NESC Engineer

Mountain Ltd. has an opening for an NESC Engineer working remotely supporting ID, North West and Eastern, Washington!

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.

Basic duties include locating, cataloging, and inspecting/correcting for NESC compliance for all pedestals, cross boxes, RTs, DSLAMs, Manholes, CEVs and Handholes in the assigned grids. Ideal candidate will have relatively strong ability to use computers/tablets/MS Office programs. The telecom piece could be limited to strong understanding of NESC and ability to identify telecom equipment/facilities in the field to examine for deficiencies.

This individual The OSP Engineer performs detailed outside plant facility engineering tasks that includes estimating, analyzing, designing, planning, budget tracking estimates against actual costs for copper and fiber cables, poles, direct buried and conduit systems. This position is responsible for preparing and interpreting 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. This position is responsible for specific job budget development and tracking. This position is responsible for periodic job inspections and quality control.

Responsible to understand and design network elements providing Fiber to the Home, Copper DSL, Metro-E Ethernet, TDM, Sonet, and fiber solutions.  As such they will be required to interface with multiple groups and collaborate on intra- and inter-state designs for implementation.  They will be expected to write projects implementing a solution and have a working knowledge of the equipment used to provide answers to questions regarding installation and function of the equipment when being placed in-service.  They will also be required to understand circuit design, functionality of these devices and will be expected to understand and work in the system used for this purpose. This position will work with local retail, wholesale, and municipalities regularly.

Qualifications:
• Ability to identify existing voice/data  plant, electric, and other utilities on the site plans
• 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 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 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. 

Thank you for your interest in Mountain Ltd. For more career opportunities, please visit us at www.mountainltd.com.

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