Cell Site Engineer

About the role

When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career — a place to share your ideas freely, even if they’re daring or different, where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere and always.

Responsibilities

• Perform regular maintenance, keep inventories, conduct audits, and maintain and upgrade cell sites or installations across assigned locations.
• Evaluate network coverage to find gaps, make recommendations to improve coverage, and help implement those recommendations.
• Perform optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of network systems and applications to identify overall system availability and performance.
• Perform triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.
• Generate, drive, and update problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continuously improve business practices.
• Escalate issues to the appropriate internal or external engineer teams for resolution.

Physical requirements

• Climbing stairs and ladders
• Working from elevated areas
• Lifting and carrying objects weighing up to approximately 65 pounds
• Pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting/bending, crawling, squatting, or kneeling in small spaces

Location

Worksite-based role providing cell site support across the Northeast portion of South Dakota and the surrounding area.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience
• Three or more years of relevant experience (demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience)
• Ability to perform physical requirements of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Valid driver’s license
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time
• Ability to report to the designated job site/work location within 45 minutes to one hour of notice to provide rotational on-call coverage
• Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays

Preferred qualifications

• Technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline
• Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and technologies such as Telephony Switching, Data Communications, and Network Routers
• Computer support experience, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations
• Vendor management experience

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week. Rotating shifts including weekends and holidays; on-call coverage with 45 minutes to one hour notice. Travel up to 25%.

Benefits

• Health and wellness options: 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
• Matched 401(k) savings plan
• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year
• Up to 6 personal days per year
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition assistance
• Vacation: newly hired employees receive up to 15 days per year, growing with additional service
• Other incentives as part of award-winning total rewards package

Pay

Salary varies by location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive-based position with potential to earn more. Premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances may apply. For part-time roles, compensation is adjusted to reflect hours.