Engr III Spec-Ntwk Operations

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As a Cell Site Field Engineer, you'll be out in the field keeping our facilities and equipment in top form by maintaining several locations in your assigned area. You'll be doing regular maintenance, keeping inventories, doing audits, and maintaining and upgrading cell sites or installations. You'll also be evaluating our network coverage and finding ways to make it even better.

• Performing optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of base station equipment, RF transmitters, and Fiber network.

• Testing the fiber network and integrating network hardware to bring new products on-air and enhance customer experience.

• Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations.

• Configuring network routers and switches for network optimization.

• Conducting routine, preventative maintenance on assigned cell sites to identify potential issues during general site inspections.

• Complying with company and industry-wide standard directives to maintain network performance and enhance efficiency.

Physical requirements of the job may include but are not limited to climbing stairs and ladders, working from elevated areas and lifting objects.

What we're looking for...

Being the first one to encounter and solve a problem is enjoyable to you. You're great at following an established process or procedure to complete tasks. Experience navigating and working well at all levels in a fast-paced, ever-changing network environment. You are dependable and enjoy supporting the rotational needs of a technical environment.

You'll need to have:

• Associate's degree or two or more years of work experience.

• Three or more years of relevant work experience.

• Valid driver's license.

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 75% of the time.

• Willingness to work rotating shifts including weekends, holidays and be on-call.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.

• Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and technologies like Telephony Switching, Data Communications and Network Routers.

• Computer support experience, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.

• Vendor management experience.

• Experience in PIM/VSWR/MIMO/RET including knowledge of fiber and LTE remote radio heads.

• Experience with Samsung or Ericsson base station equipment with LTE or 5G technology.

• Knowledge of scripting and configuration of routers and switches.

• Experience with dark and lit fiber testing using equipment such as OTDR, and fiberscope.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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