Optical Network Engineer

Our Utility Client in Pearl River, NY is looking for an Optical Network Engineer for a 12+month role. HYBRID ONSITE

Optical Network Engineer – Corporate Communications Transmission Network (CCTN)

Who We Are

At Client, we celebrate a long and proud history of energizing the most vibrant region in the country. We provide safe and reliable energy to our customers while protecting the environment and fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. Whether during heat waves, severe storms, or cold snaps, we are committed to delivering the reliable service our customers depend on every day.

Join us and help build the energy infrastructure of the future.

About the Team – Corporate Communications Transmission Network (CCTN)

The Corporate Communications Transmission Network (CCTN) is Client's mission-critical telecommunications organization responsible for planning, engineering, deploying, operating, and maintaining the communications infrastructure that supports electric, gas, steam, and corporate operations throughout Client and Orange & Rockland service territories.

CCTN delivers highly reliable and resilient telecommunications services connecting Energy Control Centers, substations, generating stations, data centers, field facilities, and corporate locations. These networks support critical operational technologies and business systems, including:

• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Energy Management Systems (EMS)
• Feeder relay protection systems
• Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)
• Operational Technology (OT) networks
• Corporate data communications
• Communications
• Cybersecurity infrastructure
• Data center connectivity and disaster recovery services

CCTN manages and maintains a diverse telecommunications portfolio that includes fiber-optic transport systems, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) networks, MPLS and IP communications networks, microwave radio systems, carrier services, and supporting DC power infrastructure. The organization plays a vital role in ensuring the reliability, resiliency, security, and modernization of the communications systems that enable Client to safely operate its electric, gas, and steam delivery systems.

What's In It For You

Join our team as an Optical Network Engineer and work alongside telecommunications and network engineering professionals responsible for designing, implementing, operating, and maintaining mission-critical optical communications networks that support Client and Orange & Rockland utility operations.

This position plays a key role in ensuring the reliability, resiliency, capacity, and modernization of the company's telecommunications infrastructure that supports critical utility services throughout New York City, Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, and Orange & Rockland territories.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop design architectures for the Corporate Communications Transmission Network (CCTN), including Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Outside Plant Fiber Cable, microwave transport systems, and DC power infrastructure supporting optical transport equipment.
• Develop engineering plans, scopes of work, bills of materials, technical specifications, and project schedules for the installation of DWDM systems, Outside Plant Fiber Cable, microwave systems, DC power systems, and related telecommunications infrastructure.
• Develop engineering plans, scopes of work, bills of materials, and project schedules for the construction and installation of communications huts, equipment rooms, relay racks, cabinets, grounding systems, and supporting telecommunications infrastructure.
• Develop Methods of Procedure (MOPs) for network implementation, service migrations, maintenance activities, change management, testing, troubleshooting, and emergency restoration efforts.
• Design optical transport networks supporting SCADA, feeder relay protection, Operational Technology (OT) systems, Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), voice services, cybersecurity applications, Energy Management Systems (EMS), and corporate network connectivity.
• Perform network engineering activities supporting telecommunications services between Energy Control Centers, substations, generating stations, data centers, microwave sites, and corporate facilities.
• Perform equipment commissioning, network turn-up, acceptance testing, troubleshooting, service restoration, and lifecycle upgrades using optical and telecommunications test equipment.
• Perform Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT) and physical- and…