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What you’ll be doing...

As an Outside Plant Engineer, you will manage a variety of internal and external partners and vendors to oversee construction and maintenance of Verizon’s fiber optic network. Your vital role will ensure that these multi-stakeholder, complex projects are delivered on time, to specifications, and within budget.

• Managing all engineering activities of the assigned turf area for projects associated with expanding and maintaining the OSP network infrastructure.
• Working will include fielding and designing upgrades, repairs, and enhancements to the Outside Plant telephony network which includes all structures (such as poles and conduit systems), cable (copper and fiber) and associated equipment for aerial, underground, buried, and customer premise equipment for multi-tenant buildings.
• Leading large-scale projects, driving productivity through use of vendor resources to meet deliverables.
• Engaging appropriate internal and external organizations and individuals with professional written/verbal communications to accomplish required tasks.
• Coordinating project activities with contractors, developers, municipalities and consultants.
• Proposing solutions supported by sound engineering and operational productivity to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
• Recognizing vulnerabilities in network infrastructure and makes intelligent decisions to ensure reliability–within financial constraints.
• Preparing detailed cost analysis, project specifications, requisitions, and business justifications.
• Processing reports, vendor invoices, material receipts, and other administrative duties.
• Receiving general instruction, otherwise performs independently with minimal supervision, exercising latitude to achieve daily objectives and approaches to critical/complex assignments.
• Communicating project status and progress to team members and customers.
• Multi-tasking to effectively manage a wide range of simultaneous activities often interrupted by other demands.
• Performing field meetings, inspection of construction in progress, and quality control of final product to ensure company requirements are met.
• Communicating project status and progress to team members and customers.
• Responding immediately to network outages, coordinating necessary resources and activities for prompt and appropriate restoral.

This role is eligible to be considered for the Department of Defense SkillBridge Program.

What we’re looking for...

You enjoy managing complex, large-scale projects impacting a large variety of stakeholders, both internal and external. You have a keen eye for detail, but never lose sight of the big picture. Being results-driven and well-organized, you are adept at identifying potential project roadblocks and developing mitigation strategies. Excellent communication and team building skills enable you to negotiate with internal and external partners to ensure nothing gets in the way of success. You are not shy about bringing folks together to solve a problem. You thrive in a fast-paced, high demand environment, making effective decisions quickly, and juggling competing priorities with ease. You are a self-starter and proven motivator of others.

You’ll need to have:

• Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
• Three or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in budget tracking, cost estimation, and cost accounting of capital plans.
• A Valid Driver’s License.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technical/Science/Mathematics fields.
• Knowledge of Fiber plant design, and general construction.
• Experience in utilities coordination.
• Knowledge of fiber installation and standards.
• Experience in telecommunications / data networking or wireless industry.
• Experience in CoFEE, 3GIS, Tableau, CAD, ARCGIS, Google Earth or other mapping and drafting software.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and Powerpoint).

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

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