Senior Design Technologist Job Edmonton area,Alberta Canada,Engineering

3916 56 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T6B 3R8, CAN

Calgary Office Location
1721 27 Ave NE
Calgary, AB T2E, CAN

The Senior Design Technologist is responsible for the design, planning, and documentation of RF, wireless, and wired telecommunications infrastructure, including outside plant (OSP) and inside plant (ISP) systems. This role develops scalable, standards-compliant designs for both radio/RF communication systems and copper/fiber network infrastructure, and produces construction-ready documentation to support installation, testing, and commissioning. The Senior Design Technologist 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

System Design

Develop RF and telecommunications design concepts and objectives, including demand criteria, coverage, channel count, route planning, pathway design, fibre allocation, strand management, splicing schematics, and link/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.

RF and Wireless Engineering

Design and construct RF and telecommunications systems by researching, analyzing, and applying appropriate design techniques and criteria.
Configure systems, characterize path loss, calibrate signal propagation models, and develop network simulations including traffic and loading analysis.
Apply extensive knowledge of two-way radio theory and communications systems, including battery backup systems, base stations, repeaters, multicouplers, duplexers, and cellular/SMR BDAs.
Perform site surveys to support RF and telecommunications design work.

Wired Telecommunications Engineering

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…