Contract Planning Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 06 Months

Job Description

• We looking for a Contract Planning Engineer to support our team!  As a Planning Engineer your responsibilities will include managing network elements for voice and data networks and monitoring and evaluating capacity utilization for these networks.
• You will also submit capacity triggers as necessary and forecast and trend bandwidth growth to produce capacity triggers for bandwidth relief.  
• In addition, you will develop plans to augment capacity relief as needed.  Position requires limited direction and guidance/ 

• Main Focus:
  • Documentation of GPON & XGS-PON Existing and Planned activity including Visio diagrams
• Secondary Focus:
  • Triggering projects utilizing the most feasible, practical and economical means/ 
  • Performing engineering work and applied research, development and design of new projects, to include design, fabrication, modification and evaluation of equipment and devices/ 
  • Analyzing complex 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/ 
  • Handling moderately complex engineering assignments/ 
  • Resolving difficult interoperability problems to obtain operation across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like 
  • Support of acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services 
  • May act as a technical project leader or provide work leadership for lower level employees. 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience/ 
• 4 /years of related experience in telecommunications Engineering or Planning (OSP/ISP/Access)
• Ability to communicate fluently with technical individuals from Engineering, Sales and Operations

• Edge, Access or OSP Planning experience