Engineer-Transport - IV

Job#: 2075762

Job Description:

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Position: Transport Engineer

Location: Richardson, TX (Hybrid)

30 Month Contract

Targeted Years of Experience: 7-10 years
Responsibilities:

• After receiving market-level plans, customer capacity requirements, and internal transport requirements, the transport engineer is responsible for timely creation and action on individual Capacity Creation Requests (CCRs) 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 Engineer must have a good understanding of the transport network to effectively 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 Verizon'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 Verizon 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 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.
• Flexibility with full-time schedule, including evenings, weekends, and being on-call.
• 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).

What We're Looking For:

Youll need to have:

• Bachelor of Science Engineering degree and 5-10 years progressive technical experience designing SONET and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transport systems and drawing complex system diagrams using Visio.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communications as well as competent computer skills.
• The ability to learn the nuances of the position, absorb, and eventually teach others that join the team.
• A natural ability to lead others when called upon.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, self-starter, professionally driven, ability to meet deadlines, and comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic settings.

Job Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal, written, analytical, and communication skills.
• Candidate must demonstrate an ability to work with others, be flexible as priorities change, and be sensitive to deadlines and customer needs.
• Experience collecting and consolidating information from multiple tools, systems, or platforms into a single database or data repository.

Preferred Qualification:

• Familiarity with - ICON, CCP, BGW, MECCA, NAUTLUS, CANVAS, TCOMS, or nSAP is a plus.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a retirement plan (401k or local country equivalent) program. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.