Cell Site Engineer

Verizon•New York, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Cell Site 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 maintaining 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. Conducting routine, preventative maintenance on assigned cell sites to identify potential issues during general site inspections. Complying with the company- and industry-wide standard directives to maintain network performance and enhance efficiency.

Requirements

Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
Ability to perform physical requirements of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Valid driver’s license.
Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time
Ability to report to the designated job site/work location within 45 minutes to one hour of notice to provide rotational on-call coverage for the Manhattan territory.
Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Nice To Haves

A technical degree in Electronics or Telecommunications.
Experience in troubleshooting antenna systems from transmitter to antenna using tools like a spectrum analyzer.
Experience in PIM/VSWR/MIMO/RET, including knowledge of fiber and LTE remote radio heads.
Experience in electronics training in telecommunications, two-way radio, paging, or microwave radio.
Experience in training in data communications, digital communications, operating systems, applications, computer support, scripting, project management, or power.
Experience in Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, or Ericsson, base station equipment with LTE or CDMA technology.
Telecom experiences such as T1, DACS, or OMP.
Experience in dark and lit fiber testing using equipment such as OTDR, and fiberscope.
Experience in computer support, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.
Power experiences such as Galaxy, Lorain, or DC distribution systems.

Responsibilities

Performing optimization, troubleshooting, and maintaining 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.
Conducting routine, preventative maintenance on assigned cell sites to identify potential issues during general site inspections.
Complying with the company- and industry-wide standard directives to maintain network performance and enhance efficiency.