Fiber Engineer # JN -052021-64113

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
• Participate in on-call rotation providing Fiber engineering Support after normal work hours
• 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.