Military Fellowship - Network Construction Engineer

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Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 1-2025.

The Network Construction Engineer will be responsible for performing Field Engineering and Vendor Management roles across a wide geography, responsible for engineering and installing the Domestic US Core Networks; Intelligent Edge Network (iEN), Unified Transport, FTTCS/5G, Voice and Data, and Transport Core networks. You will engineer and manage multiple simultaneous projects, from issuance of required engineering documentation through managing the entire installation lifecycle; in particular to resolve technical issues as they present themselves. You will utilize Verizon Capacity Creation Process (CCP) system, CoFEEEngineering, ICON/CCC, and other internal systems to document all technical solutions and ensure a timely deployment of all builds. Additional responsibilities include:

• Managing multiple Capacity Creation Requests for new hardware deployments, reconfigurations, decommissions, and First Office Application (FOA) projects.

• Interfacing with Operations and other Implementation organizations in performing site surveys to obtain critical site-specific pre-engineering data prior to the build, as well as post-installation redlines and end of job audits.

• Negotiating, coordinating, and driving/tracking completion of project milestones with all appropriate stakeholders, to include third party turf vendors.

• Facilitating and maintaining relationships with multiple service vendors, including pricing compliance, standards creation, and compliance, and conducting quality reviews -to include follow-up remediation as appropriate and periodic performance reviews.

• Maintaining excellent communication with Project Manager, Functional Team Members, and Direct Management to ensure early identification of issues and timely reporting of status.

• Performing the end-of-job (EOJ) walkthrough/audit of build for IP72202 installation practice adherence.

• Managing multiple projects providing timely reporting, and effectively coordinate with Planning, Vendor Technical Management, and Program Management organizations.

• Managing and scheduling multiple projects, balancing their workload in accordance with corporate priorities.

• Coordinating with Planning, Program Management, and third party turf vendor organizations, program/project status updates and readouts, and contributing to team transformation and process/procedure improvements.

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 1-2025.

• Associate's degree or two or more years of work experience.

  Three or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience in Telecom Engineering and Network Implementation.

• Experience in Telecom Installation and Central Office Quality Standards.

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

• A valid Driver's License.

• Ability to manage changing priorities, competing priorities, and situations in which guidelines can change.

• Knowledge of CWDM/DWDM multiplexing to maximize fiber resources.

• Knowledge of CRAN & ERAN architecture and coordination mechanisms.

• Engineering, Planning, and/or Ops knowledge, especially with Verizon Networks.

• Past experience with ICON, CCP, CoFEE, nSAP, vSAP and SRM as well as expense and/or capital budgets.

• Solid understanding of telecom networking, networks and technologies, equipment designs and configuration procedures, and inventory.

• Strong technical and project management skills as well as excellent PC and software application skills including Windows and MS Office.

• Leadership, self-starter with strong management and organizational skills.

• Excellent verbal and written skills for inter-organizational communications.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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