Cell Site Engineer

About the role

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 make it even better.

Responsibilities

• Performing optimization, troubleshooting, and maintaining base station equipment, RF transmitters, and Fiber network.
• Testing the fiber network and integrating network hardware to bring new products on-air and enhance customer experience.
• Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations.
• Conducting routine, preventative maintenance on assigned cell sites to identify potential issues during general site inspections.
• Complying with the company- and industry-wide standard directives to maintain network performance and enhance efficiency.

Requirements

• 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.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.
• Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Qualifications

• Technical degree in Electronics or Telecommunications.
• Experience in troubleshooting antenna systems from transmitter to antenna using tools like a spectrum analyzer.
• Experience in PIM/VSWR/MIMO/RET, including knowledge of fiber and LTE remote radio heads.
• Experience in electronics training in telecommunications, two-way radio, paging, or microwave radio.
• Experience in data communications, digital communications, operating systems, applications, computer support, scripting, project management, or power.
• Experience in Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, or Ericsson, base station equipment with LTE or CDMA technology.
• Experience in telecom experiences such as T1, DACS, or OMP.
• Experience in dark and lit fiber testing using equipment such as OTDR, and fiberscope.
• Experience in computer support, including troubleshooting PC hardware and configurations.
• Experience in power experiences such as Galaxy, Lorain, or DC distribution systems.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of network infrastructure and telecommunications technologies.

Benefits

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.