Network Engineer

Brightspeed is looking for an experienced Network Engineer to join our team! As a Brightspeed Network Engineer you will be responsible for the design and preparation of Engineering work orders for land developments, new buildings, single line requests, rehab, DSL, FTTN, FTTH, FTTT, road relocations, augmentation projects and special circuit requests. You will be utilizing the following tools: IQGeo, JDS, FORTE, WFMT, ARMOR, TIRKS, LFACS, and the full suits of MS Office. As an OSP Field Engineer you will be assigned a geographic area and will be responsible for the OSP job requests. In this role you will design and acquire civil permits, maintain positive interaction with internal and external customers, maintain open conversation with planning and all company departments providing a high quality of service to Brightspeed customers. 

As Network Engineer your responsibilities will include: 

• Developing/defining plans for the implementation of new plant construction or modifications to existing facilities
• Preparing plans and specifications, to include gathering field data
• Assuring the most feasible, practical and economical means to complete the work utilized
• Providing cost data to support capital planning and budgeting
• Monitoring and controlling product expenditure
• Overseeing the installation/ construction and testing of plant facilities
• Analyzing local and wide area network systems and/or customer network environment, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting operating systems and protocol suites, and configuring communication media with concentrators, bridges and other devices
• Resolving interoperability problems to maintain operations across all platforms including email, file transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like 
• Configuring systems to user environments 
• Supporting acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services as needed