OSP Engineer

Mountain Ltd. has an opening for an OSP Engineer II in the Kennewick, WA area.

Since 1979, Mountain Ltd. has successfully created and supported turnkey engineering solutions for traditional and wireless telecom providers across the United States. We are a national leader in the industry, providing high-quality engineering, on-time service delivery, and skilled personnel paired with innovative technology and creative solutions. Specialties include OSP/ISP engineering, design, permitting, right-of-way, and CAD for traditional and wireless telecommunications companies.

Job Description

This individual performs detailed outside plant facility engineering tasks that include estimating, analyzing, designing, planning, and budget tracking estimates against actual costs for copper and fiber cables, poles, direct buried and conduit systems. This position is responsible for preparing and interpreting engineering plans, drawings, and reports; preparing loop loss design for load and repeater electronics; planning and designing field-mounted switch serving areas;

and performing pole, conduit, and buried facility design measurements to support company and industry OSP design standards and economic feasibility studies. This position is also responsible for specific job budget development and tracking, as well as periodic job inspections and quality control.

Performs duties such as collecting field data, preparing/organizing permit packages for submittal to the appropriate entities, maintaining complex files, keeping records, searching, and investigating information contained in files, processing departmental documents requiring specific knowledge of functional operations, posting records including accounting and continuing property records, typing correspondence and reports from rough drafts, and assisting engineers as requested.

Qualifications:

• Ability to identify existing voice/data plant, electric, and other utilities on the site plans as well as in the field.
• Ability to indicate existing voice/data plant location and relocate facilities, along with knowledge of obtaining right of ways and easements where required.
• Must be capable of engineering routine and specific COE/OSP work orders, including more complex projects such as road moves.
• Must have expert knowledge of COE/OSP principles, work order procedures, voice/data industry standards, PC applications, and COE/OSP record and/or computer-aided drafting systems.
• Must have own tools such as a measuring wheel, height stock, pull finder, laptop, etc.
• Experience/Understanding with the National Electric Safety Code (NESC) for engineering requirements.

Pay: $25-36/hr depending on experience.

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