Cell Site Engineer

Verizon•Sioux Falls, SD

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cell Site Engineer maintains facilities and equipment at multiple locations in an assigned area. The role involves performing routine maintenance, managing inventories, conducting audits, and maintaining and upgrading cell sites or installations. The engineer evaluates network coverage and identifies opportunities to improve it, while optimizing, troubleshooting, and maintaining network systems and applications to support system availability and performance. The position provides cell site support across the Northeast portion of South Dakota and the surrounding area. It is worksite-based and performed onsite at defined locations. The engineer may need to respond to rotational on-call coverage by reporting to the designated job site within 45 minutes to one hour of notice. The role includes rotating shifts, weekends and holidays, and travel of up to approximately 25% of the time. Physical requirements may include climbing stairs and ladders; working at elevated locations; lifting and carrying objects weighing up to approximately 65 pounds; and pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting or bending, crawling, squatting, or kneeling in small spaces.

Requirements

Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
Three or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
Ability to perform the 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 or work location within 45 minutes to one hour of notice for rotational on-call coverage.
Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Nice To Haves

Technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and technologies, including Telephony Switching, Data Communications, and Network Routers.
Computer support experience, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.
Vendor management experience.

Responsibilities

Maintain facilities and equipment at several locations in the assigned area.
Perform regular maintenance, maintain inventories, conduct audits, and maintain or upgrade cell sites and installations.
Evaluate network coverage, identify gaps, recommend improvements, and help implement recommendations.
Optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain network systems and applications to assess system availability and performance.
Perform triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.
Generate, drive, and update problem-tracking tickets across multiple systems and continuously improve business practices.
Escalate issues to appropriate internal or external engineering teams for resolution.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Basic and supplemental life insurance and AD&D insurance.
Identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home and auto insurance.
Matched 401(k) savings plan.
Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Tuition assistance.
Potential premium pay, such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances.
Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, increasing with additional service.
Other incentives and an award-winning total rewards package.