Planning Engineer

Job Description
Brightspeed is looking for a Planning Engineer to join our team! As a Senior Planning Engineer your responsibilities will include managing network elements for voice and data networks and monitoring and evaluating capacity utilization for these networks. You will also submit capacity triggers as necessary and forecast and trend bandwidth growth to produce capacity triggers for bandwidth relief. In addition, you will develop plans to augment capacity relief as needed.
As a Planning Engineer Your Responsibilities will include:
Triggering projects utilizing the most feasible, practical and economical means
Performing engineering work and applied research, development and design of new projects, to include design, fabrication, modification and evaluation of equipment and devices
Skills in planning and/or engineering
Analyzing complex 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
Handling moderately complex engineering assignments
Resolving difficult interoperability problems to obtain operation across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like
Configuring systems to user environments
Support of acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services
May act as a technical project leader or provide work leadership for lower level employees.
Position requires limited direction and guidance
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