NEC Support Engineer (Remote)

Allbridge• Remote, Remote, US, Remote

10d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior NEC Support Engineer is the senior technical escalation resource responsible for supporting, troubleshooting, maintaining, and enhancing NEC premise-based, hosted, cloud, and hybrid voice solutions. The position manages complex cases from diagnosis through resolution, performs root-cause analysis, provides remote and onsite support, mentors engineers, and communicates findings and recommendations to customers, property teams, leadership, and executive stakeholders. This role requires deep hands-on expertise with NEC hospitality systems, including PBX, voicemail, contact center, multi-site networking, PMS and SMDR integrations, E911 compliance, guest-room workflows, room restrictions, housekeeping status, call accounting, and technology lifecycle planning.

Requirements

15+ years of progressively responsible NEC enterprise voice experience; 20+ years strongly preferred, with demonstrated installation, support, architecture, and escalation leadership.
Advanced hands-on expertise with NEC UNIVERGE SV9300, SV9500, 2000IPS, CCIS multi-site networking, ACD, CCWX/Queworx, UM8700/UM8000, and hospitality applications.
Full NEC SV9300 and SV9500 certification portfolios or equivalent demonstrated expertise; NEC Master Technician designation or equivalent advanced credential strongly preferred.
Deep hospitality PMS integration experience across voice, voicemail, SMDR/call accounting, guest-room telephone workflows, mailbox provisioning, room restrictions, maid ID, housekeeping status, and guest billing.
Working knowledge of E911 configuration and compliance requirements under Kari's Law and RAY BAUM's Act.
Strong troubleshooting knowledge of VoIP, SIP, UC, premise, cloud, and hybrid voice environments, plus LAN/WAN, MPLS, Wi-Fi, network design, and QoS for voice.
Proven ability to independently manage complex, service-impacting escalations; perform onsite installation, testing, upgrades, maintenance, training, and system validation.
Strong technical writing and presentation skills, including SOWs, procedures, solution documentation, RFP/RFI responses, executive recommendations, and C-suite briefings.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead cross-functional teams, manage competing priorities, and work effectively in remote and field environments.
Must be able to work independently in a remote or field-based environment, travel to customer properties, support planned after-hours maintenance and emergency events, manage multiple priorities, protect customer information, and communicate professionally with property personnel, ownership groups, vendors, technical teams, and executives.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting major hotel brands, independent hotels, boutique properties, resorts, mixed-use developments, high-density residential properties, or other multi-property environments.
Experience with high-density hospitality Wi-Fi/network design, Univerge Blue/Intermedia, UCaaS, CCaaS, IVA, IVR, intelligent routing, and AI-powered customer-experience platforms.
Familiarity with access control, CCTV/VMS, audiovisual systems, intercom, Valcom mass notification, smart IoT, biometrics, computer vision, and broader property technology.
Experience with technology plan review, POC delivery, ROI/TCO analysis, cloud-migration assessments, standardized technical-response templates, and scalable engineering processes.
NEC UNIVERGE SV9300 - Full Portfolio
NEC UNIVERGE SV9500 - Full Portfolio
NEC 2000IPS - Master Technician
NEC CCIS / Hospitality / ACD
NEC CCWX/Queworx
NEC UM8700 / UM8000
Cisco CCNA
Cognigy Foundations / Conversational AI
Google AI Essentials / Generative AI
Additional NEC enterprise credentials

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior escalation point and subject-matter expert for NEC voice, voicemail, contact center, networking, and hospitality integration issues; own assigned cases through resolution, customer confirmation, and closure.
Install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade, and support NEC UNIVERGE SV9300, SV9500, 2000IPS, UM8700, UM8000, CCIS, ACD, CCWX/Queworx, hospitality applications, endpoints, licensing, SIP services, trunks, and peripheral equipment.
Perform root-cause analysis for recurring or high-impact incidents and document corrective actions, preventive actions, resolution summaries, technical procedures, configuration records, diagrams, and knowledge articles.
Support PMS, voicemail, and SMDR integrations, including guest check-in/check-out, room-phone activation, mailbox provisioning, room restrictions, maid ID/housekeeping workflows, call accounting, and guest billing.
Configure and support E911 requirements under Kari's Law and RAY BAUM's Act, including direct 911 dialing, onsite notification, and dispatchable-location information.
Design and troubleshoot CCIS multi-site environments and voice-related LAN/WAN, MPLS, SIP, Wi-Fi, QoS, firewall, and connectivity issues affecting availability or call quality.
Support NEC Univerge Blue/Intermedia and hybrid cloud-to-premise integrations with existing NEC SV9300/SV9500 environments; advise customers on modernization, cloud migration, reliability, capacity, and lifecycle planning.
Provide remote and onsite support for critical incidents, installations, upgrades, migrations, assessments, maintenance windows, and customer escalations; participate in after-hours support and on-call coverage as required.
Lead customer-facing technical meetings, escalation calls, executive briefings, technology-roadmap discussions, plan reviews, proof-of-concept deployments, SOW development, and RFP/RFI technical responses.
Communicate status, findings, risks, ownership, next steps, and expected timelines clearly and professionally; maintain high customer satisfaction and accountability.
Mentor junior and intermediate engineers, deliver technical workshops and customer/end-user training, and collaborate with Voice, Network, Field Services, Project Management, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Dispatch, and vendor teams.