Engineering Manager – Fiber to the Home

Pay range: $75,000.00 – $130,000.00 / annually

unWired Broadband is searching for a knowledgeable and driven Engineering Manager to join our Fiber to the Home team. Reporting to the Outside Plant Director – FTTH, this position is responsible for managing all phases of an outside plant build to ensure that builds are completed as designed, including all outside plant jobs involving the installation, removal, or rearrangement of outside plant facilities. This position is also responsible for in-person validation of new and existing field design and layout of the OSP telecommunications network to include aerial, buried, and underground fiber network design and layout, underground conduit, handhole, building entrance, and riser facilities.

Essential Duties:

• • Oversee the creation of detailed network designs and plans, including fiber routing, network topology, and equipment specifications. Ensure designs meet performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• • Coordinate and direct building activities on site related to maintenance, testing, quality assurance, operations and production.
• • Design network by determining cable types, equipment needs, and routing configurations for optimal performance and reliability.
• • Assist in developing accurate fiber engineering, permitting, construction budget estimates and timelines.
• • Design projects utilizing digital and non-digital field data collection devices like Height stick, Measuring wheel, Laser’s, Lidar, Katapult.
• • Create construction prints and permits using ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Vetro, Google Earth etc., and other programs as needed.
• • Coordinate with Outside Plant Director-FTTH and construction contractors to verify build completion is per design, ensure quality control and obtain/verify as-built documents for entry into Vetro GIS Fiber Network database.
• • Conduct routine inspections by checking for cable damage, equipment malfunctions, and environmental hazards.
• • Detect faults by identifying and resolving service disruptions and network issues.
• • Address critical outages and restore communication lines promptly.
• • Maintain detailed records of network performance, repairs, and project updates.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• • Minimum 5 years’ experience in telecom, FTTx network design and outside plant construction, both aerial and buried.
• • Working knowledge of rights-of-way, encroachment permits, property rights, and private easements.
• • Experience in permit acquisition with various entities including but not limited to municipalities, PG&E, SCE, Frontier, AT&T, and Caltrans.
• • Familiarity with electrical permits and single line diagrams.
• • Knowledge of locating equipment and 811.
• • Experience utilizing AutoCAD for drafting and knowledge of ArcGIS Pro 3.2, Vetro, Google Earth and Ocalc.
• • Experience with OTDR tests, Light meters and Power meters.
• • Advanced knowledge of MDU design and construction in both Greenfield and Brownfield environment.
• • Excellent Leadership Skills: inspires respect and trust, displays passion and optimism, motivates others to perform; gives recognition and feedback, influences others effectively.
• • Problem Solving: identifies and resolves problems timely; gathers and analyzes information effectively; develops alternative solutions; uses reason when dealing with emotional topics.
• • Communication Skills: speaks and writes clearly and persuasively in positive and negative situations with various stakeholders, including contractors, engineers, and local authorities; responds well to questions, presents effectively in group meetings or settings, ability to read and interpret written information.
• • Interpersonal Skills: focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; maintains confidentiality; listens to others without interrupting; keeps emotions under control; open to others’ ideas.
• • Demonstrated attention to detail.
• • Must have a clean DMV record and the ability to travel as necessary.

Benefits:

• • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with company subsidies
• • Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D
• • Long Term Disability Insurance
• • Flexible Spending Accounts
• • 401K with company contributions, including discretionary Profit-Sharing contributions
• • Holiday, Vacation and Sick paid time off
• • Complementary internet connection

Fresno based unWired Broadband was founded in 2003 with the goal of delivering fast, reliable Internet connections to homes and businesses in rural and underserved areas. Strong demand, fueled by increasing needs for connectivity, have led to 21 years of continuous growth. We currently cover over 19,000 square miles between Corning and the base of the Grapevine. Our 200 tower sites are strategically located to cover the rural and underserved areas that have been ignored by DSL, cable and fiber carriers.

And now, unWired Broadband is bringing the future of connectivity to the San Joaquin Valley: Fiber to the Home (FTTH), Fiber to the MDU, and Fiber to the Business (FTTx). That’s right, you’ll be at the forefront of this exciting revolution, ensuring every corner of the Valley experiences the power of blazing-fast, ultra-reliable fiber internet.