Planning Engineer I Richmond, VA or Work from Home
About Lumen
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With 450,000 route fiber miles serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure global platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about Lumen s network, edge cloud, security and communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com, LinkedIn:
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The Role
Responsible for evaluating, planning, and estimating optimal metro fiber network capacity utilization and design requirements. Ensures efficient and timely deployment of metro fiber, meeting customer demand through analyzing current network designs, route consumption trends, new technologies and future opportunities for augmentation. Assimilates various internal and external customer requirements, creates new metro fiber network capacity solutions, assembles the required fiber augment costs and budgets and participates in the overall fiber augment approval and trigger process. Undertakes specific network simplification and network enablement projects.
The Main Responsibilities
Applies understanding of current metro fiber network configuration and technology to ensure capacity and efficiency of the planned designs. May participate in definition of new network configurations, technologies, and best planning practices. May provide direction for the development of tools to monitor, manage, and report on the network.
Documents technical methodology for installation of metro fiber of moderate complexity, including written directions, graphical fiber layouts, and fiber topology.
Develop fiber construction costs estimates using existing network mapping programs.
Issues fiber construction projects based on estimates.
Prepares status/progress reports and updates management on projects. Participates in development of reports. May present new reports and summaries of network data to Management, Product Teams, and Network Planning.
Participates in the development of plans to augment, optimize, and reconfigure the fiber network as growth dictates. May participate in cross functional teams to change or modify estimates as need arises.
What We Look For in a Candidate
Required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience
- 2
years of related experience
Preferred:
- Master's degree in related field
What to Expect Next
Based on your job application information you may be given the opportunity to complete a video interview immediately after applying. This will include a set of questions for you to record a response to in addition to Game Challenges. Completion of this video interview is a requirement in order to be considered for our open position. Now not a good time? No worries, we will also send you an email with a link to complete the video interview. We strongly recommend that you complete this within 5 days of your application date.Requisition #:
248512
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Disclaimer
The above job definition information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on changing business needs and conditions.
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