OSP Engineer Job Description (2023)

OSP EngineerJob Description

Review preliminary construction prints from right-of-way authorities and determine potential conflicts

Consults with the Optical Manager and Network Manager on outside plant design and network engineering issues

Participates in the development of departmental objectives, policies, and procedures for engineering activities

Develops engineering budget objectives and controls

Stakes all lines to be built, including new or replacement construction, road moves, or additions

Assists in regrouping new and existing plant and coordinating the installation and design of customer serving areas and subscriber carrier systems

Interprets pre-construction staking sheets and updates work orders with all necessary information for plant personnel to locate and install facilities and equipment

Reviews all new technologies and potential services and makes recommendations to Engineering and Network Managers on engineering and design requirements, costs and impact

Develop understanding and complies with Company quality program

Review, prioritize and complete projects involving construction of aerial and underground fiber projects

Prefer 2+ years’ previous OSP/ISP wireline field/data collection/site walk experience

Certificate or Associate’s degree in engineering technology, CADD or sciences

Coordinate civil site construction of towers, buildings, grounding, conduits for Telecommunication Sites

Coordinate fiber repairs on fiber outages in coordination with Telecom Operations and will develop controlled splice procedures (MOPs – Method of Procedure)

Review, prioritize and categorize projects

Engineer and design fiber routes including railroad, river and highway crossings including working with Right of Way team for proper permits

Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of OSP engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.

Responsibilities for OSP engineer

• Work with Design and Documentation team to create construction, splicing and as-built drawings
• Select and manage Inspectors and construction contractors
• Provide project coordination including attending weekly meetings and field site visits
• Provide technical support to Telecom Operations as required
• Develop Internal / External partnerships and relationships
• Test, adjust, and troubleshoot moderately complex equipment
• Responsible for organizing complex activities for the development, implementation, and maintenance of OSP engineering projects
• Requires a wide range of experience, using sound engineering practices and company objectives to resolve issues in creative and effective ways
• Utilizes high level of communication and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive and productive working relationships
• Promotes positive change in the company's business strategy through achievement of customer and internal specific objectives and technological innovation of practical and profitable nature

Qualifications for OSP engineer

• Bachelor's degree in engineering technology, sciences or related discipline
• Possess entry to basic level knowledge of communications technologies and inter-networking principles
• Demonstrate competency in analytical techniques necessary to handle basic assignments
• Exhibit fundamental understanding for pertinent telecom equipment, materials, systems and business processes
• Demonstrate the ability to be a team player
• Develop decision making skills under guidance of higher level employees

Our innovative and growing company is looking for an OSP engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.

Responsibilities for OSP engineer

• Provide detailed design of AC, DC and auxiliary power systems as it relates to government design-build requirements
• Provide detailed SOWs to potential subcontractors for bidding purposes
• Estimate costs and/or review cost estimates by others to provide accurate and competitive pricing to potential clients
• Provide technical writing inputs for proposals as it relates to power, structured cabling (ISP and OSP), site prep and/or construction
• Provide expert advice in the development and execution of agreements with subcontractors to ensure that scope of work and responsibilities include all necessary tasks, and risk allocation is carried out appropriately
• Work with systems engineers to provide inputs to optimize designs and facilitate installations and improve efficiency during project implementation
• Provide post-award project deliverables such as MOPs, SATs, EDPs, and drawing inputs
• Coordinate the post-award site prep implementation with the project managers
• Coordinate and provide expert advice in the purchasing of materials and equipment for project execution
• Lead review meetings with contractors to verify adherence to schedule, quality of work, potential challenges, changes in scope, reasons for delays and all other matters related to the project implementation

Qualifications for OSP engineer

• Engineering degree or 1-3 years of related ISP/OSP Engineering/Construction experience
• Knowledge of applicable construction rules, regulations and permitting requirements
• Working knowledge of applicable construction, installation and operation safety practices
• Basic Project Management applications experience
• Experience in working with clients/customers to define requirements and scope projects
• Experience in working with peer engineers and technicians to develop long range plans, implementation scopes and immediate courses of action

Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of OSP engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities for OSP engineer

• Responsible for improvements to the procedures and training instructions for the OSP organization, this includes but not limited to participating as a lead auditor in all aspects of process and procedures
• Responsible for leading work sessions to review audits and recommend corrective actions
• Lead OSP efforts and manage safety and quality improvement to support rapid improvement
• Coordinate construction activities with municipalities, permitting agencies, Caltrans, BLM, National Forest and all associated stakeholders to ensure compliance and appropriate follow-through of policies, procedures, and completion dates applicable for assigned projects
• Direct, supervise, and inspect the work of OSP construction contractors
• Support the design cycle of the Outside Plant Fiber Network from preliminary design through to a fully constructible job package
• Support new developments, network relocations and network upgrades
• Review design specs and documentation
• Manage and support ticketing system, review requests for information from our vendors
• Create workflows and processes

Qualifications for OSP engineer

• Translate conceptual / verbally articulated project specifications and requirements
• Experience in managing contract construction/installation work teams
• Typically a minimum of 3+ years related work experience with OSP/ISP Fiber Design, highly prefer 5+ years related work experience
• Ideal candidates will have some fiber construction experience or insight in fiber network component design and use
• Able to sit and work 8 hours a day in front of a computer
• Produce and update drawings and database in G-Technology GIS System (CAD & GIS Based Skills are Essential)

Our company is hiring for an OSP engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.

Responsibilities for OSP engineer

• Develop an understanding and complies with the company quality program
• Support continuous improvement and change management efforts
• Contribute to preparation of less complex engineering deliverables such as drawings, reports, specifications, and studies of limited scope
• Perform routine research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection
• Collect, assimilate, and manage data for engineering work
• Prepare basic engineering calculations following standard methods and principles used in similar engineering analysis
• Understand and adhere to budget, schedule, and quality requirements
• Focus on the needs of internal clients (project team leadership) while attempting to gain basic understanding of external client's main interests and drivers
• Support finance metric development, reporting and dashboard reporting
• OSP staking

Qualifications for OSP engineer

• Identify and analyze customer needs (specifications, requirements, ) to formulate viable economic design solutions based on resources, costs, and business impact
• Ability to track, prioritize and complete multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to meet deadlines and work with others in a team environment
• Knowledge of accepted engineering practices
• Knowledge of aerial and buried cable placement and splicing methods, fiber
• Analyze project requirements by communicating effectively with corporate management, project managers, and route technicians

Our growing company is looking for an OSP engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities for OSP engineer

• Determine transport type
• Obtain CLLI’s for customer locations
• Determine engineering plan to place facilities to customer premises, create timelines, monitor contracted work to this timeline
• Issues jobs according to corporate process
• Determine engineering of splitter placement (if applicable)
• Assist, when necessary, Perform Capacity Provisioning Tactical Planning/Collocation process, including monitoring, timing, and sizing network additions of standard models and architectures
• Analyze and evaluate customer requirements and determine the equipment type, location and hand-off
• Create accurate work packages to include, but not limited to, Job #, Customer order details, Scope of Work, contract info, design work, eqpt work, assignments, distances, time frames
• Review work packages for quality and detail to standards
• Perform multiple field walk-out assignments on a daily basis over varying terrain and in weather conditions as encountered

Qualifications for OSP engineer

• Perform field surveys to verify existing documentation and completed scope of work requirements for project completion
• Engineer fiber cable routes to meet circuit diversity and redundancy requirements
• Create fiber schematics and assignments to communicate needed changes to field technicians
• Create detailed MOP documents to outline splicing activities and support these activities as required
• Knowledge of IRU agreements
• 1-5 years experience with various aspects of AutoCAD and OSP engineering