Engineer - Wireline

Title: Wireline Engineer (OSP/ Field/ GIS)
Location:  Remote but with ability to collaborate in person during initial training and as needs of the business dictate in one of the following locations San Antonio, TX; Brecksville, OH; St. Louis, MO
Duration: 12+ months
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Pay Rate: $38/hr to $40/hr

*** Work hours will be 8-hour workdays with 6 of the hours falling between 9a and 3p EST.

TOP SKILLS REQUIRED:
1. Microsoft Suite Experience (Excel/Word/Teams/PowerBI etc. experience.)
- Ability to use different tools within excel to provide reporting data.
- Understanding Formulas and other tools
- X Lookup, Pivot Tables, Hyperlink, Concatenate and etc.
2. OSP experience
- Knowledge of OSP Poles
o Being able to differentiate between Electric, Cable TV and Telecom Hardware
Copper cable, fiber cable, service drops, peds, J-hooks etc.
o Birthmarks
o Basic understanding of pole ownership and rental
- Working understanding of WALDO (preferred)
o AT&T OSP symbology
3. Must be able to work independently
4. GIS experience, preferably with ESRI products such as ARCGIS PRO.
5. Project Management

Description
Overall Purpose: Outside plant design knowledge and be capable of designing outside plant work orders, providing administrative and field support to the outside plant provisioning process and be familiar with the various communications outside plant engineering concepts, such as copper cable, fiber optic cable and coax cable.

Roles and Responsibilities:
1) Must be able to utilize facility analysis process to select areas for rehabilitation, coordinate field work, preparation of work order drawings and documentation updating work order records in an accurate and timely manner, analysis of reports, providing work order estimated expenditures and/or placement and joint use memos.
2) Must have a knowledge of telephone industry standards, accessing, reading and interpreting mechanized assignment records, PC applications, OSP record and/or computer aided drafting systems.
3) Must be able to interact with all on-line computer systems that AT&T requires.
4) Qualified to review underground structure design and apply a structural or civil professional engineering (P.E.) stamp when requested. Licensed within the state where work is being performed.
5) Securing the necessary field information, record verification, document preparation, data input, preparing work order construction prints, records posting. Must be able to make recommendations to AT&T employees on all findings and needed changes.
6) Must be in compliance with the latest revisions of the National Electric Safety Code, the National Electric Code, AT&T practices and procedures, local and governmental jurisdiction and be in accordance with instructions supplied by AT&T.

DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND:
Reporting to the team that manages pole inventories and inspections nationwide. The team’s primary job function is to work in conjunction with the power company or alone through proactive efforts to manage 3rd-party vendors performing pole inventory and/or inspection activities. Deliverables come back from these vendors with the required data attributes where data review needs to occur to confirm quality levels have been met. Data reviews occur in ArcGIS Pro utilizing different layers of data to ensuring the vendor made correct decisions with linking, attachment and pole ownership, pole discrepancies, adds/deletes, etc. Along with ArcGIS, systems utilized for review: Googlemaps, Waldo, ARAMIS, and pictures provided by vendor. Post review, this data is approved and will be stored internally in a new pole record database as well as updating our internal engineering databases.

Main Job Functions:
-Support the deliverable data reviews coming back from the vendors: inventory and/or drop removals
-Support Inventory team in assisting with WC assignments to vendors and other admin tasks to help setup inventories prior to dispatch
-Support inspection projects by performing analysis on pole candidate locations to generate the most efficient dispatch list for vendors
-Support the deliverable data reviews coming back from the vendors: inventory and/or inspections

Soft Skill Set Requirement:
1. Ability to work in a fast-paced data driven environment while working with vendors and the team to achieve goal-oriented work.
2. Self-motivated.
3. Ability to make decisions.
4. Clear communication skills- ability to communicate clearly and concisely within the team environment.

Technical Skill Set Requirement  
1. Microsoft Suite Experience (Excel/Word/Teams/PowerBI etc. experience.)
• Ability to use different tools within excel to provide reporting data.
• Understanding Formulas and other tools
• X Lookup, Pivot Tables, Hyperlink, Concatenate and etc.
2. OSP experience
• Knowledge of OSP Poles 
• Being able to differentiate between Electric, Cable TV and Telecom Hardware   Copper cable, fiber cable, service drops, peds, J-hooks etc.  
• Birthmarks
• Basic understanding of pole ownership and rental
• Working understanding of WALDO (preferred)
• AT&T OSP symbology 
3. GIS experience, preferably with ESRI products such as ARCGIS PRO.
4. Project Management experience

Why Join Our Team
Our team is small, autonomous, and focused on delivering value quickly through AI, analytics, automation, and commonly available enterprise tools. We build practical solutions that help business partners work more effectively and make better decisions.
This role is critical to the foundation of our AI and agent development work. By improving data access, quality, mapping, and readiness, this position helps ensure that our agents, dashboards, and automation solutions are accurate, trusted, and useful.

About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.ptrglobal.com
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