Cell Site Engineer

Verizon•Lewis Center, OH

2d•$74,500 - $122,000•Onsite

About The Position

When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife. What you’ll be doing... 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 maintenance of network systems and applications to identify overall system availability and performance. Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations. Performing triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events. Generating, driving, and updating problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continuously improving business practices. Escalating issues to the appropriate internal/external engineer teams for resolution. Physical requirements of the job may include, but are not limited to: climbing stairs and ladders, working from elevated areas, lifting and carrying objects weighing up to approximately 65 pounds, pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting/bending, crawling, squatting, or kneeling in small spaces. Where you’ll be working: In this worksite-based role, you will provide cell site support across the Columbus Zone B territory and the surrounding area.

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 maintenance of network systems and applications to identify overall system availability and performance.
Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations.
Performing triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.
Generating, driving, and updating problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continuously improving business practices.
Escalating issues to the appropriate internal/external engineer teams for resolution.
Performing regular maintenance, keeping inventories, doing audits, and maintaining and upgrading cell sites or installations.
Evaluating network coverage and finding ways to make it even better.