OSP Engineer

Service only counts when plant leaves the drawing and reaches the street. You will turn fiber and copper expansion plans into outside plant that crews can build, inspectors can accept, and operations can run. Your routes, permits, and field calls decide whether customers connect on schedule or wait on a pole, a permit, or a redraw.

Performance Objectives

• Issue construction-ready OSP packages for fiber and copper routes that clear first review without redesign on at least 90 percent of jobs.
• Lock permits, easements, and make-ready so scheduled builds start on the committed date.
• Set material lists, splice plans, and cost estimates that hold projects inside the approved budget.
• Clear field conflicts—pole loading, conduit fill, restoration—inside the agreed window so outages and rework stay rare.
• Hand over as-builts and GIS records that match what was built and are ready for operations.
• Cut repeat truck rolls by giving contractors notes and quality checks they can follow the first time.

Environment & Resources

You will sit with network planning, construction, permitting, and GIS, and work directly with utilities and contractors. CAD, GIS, and permitting systems are in place, with field time for site walks. You report to the OSP or network engineering lead and shape project cost through design choices rather than owning a P&L.

Essential Qualifications

• OSP design experience for fiber or copper, including route selection, splicing, and construction packages.
• Permitting and right-of-way work with municipalities or utilities that actually got builds started.
• Ability to produce and read CAD and GIS drawings and close accurate as-builts.
• Field judgment on poles, conduit, restoration, and safety that prevents rework.
• Written standards and contractor direction that crews execute without a second briefing.
• A record of on-time, in-budget plant delivery across planners, builders, and inspectors.

Why This Role

• Designs go into live builds, not shelf studies.
• You follow a route from permit to accepted plant and service handoff.
• Planning, construction, and operations sit in one delivery chain.
• Standards you write get reused by the next engineer and the next crew.

If you want your work in the ground and in service, apply now. Tell us about one route you took from plan to accepted as-built.