Job Title: Telecommunications Network Engineer
Location: 100% Remote - EST timezone
Job type and Duration: Contract 5 Months +
Our client, a major Telecommunications provider, is looking to hire multiple Telecommunications Network Engineers to support their New Jersey team.
The Telecommunications Network Engineer will be responsible for the ordering, coordination, implementation, and close-out of the front haul (FH), mid-haul (MH), and long-haul (LH) transport circuits within a given Market including but not limited to the following: - Assist with the development of a dark fiber and transport strategy that includes existing dark fiber, front-haul, back-haul, mid-haul, mid-haul, and long-haul assets as well as potential 3rd party fiber and transport networks.
- Assist with the development of best practices to qualify and assess new dark fiber vendors through technical, financial, and commercial reviews if the existing plant does not meet requirements.
- Assist with the development of the 5G transport standards.
- Assist with the requirements drafting and analysis of initial RFPs that will be utilized to select partners in given markets.
- Assist Transport Engineers with managing all aspects of transport RFPs to achieve the best techno-commercial solution in the event 3rd party data center or dark fiber/transport solutions are needed.
- Assist with the sourcing, contract management, negotiation, and supplier management strategies and practices for all components of the transport network.
Interfaces with organizations to identify data centers and dark fiber transport options to meet architecture requirements. - Coordinate all circuit design, ordering, and testing-related activities with transport engineers and provisioners.
- Manage and maintain an inventory of active transport services and numbering resources.
- Lead periodic meetings with internal and external transport vendor(s) to ensure that dark fiber and circuits are delivered on schedule.
- Attend deployment meetings regularly to provide updates on transport implementation.
- Work with PMO, construction manager, and transport vendor for site visits.
- Ensure all equipment and installation requirements are properly defined for a site
- Work with PMO and construction manager to ensure that the NTP is issued to the transport vendor promptly.
- Establish an excellent relationship with transport vendor(s) to facilitate deployment schedule.
- Manage escalations and expedite with vendors to ensure timely service delivery.
- Coordinate input of network data into designated industry databases and associated reporting.
- Address issues and questions from business, engineering, deployment, and operations groups.
- Escalate implementation-related issue to the leadership team as needed
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