OSP Engineer - II at Mastech Digital

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking an OSP Engineer – II for our client in the Telecom domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract position, and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 24+ Months Contract 

Location: Altoona, PA

Role: OSP Engineer - II

Primary Skills: Outside Plant Engineering Practices/ Engineering

Role Description: The OSP Engineer – II must have at least 3-5+ years of experience. For this role, you must be a Telecommunications Professional with Field Engineering experience and must be capable of engineering routine and specific outside plant work prints.

You must be capable of driving out into a specific geographic territory, meeting with customers, taking field notes, designing the facilities and working in several databases to input field notes, price the project, review final design and submit for construction. Also provide administrative and field support to the outside plant work forces for current projects. 

You will be required to report to the office 2 days a week but could be more days during the first few weeks for training.

You will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing the client’s network infrastructure in specific geographic locations including but not limited to the Altoona and Johnstown area. This work will include designing upgrades, repairs, and enhancements to the Outside Plant telephony network which includes all structures (such as poles and conduit systems), cable (copper & fiber) and associated equipment for aerial, underground, buried, and customer premise equipment for single and multi-tenant buildings. Also will be meeting with customers and completing Site Surveys for HBW/FTTP/Fiber to the Cell tower projects along with placement of customer premise equipment for multiple types of buildings and structures. 

The engineer will design HBW/FTTP/FTTC service order requirements within a geographical turf and design solutions to extend fiber or copper service solutions to customer locations. You will coordinate with a variety of client departments and also have direct customer contact. 

You will need the ability to work in a diverse environment, handling business and residential customers, and must be able to solve complex problems with innovative solutions. You must be able to price out solutions and select the most effective design. You will work with an Engineer and will have the authority, up to a set dollar limit, to choose and implement solutions independently.

Responsibilities/Perform the following work functions:

- Respond to service requests for HBW/FTTP/FTTC and Hi-Cap circuits by reaching out to customers both over the phone and by conducting site visits.

- Responsible for field engineering the placement of OSP structure, facilities and electronics to meet service demand.

- During physical field visit, you must be able to identify/recognize incorrect or unsafe conditions (e.g. missing anchor/guy) and design proper corrective plant configurations.

- Design Engineering Work Orders in ICGS/IDDS and other CAD programs

- Tracking and monitoring construction and other departments, which may include contractors, to assure timely completion of the engineering work orders and plans issued.

Required Skills/Experience:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or technical/science/mathematics fields or prior work experience in the Telecommunications Field Engineering at least 2 years.

- Prior working experience and basic knowledge of Outside Plant Engineering Practices, Proficient computer skills (windows-based programs and google systems).

- Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills.

- Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.

- Customer contact skills and good written and oral communications skills are necessary.

Desired Skills/Experience: (valuable, but not required to obtain the position)

- 3-5 years of prior working field engineering experience and knowledge of Outside Plant Engineering Practices.

- Prior working experience and basic knowledge of TIRKS, Canvas, LFACS and IDDS/ICGS, CAD

- Experience with the CAD program as well as high proficiency with MS Excel and/or MS Access, Google sheets would be particularly useful.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent

Experience: Minimum 3+ years of experience

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis (No C2C)

Recruiter Name: Usha Devi

Recruiter Phone: 412.214.9523  

Equal Employment Opportunity