JOB TITLE: Engineering Assistant B (TERM)
LOCATION: Bridgeport, WV
UNION: CWA 2011 / 142
JOB POST DATES: March 8, 2023 to March 17, 2023
WAGE RANGE: Weekly: $700 - $1,085.00 -$1,876.50

Engineer Assistant

You are being hired with the express understanding that your employment will terminate within a 6-30 month time frame, upon completion of the Fiber Modernization Project in West Virginia.

Must include formal resume

Summary

Responsible for design of outside plant network from central office to customer premise, including underground, aerial and buried plant for new construction and maintenance activity in the Frontier network.

General Duties

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Utilizing current and evolving technologies including digital loop carrier, broadband, and DSL to accomplish work assignments.
• Utilizing personal computers and/or paper records to obtain information, design circuits and distribute circuit orders.
• Utilizing automated design programs as warranted.
• Interfacing with other organizations throughout the provisioning process in order to facilitate an accurate design.
• Using OSP methods & procedures and multiple databases to prepare designs.
• Utilize service order systems to resolve errors, assignment inventory, and DLC records, and hi-capacity circuits.
• Using planning documents, field notes and multiple databases to analyze data and prepare specific estimates, routine work orders and/or other-defined projects for growth, relief, customer demand, and damaged plant in the outside plant network.
• During physical field visits, individual must be able to identify/recognize incorrect or unsafe conditions and design proper corrective plant configurations.
• Tracking and monitoring construction and other departments, which may include contractors, to assure timely completion of the engineering work orders and plans issued.
• Using economically cost-effective methods and interfacing with multiple databases to ensure timely customer satisfaction of provisioning issues.
• Utilizing computer assisted drafting tools, where available.

Required Education and Experience

• Four-year Electrical Engineering degree highly preferred.
• 3+ years of experience designing OSP and electronic systems preferred.

Additional Information:

• You are being hired with the express understanding that your employment will terminate within a 6-30 month time frame, upon completion of the Fiber Modernization Project in West Virginia.
• You will remain in the same occupation into which you have been hired for the duration of your term of employment.
• You will receive all the benefits to which regular (“permanent”) employees are entitled except for any contractual layoff or termination allowance.
• Before the Company hires a regular full-time employee to fill a vacancy, the Company will give first preference to any qualified term employee who is performing at a satisfactory level in the job title, workgroup, and geographic location in which the vacancy exists.

Job Location – Bridgeport, WV