OSP Engineer

Mountain Ltd. Remote OSP Engineer – Salem, OR

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.

• Perform detailed outside plant facility engineering tasks including estimating, analyzing, designing, planning, budget tracking estimates against actual costs for copper and fiber cables, poles, direct buried and conduit systems.
• Prepare and interpret engineering plans, drawings and reports; prepare loop loss design for load and repeater electronics, plan and design field mounted switch serving areas, perform pole, conduit and buried facility design measurements to support company and industry OSP design standards and economic feasibility studies.
• Responsible for specific job budget development and tracking.
• Perform periodic job inspections and quality control.
• Collect field data, prepare/organize permit packages for submittal, maintain complex files, keep records, search and investigate information contained in files, process departmental documents requiring specific knowledge of functional operations, post records including accounting and continuing property records, type correspondence and reports from rough drafts, and assist engineers as requested.
• Understand and design network elements providing Fiber to the Home, Copper DSL, Metro-E Ethernet, TDM, Sonet, and fiber solutions.
• Interface with multiple groups, collaborate on intra- and inter-state designs for implementation, write projects implementing a solution, and have a working knowledge of equipment used to provide answers regarding installation and function of the equipment when being placed in-service.
• Understand circuit design, functionality of these devices and work in the system used for this purpose, work with local retail, wholesale, and municipalities regularly.

• 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 and knowledge of obtaining right of ways and easements where required
• Must have experience managing other OSP Engineers and reviewing/correcting their projects
• Expert in obtaining right of ways and easements where required
• Must be capable of engineering routine and specific COE/OSP work orders, including more complex projects including road moves
• Must have an 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 with the local networks
• Ability to perform quality control on engineering work for other members of the team
• Experience/Understanding with the National Electric Safety Code (NESC) for engineering requirements.

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