementation of new OSP/ISP plant construction or modifications to existing facilities including risers and inter-building cabling.
• Oversees network capacity trends to understand current network capacity concerns, solutions, costs, and recommendations; communicates concerns to leadership.
• Defines and implements a market level strategy that considers shorter term capacity needs and long term product and technology transformation.
• Supports cross-functional organizations in transport, Core Wave, Field Operations & Implementation, Custom Networks, A&E, etc.
• Prepares plans and specifications with field data; provides cost data to support budgeting.
• Monitors and controls project expenditures.
• Oversees installation/construction and testing of plant facilities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Cost analysis

Geospatial tools

ArcGIS

AutoCAD

Google Earth

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

ArcGIS/PRO

AutoCAD

Google Earth

Microsoft Excel

Access

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

Lumen is hiring a Senior Planning Engineer for a work-from-home position in the United States. You will apply approved technologies and architectures to support growth, ensure best-in-class customer experience, and collaborate across business units.

You will lead market strategies, manage capacity planning, and coordinate with Transport, Field Operations, and other functions. Strong analytical, leadership, and geospatial design skills are essential.