Network Planning Engineer

Everett, United States | Posted on 09/29/2025

• Department Name:
  Fiber Design Construction
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Country:
  United States
• State/Province:
  Washington

Everyone deserves the best internet possible, and that’s the refreshingly great experience we’re creating at Ziply Fiber. We’re bringing fiber to more than one million homes and businesses across the broader Northwest. By pairing brilliantly fast internet with customer choice and control, we’re making it simple and easy for you to connect to the things that matter most to you. Ziply Fiber is based in Kirkland, Washington, providing communities across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana with fiber internet in addition to streaming TV, privacy products, and phone service as well.

The annual salary for this position is $77,000 to $128,000, depending on experience. Benefits include sick leave, paid time off, parental leave, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth, and more.

At Ziply Fiber, our mission is to elevate the connected lives of our communities every day. We are delivering the fastest home internet in the Northwest, with a focus on areas traditionally underserved by mainstream internet companies. As our state-of-the-art fiber network expands in WA, OR, , and MT, so does our need for team members who can help us grow and realize our goals.

We emphasize our values in all our interactions:
Genuinely Caring, Empowering You, Innovation and Improvement, and Earning Your Trust.

Job Summary:

This Network Planning Engineer will be focused on Commercial Business services and is responsible for determining customer service solutions, order coordination, planning, budgeting, and project oversight of a geographical area. Communication and interdepartmental partnering will be crucial to be successful in this role.

• Analyze network capacity to identify the most cost-effective, forward-looking customer solutions.
• Organize a business plan and approach for addressing the customer need while positioning for additional customers or services.
• Drive the appropriate network solutions to support the Product portfolios as well as drive product innovation based on technology capabilities.
• Oversee and develop project costing and support business case analysis.
• Manage and oversee multiple business partners supporting and implementing solutions.
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Contractors, and Construction to determine appropriate solutions for complex issues.
• Support overall tracking and database oversight.
• Guide program architecture solutions while balancing the customer experience, cost, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop proposals and presentations to support the value of the proposed solutions.
• Provide quality internal and external customer service to support network advancement.
• Establish strategic relationships with customers, contractors, and property owners.
• Support Sales as needed to develop solutions and occasionally work directly with customers.
• Develop processes and automation to support LEAN process approaches to solve problems.
• Drive network and process advancement.
• Provide technical guidance and input on technologies for implementation and consideration.
• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience, or a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in an outside plant position.
• Must demonstrate an understanding of ROW, private easement, and permitting with local, state, and federal entities.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of outside plant design, cable count layout, and capacities.
• Must demonstrate an understanding of fiber products and services.
• Must demonstrate an understanding of construction methods and typical related costs for each method.
• Must be able to demonstrate a broad network understanding.

Ziply Fiber is an equal opportunity employer. Ziply Fiber will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and the presence of a non-job-related handicap or disability or any other legally protected status.