Duration: 6 months
Schedule: Flexibility with full-time schedule, including evenings, weekends, and being on-call.
Job Description:- After receiving market-level plans, customer capacity requirements and internal transport requirements, the transport Planner engineer is responsible for timely creation and action on individual Capacity Creation Requests (CCRs) and NFIDs to initiate US domestic network transport builds across both ULH and OTN Mesh networks.
- Applicant must have extensive logical (not physical) knowledge of SONET and Long-Distance transport systems.
- The Planner Engineer must have a good understanding of the transport network, to effectively Plan, initiate and Engineer network projects.
- Deliver the transport planning team’s key strategic business initiatives, including deployment of new network technology and the adoption of new inventory and provisioning systems.
- Perform planning, forecasting and capacity monitoring of LD/ULH Transport network infrastructure and equipment on a regular basis.
- Support LD transport capacity requirements required to support ***’s full suite of products and customers, both internal and external.
- Perform capacity research analysis and initiate projects based on customer requirements.
- Coordinate with real estate/central office equipment to ensure adequate power, space and cooling are available to support network growth and expansion.
- Perform detailed equipment engineering for network augments. This includes developing all of the specifications required for installation forces to properly install, turn-up, inventory, and configure the equipment, obtaining appropriate management approvals, issuing purchase orders, creating applicable diagrams/drawings, and ensuring vendor delivery.
- Ensure that work meets all applicable engineering, financial, planning, and operational standards.
- Develop Bill of Material and place orders for network equipment, rack, and hardware requirements.
- Define cable requirements, create cable running lists, and order all cables.
- Manage, input, and update central Network Inventory Database (i.e. ICON, Nautilus, CoFEE, CCP) to reflect new builds, adds, and decommissions.
- Develop collaborative working relationships across the *** stakeholders and subject matter experts to enable successful iEN LD/ULH Transport implementation.
- Responsible for providing detailed diversity analysis for internal and external groups in support of future customer orders, mesh network growth, and converged core data networks.
- Create diversification projects based on user group requirements.
- Perform wavelength rearrangements, as needed to reduce stranded network capacity.
- Support multi-year transport capacity forecasts and network builds in order to determine capital funding requirements, along with relevant business cases and justifications.
- Coordinate with GTNOC and provide ad-hoc restoration for priority systems in the event of fiber cable outages.
- Coordinate with lease contracts organization, capital planning, engineering, project management, operations/RCAT to communicate network build plans and obtain stakeholder buy-in.
- Applicant needs to have an understanding of dependencies such as space, power, fiber and diversity and how they will affect their planned projects.
- Responsible for identifying and working with the appropriate stakeholders to resolve issues and eliminate performance roadblocks.
- Perform and provide data analysis, reports, and presentations for transport planning stakeholders.
- Demonstrate leadership, self-motivation and team orientation.
- Train and mentor junior engineers.
- Participate in regular team meetings and conference calls on the projects they are responsible for.
- Ability to locally commute and attend off-site partnership/stakeholder meetings when needed. (An average of 15% per month)
Responsibilities:- Plan, initiate, and engineer network projects.
- Deliver key strategic business initiatives for the transport planning team.
- Perform planning, forecasting, and capacity monitoring of transport network infrastructure.
- Coordinate with various departments to ensure network growth and expansion.
- Perform detailed equipment engineering for network augments.
- Manage and update central Network Inventory Database.
- Provide detailed diversity analysis for future customer orders and network growth.
- Support multi-year transport capacity forecasts and network builds.
- Coordinate with GTNOC for priority system restoration in the event of outages.
- Identify and resolve issues to eliminate performance roadblocks.
- Perform and provide data analysis, reports, and presentations.
- Train and mentor junior engineers.
Experience:- 5-10 years of progressive technical experience designing SONET and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transport systems.
Skillsets:- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Excellent verbal, written, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to work with others, be flexible, and sensitive to deadlines and customer needs.
- Experience collecting and consolidating information into a single database or data repository.
Education:- Bachelor of Science Engineering degree.
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