Fiber Engineer

Pay Rate: $57 per hour.

Job Responsibilities: • Attend Kick-Off meetings if new backbone, lateral, and / or riser fiber is required.

• Review sales engineering design and determine backbone fiber route.

• Obtain necessary circuit identifiers from groups; or create as required.

• Create a Fiber DLR in Netcracker for A-Z fiber locations.

(Note: New sites require the site survey form completed, submitted, and entered in the system prior by Fiber Construction.) • Design fiber route and create all necessary splicing prints and work orders for vendors performing splicing work within the active backbone.

• Provide fiber assignments to Construction Team for lateral fibers to last demarc panel if new lateral is required.

Construction to handle MPOE splice & demarc splices on new lateral builds only.

Coordination of fiber cable count & demarcs will need to be obtained from Construction.

• Fiber Engineering responsible for all backbone splicing & end/end testing.

(Note: Splicing can be managed by Fiber Construction where requested.) • Obtain Quote/Bids from contractors for all backbone splicing & end/end testing.

• Create Requisitions for Purchase Order approval and payment to vendors.

• Manage vendors / contractors during splicing & testing of circuits.

• Submit all necessary Change management notifications and adhere to field activity policies and guidelines.

• Provide Operations / Provisioning with final DLR’s & test shots for closeout • After completion close out tasks in CRM.

• Approve all vendor invoices for the project in ReqLogic.