Required Skills: Must be able to operate test gear to complete such tasks
Job Description
Title – Cable Engineer
Job location –Plano, TX onsite
Job type – Contract to Hire
Rate - 70 hr c2h
Description:
• Candidate must have solid and demonstrated experience in developing solutions aligned to business requirements that utilize department’s standards, product sets, templates, systems and artifacts.
• Communicate structured cabling standards to partners, stakeholders and lines of business. Participate in project-related interviews and discovery with lines of business and other technology design team members. Translate business requirements into functional technology requirements.
• Must adhere to design standards and global design authority processes and procedures; computer skills and the use of various business applications and productivity tools such as AutoCad, MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio are a must.
• Ability to liaise with 3rd parties and provide representation in developing optimum solutions and ratifying designs.
• Experience in hierarchical network design strategies (i.e. WAN, CORE, AGGREATION, etc.) is required.
• Interfaces with GC, MEP Engineering and Architectural firms.
• Oversee Communications Construction Management (CCM), cabling contractor activities, providing direction to address site-specific construction issues.
• Participate in all aspects of the infrastructure acceptance process. Provide support to technology project managers during adoption of the new infrastructure.
• Must provide quality assurance throughout the entire, end to end project lifecycle. Is responsible for the quality of the service outputs of his/her work.
• The ability to assemble professional documents based on existing templates, ability to provide accurate job descriptions with needed hours for completion. Must create budgets and estimates. Must understand project delivery lifecycle management, the concept of Detailed Design, Test and Certification methodologies, Risk Assessment/Mitigation and Validation plans and procedures.
• Must maintain and adhere to department policies in conjunction with the service delivery function (asset tracking, inventories, chargeback, documentation and the related systems, tools and processes).
• The candidate must have excellent client interfacing skills, strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management. Candidate should have experience operating with colleagues across different time zones with a flexible approach to working hours (ability to work varied hours and weekends a must) to successfully interact and communicate on a global level.
• Varied experience in multi-vendor solutions (various infrastructure systems and manufacturers, primarily Corning and CommScope) is required.
• Knowledge of Audio Visual and Security infrastructure cabling, systems and distribution is a plus.
• Must be able to participate in and establish technical testing criteria to industry bets practices. Must be able to operate test gear to complete such tasks.