Zunch Staffing
OSP Engineer
Location: Various, OH
Job Description:
Our client is seeking an experienced OSP Engineer to support outside plant network design initiatives. This role involves creating and modifying detailed drawings using CAD and GIS tools, performing high-level network design, and ensuring accuracy and conformance with engineering standards and client specifications.
Key Responsibilities:
Location: Various, OH
Job Description:
Our client is seeking an experienced OSP Engineer to support outside plant network design initiatives. This role involves creating and modifying detailed drawings using CAD and GIS tools, performing high-level network design, and ensuring accuracy and conformance with engineering standards and client specifications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and update detailed OSP engineering drawings using AutoCAD, QGIS, and other client-specific systems.
- Interpret sketches, layouts, and field notes to develop conduit and cable design plans.
- Design and layer outside plant facilities including conduit, fiber optic and copper cables (aerial, buried, and underground), manholes, hand holes, and utility poles.
- Analyze site surveys to translate field data into construction-ready design documents.
- Identify and avoid facility conflicts in rights-of-way, easements, and near existing utilities.
- Perform pole loading, bonding & grounding, and anchoring analysis for aerial facilities.
- Collaborate with engineers, project managers, and construction personnel to ensure accuracy and feasibility of designs.
- Acquire OSP records, utility maps, assessor maps, and construction prints from local municipalities and other sources.
- Prepare and submit permit applications to city, county, state, and regulatory agencies including those requiring traffic control, railroad, and environmental approvals.
- Maintain documentation and support system management, including file maintenance, data backup, and storage.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, ARAMIS, GIS, O-Calc, and IQGeo tools (experience with Aramis and IQGeo is a plus).
- Strong knowledge of OSP engineering, including aerial, buried, and underground design practices.
- Experience reading and producing outside plant drawings, conduit prints, and permit drawings.
- Minimum 2 years of telecom design experience or an associate/bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Solid understanding of ROWs, easements, utility coordination, and permitting processes.
- Preferred experience with GPON and Corning Flexnap products.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work across internal and external teams.
- Capable of handling multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment; self-motivated and detail-oriented.
- Ability to sit and work on a computer for extended periods.
- Manual dexterity for operating a keyboard and standard office equipment.
- Visual acuity for close-up work and color differentiation.
- Occasional lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds.