Field network engineer

Job Description

Travel 75% of the time. Maintain company truck and tools.

Vulcan Materials, is the nation's leading producer of construction aggregates like asphalt, ready‑mix concrete, etc. They are headquartered in Birmingham, but have approximately 400‑500 locations around the country consisting of both business offices and quarries. This candidate will be joining a large, decentralized team responsible for the design and implementation of the infrastructure at their locations—mainly within a geographic area, but can and will expand nationally.

Typically, each technician is responsible for all of the locations within a couple of states, but provides backup support for the rest of the country. The internal network engineer team is responsible for everything to the firewall, but then this team does all of the layer 2 and 3 infrastructure—managed switches, VLANs, wireless, etc. The role requires travel (will be provided a company vehicle and all airline travel is expensed) and the ability to work hard in outdoor construction zones in all weather elements—hard hats, steel‑toed boots, safety glasses, etc.

The job description is below.

• Infrastructure – this team will be responsible for both the hands‑on implementation and configurations of infrastructure equipment as well as the design of the LAN.
• Network engineer – this team provides support for all of the network equipment at each Vulcan location, (business offices and quarries), which includes servers, POS, card readers, wi‑fi, VLAN, access points, etc.
• Wireless – this person will have to have senior level experience designing and installing wireless access points, VLAN, wireless LAN, etc.

• Technology Installation – Plant and administrative network design and implementation including Cellular, Managed Network Switches, Fiber optic, Fiber optic terminations, VLANs, Wireless point to point, Structured Wiring and Wi‑Fi all optimized for Plant automation systems along with normal business use.
• Provide Support – Provides support for existing area IT technology in the office and plant environments as needed to support the business.
• Train – Provides onsite technical knowledge transfer to end‑users and other support personnel as needed to support the business. Evaluates training needs, training materials available and recommends training alternatives as approved by the Enterprise Manager. Assists in the coordination, planning, and scheduling of area training programs as approved by the Enterprise Manager. Provides knowledge transfer to other field support technicians to support enterprise technology project rollouts.
• Record Information – Recording of support calls that are directly received into the centralized help desk ticket tracking system.
• Coordinate Resources – Serves as project manager as well as leads implementation resource for enterprise technology upgrades and installations. Coordination with onsite internal and external technical resources as needed to meet support requirements.
• Troubleshoot – Assists in the troubleshooting of Telecom WAN chronic sites which includes coordination of the managed technical service provider. Operation of technical tools to collect and document system information that can provide troubleshooting data to analyze and solve problems.
• Champion Continuous Improvement – Stay abreast of professional and technical developments in order to maintain and improve the skills and knowledge needed for superior job performance and to help improve operational efficiency.