Interconnect Transport Engineer

at  Verizon

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The Interconnect engineer will be responsible for providing complete technical oversight and project management for transport network expansion projects including: (1) Macro / Small Cell / In Building / Temp Deployment Projects and/or (2) Transport Only projects. These projects focus on the expansion of the Network Build Plan, EBH, dark fiber, and the One Fiber program supporting southern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and El Paso, TX. The candidate will be responsible for project managing the Southwest Build plan successfully to meet business objectives.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Engineering and project management for the design, acquisition, and implementation for all equipment supporting network infrastructure projects, including but not limited to 3rd party EBH, dark fiber, routed rings, DWDM and SONET Optical transport systems deployed throughout the Verizon Wireless (VZW) Network.
• Maintaining an engineering database for documentation of all fiber assets, plant, FDP panels, and contract management.
• Complete vendor management responsibility including selection, contract negotiation, RFP and ongoing relationships, as well as engineering/design, managing budgets, procurement, and project oversight ensuring objectives are met in accordance with stated timelines.
• Financial responsibility on capital and expense projects - establishing business cases, developing and managing budgets, procurement and bill payments.
• Decision making authority with respect to all of the above duties. It also interfaces constantly with higher levels of the management team across various organizations as part of the process of managing all facets of large, complex infrastructure deployments.
• Regularly working with other group’s forecasts to ensure transport growth projects meet expectant demands in support of the company’s objectives.
• The position regularly works with Network planning on strategic initiatives, to develop future technology solutions, and features and growth jobs on existing products that support our infrastructure.