Network Engineer- Outside Plant

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 toBrightspeed 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