Cell Site Engineer

Verizon • Independence, MO

8h • 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 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, and 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 Northwest Missouri 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.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Nice To Haves

• A technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and technologies like Telephony Switching, Data Communications, and Network Routers.
• Computer support experience, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.
• Vendor management experience.
• Experience in PIM/VSWR/MIMO/RET, including knowledge of fiber and LTE remote radio heads.
• Electronics training in telecommunications, two-way radio, paging, or microwave radio.
• Training in data communications, digital communications, operating systems and applications, computer support, scripting, project management, or power.
• Experience with Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, or Ericsson, base station equipment with LTE or CDMA technology.
• Telecom experience, such as T1, DACS, or OMP.
• Knowledge of scripting and configuration of routers and switches.
• Experience with dark and lit fiber testing using equipment such as OTDR and fiberscope.
• Power experience 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.

Benefits

• health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & 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 and tuition assistance
• incentives
• premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc
• Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree