Senior Design Technologist

The Senior Designer is responsible for the design, planning, and documentation of wired telecommunications infrastructure, including outside plant (OSP) and inside plant (ISP) copper and fibre optic systems. This role develops scalable, standards-compliant network designs and produces construction-ready documentation to support installation, testing, and commissioning activities. The Sr. Designer also provides technical mentorship and quality oversight across design projects, working closely with Sales, Service, Project Management, and clients.

We are looking for candidates with substantial hands‑on experience designing and delivering telecommunications infrastructure projects. Demonstrated career experience and a strong project track record are valued more than formal certifications or professional designations — no professional licensing or registration is required for this role.

• Develop telecommunications design concepts and objectives, including route planning, pathway design, fibre allocation, strand management, splicing schematics, and loss budgets for both OSP (aerial and underground) and ISP structured cabling infrastructure.
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation for telecommunications systems and subsystems.
• Prepare project plans, including required resources, development timelines, cost estimates, and link budgets.
• Establish design specifications and construction requirements by applying telecommunications engineering principles and industry standards.
• Develop and evaluate multiple system design alternatives and recommend the optimal solution.
• Provide cost-effective design solutions to complex telecommunications infrastructure challenges.
• Investigate and determine appropriate design factors, including equipment availability, material requirements, contractual specifications, and cost considerations.
• Identify potential technical risks, operational challenges, and design limitations, and recommend mitigation strategies.

• Perform site surveys to support telecommunications design work.
• Design and engineer ISP and OSP copper and fibre optic networks, including aerial and underground infrastructure.
• Develop fibre splicing, termination, and interconnection designs, including panels, closures, and cross-connects.
• Design GPON, XGS-PON, and FTTH architectures for access networks, including detailed design from the central office/hub to the customer's point of entry, terminal boundary mapping, and fibre count allocation across commercial, single-family, and multi‑dwelling classifications.
• Assess and incorporate Right of Way (ROW), municipal, regional, and third‑party requirements to compile permit documents based on specification sheets, joint‑use agreements, utility maps, survey files, and as‑built drawings.
• Produce structured cabling system designs for commercial, industrial, and institutional environments.
• Design LAN and WAN network architectures, including redundancy, resiliency, and segmentation strategies, and develop Layer 2/Layer 3 topology and traffic‑flow considerations (no device‑level configuration).
• Perform network capacity planning and infrastructure scaling analysis.
• Design data centre cabling systems and interconnect architectures, and develop carrier interconnection and demarcation designs, including entrance facilities and handoff points.
• Design grounding and bonding systems for telecommunications infrastructure in accordance with applicable standards.
• Coordinate with civil, structural, and electrical disciplines for overhead and underground infrastructure design.
• Define fibre testing and acceptance criteria, including certification methodologies (e.g., OTDR, loss testing).

• Prepare maps, schematics, system documentation, engineering drawings, bills of materials, and construction work packages to support installation, testing, and commissioning.
• Create Engineering Work Packages (EWP), Construction Work Packages (CWP), Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) reports, detailed Scope of Work (SOW), and Bills of Materials (BOM), including cabinet details, installation…