OSP Engineer III
Location: Boise
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
Mountain Ltd has an opening for an OSP Engineer III working in
the Boise, ID area. Since 1979, Mountain Ltd. has successfully
created and supported turnkey engineering solutions for traditional
and wireless telecom providers across the United States. We are a
national leader in the industry, providing high-quality
engineering, on-time service delivery, and skilled personnel paired
with innovative technology and creative solutions. Specialties
include OSP/ISP engineering, design, permitting, right-of-way and
CAD for traditional and wireless telecommunications companies.
Overview: This individual The OSP Engineer performs detailed
outside plant facility engineering tasks that includes estimating,
analyzing, designing, planning, budget tracking estimates against
actual costs for copper and fiber cables, poles, direct buried and
conduit systems. This position is responsible for preparing and
interpreting engineering plans, drawings and reports; prepare loop
loss design for load and repeater electronics, plan and design
field mounted switch serving areas, perform pole, conduit and
buried facility design measurements to support company and industry
OSP design standards and economic feasibility studies. This
position is responsible for specific job budget development and
tracking. This position is responsible for periodic job inspections
and quality control. Performs duties such as collecting field data,
preparing/organizing permit packages for submittal to the
appropriate entities, maintaining complex files, keeping records,
searching, and investigating information contained in files,
processing departmental documents requiring specific knowledge of
functional operations, posting records including accounting and
continuing property records, typing correspondence and reports from
rough drafts, and assisting engineers as requested. Responsible to
understand and design network elements providing Fiber to the Home,
Copper DSL, Metro-E Ethernet, TDM, Sonet, and fiber solutions. As
such they will be required to interface with multiple groups and
collaborate on intra- and inter-state designs for implementation.
They will be expected to write projects implementing a solution and
have a working knowledge of the equipment used to provide answers
to questions regarding installation and function of the equipment
when being placed in-service. They will also be required to
understand circuit design, functionality of these devices and will
be expected to understand and work in the system used for this
purpose. This position will work with local retail, wholesale, and
municipalities regularly. Qualifications: • Ability to identify
existing voice/data plant, electric, and other utilities on the
site plans as well as in the field • Ability to indicate existing
voice/data plant location and relocate facilities and knowledge of
obtaining right of ways and easements where required • Must have
experience managing other OSP Engineers and reviewing/correcting
their projects • Expert in obtaining right of ways and easements
where required • Must be capable of engineering routine and
specific COE/OSP work orders, including more complex projects
including road moves •Must have expert knowledge of COE/OSP
principles, work order procedures, voice/data industry standards,
PC applications, and COE/OSP record and/or computer aided drafting
systems •Must have own tools such as a measuring wheel, height
stock, pull finder, laptop, etc. •Experience with the local
networks •Ability to perform quality control on engineering work
for other members of the team Experience/Understanding with the
National Electric Safety Code (NESC) for engineering requirements.
Thank you for your interest in Mountain Ltd. For more career
opportunities, please visit us at www.mountainltd.com M4
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