What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cell Site Engineer position at Verizon and Careers?
When you join Verizon
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What you’ll be doing...
As a Cell Site Engineer, you’ll be out in the field keeping our facilities and equipment in top form by maintaining several locations in your assigned area. You’ll be doing regular maintenance, keeping inventories, doing audits, and maintaining and upgrading cell sites or installations. You’ll also be evaluating our network coverage and finding ways to improve it.
Performing optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of network systems and applications to identify overall system availability and performance.
Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations.
Performing triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.
Generating, driving, and updating problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continuously improving business practices.
Escalating issues to the appropriate internal/external engineer teams for resolution.
Physical requirements of the job may include, but are not limited to, climbing stairs and ladders, working from elevated areas, lifting and carrying objects weighing up to approximately 65 pounds, pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting/bending, and crawling, squatting, or kneeling in small spaces.
Where you’ll be working:
In this worksite-based role, you will provide cell site support across the Southwest Kansas territory and the surrounding area.
What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:
Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
Ability to perform physical requirements of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.
Valid driver’s license.
Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
A technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and technologies like Telephony Switching, Data Communications, and Network Routers.
Computer support experience, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.
Vendor management experience.
Experience in PIM/VSWR/MIMO/RET, including knowledge of fiber and LTE remote radio heads.
Electronics training in telecommunications, two-way radio, paging, or microwave radio.
Training in data communications, digital communications, operating systems and applications, computer support, scripting, project management, or power.
Experience with Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, or Ericsson, base station equipment with LTE or CDMA technology.
Telecom experience, such as T1, DACS, or OMP.
Knowledge of scripting and configuration of routers and switches.
Experience with dark and lit fiber testing using equipment such as OTDR and fiberscope.
Power experience such as Galaxy, Lorain, or DC distribution systems.
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.
Where you’ll be working
In this worksite-based role, you'll work onsite at a defined location(s).Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Equal Employment Opportunity
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.
Benefits and Compensation
Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.
The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.