Sr. OSP Engineer

Role Purpose

The Senior Outside Plant Engineer will work directly with Sales, Marketing, Customer Care, Project Services and other commercial functions within the organization to support internal and external customers on projects of significant scope and scale with fiber optic system design.  The primary role of the position is to support outside plant fiber optic network design. The candidate will work with engineering resources both internal and external to develop best practices and design standards to integrate with customer systems and design processes. Works with both internal and external stakeholders to gain consensus on design standards and will be responsible for documenting them into formal processes and procedures. Encompasses the use of integrated systems for computer-aided design used for the systematic representation and dimensional specification of mechanical and architectural structures

Key Responsibilities

• Work with internal system engineers and outsource engineering vendors on complex outside plant design scenarios and formulate best plans of action for service
• Review complex CAD designs utilizing numerous layers and blocks and incorporate custom layouts as needed or required by the customer
• Work with Systems engineers in team environment to complete designs of varying detail level for customers
• Research permitting requirements in applicable regions in-order to set design standards for projects in multiple regions.  (Local, State, Federal)
• Review permit drawings for City, County, DOT, and MOT permits.  Determine where to gather necessary utility information and give feedback to drafting technicians
• Understand how to create underground bore profile drawings and/or aerial pole data tables
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at a time and create methods to organize tasks into a project flow and report as needed
• Participate in scope review with customer and/or vendors to ensure design requirements and output are understood thoroughly
• Work with engineering resources to create High Level Design to define the path for the engineering fielding tech crew
• Assemble designs in the most cost-effective method with consideration of the impact of construction and material cost and the optimization of Corning specified materials
• Use fielding data, photos, and sketches to create the design and provide feedback to walkout crews where questions remain
• Occasional site visits to obtain necessary design information and confirm design requirements with the customer will be required
• Ensure obstacles such as culverts, waterways, easements, aerial trespass, etc. are accounted for in the design
• Review construction level prints for OSP FTTX designs and provide feedback

Required Education

• Four-year degree from an accredited institution and 8+ years of relevant optical OSP engineering experience required

• Successful candidate will have advanced knowledge of GIS, AutoCAD and or other CAD/GIS programs, such as Civil3D, ArcGIS, QGIS, Vetro, Biarri and IQgeo

• Candidate must be able to develop creative solutions using multiple product sets
• Tier 1/Tier 2 FTTX design standards knowledge
• Experience with complex permitting requirements for FTTX builds, (RR, Environmental, DOT etc.)
• Extensive knowledge with NESC requirements, ability to find cost effective path based on make ready engineering requirements

Desired Experiences

• Four-year engineering degree from an accredited engineering institution preferred
• OSP fiber engineering experience highly desired
• 8-10 years or more of experience in the Telecommunications industry
• Familiarization with Corning products
• Outside Plant Fiber Optic Design
• Experience with computer aided drafting (CAD)
• Knowledge of Passive Optical Network products (FTTx, LAN, Data Center) and how they are utilized to create network design solutions