Telecommunication Engineer - Technical Director
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Boise, ID, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 12+ years of relevant telecommunications engineering industry experience supporting utility, industrial, or commercial facilities.
- Advanced experience designing telecommunications infrastructure and communications systems for substations, generation facilities, transmission and distribution systems, or similar critical infrastruc
- Experience leading complex engineering projects and coordinating scopes, schedules, budgets, technical deliverables, and multidisciplinary contributors.
- Ability to work independently and provide technical guidance, leadership, mentoring, and supervision to project team members.
- Advanced ability to prepare and review specifications, network designs, provisioning documentation, installation plans, test plans, technical reports, and commissioning documentation.
- Strong knowledge of network topologies, latency, synchronization, circuit channelization, security, reliability, availability, and resiliency.
- Excellent leadership, client-service, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills for effectively working with clients, regulators, management, and technical teams.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and decision-making skills, with attention to detail and the ability to prioritize responsibilities in a dynamic project environment.
- Experience maintaining and improving client relationships and supporting customer-focused technical and commercial performance.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license, equivalent professional credential, or eligibility to obtain licensure.
- Solid understanding of radio-path engineering, including propagation, antennas, Fresnel zones, link-budget calculations, k-factor, and rain effects.
- Familiarity with FCC and FAA requirements related to licensing microwave radio links.
- Working knowledge of WECC, FERC, and NERC compliance requirements pertaining to electronic communications.
- Applicable licenses or certifications, to include, PMP, CISSP, TIA, or based on vendors; Nokia, Cisco, Juniper, HPE, Extreme, Fortinet, F5 or other.
- Proven history of completing similar projects in a utility and/or consulting environment.
- Strong experience managing the review and approval of technical documents, discipline-specific deliverables, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment.
Full description
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Telecommunications Engineer – Technical Director for our Boise, ID office. Additional WSP office locations and remote arrangements may be considered based on business needs. Be involved in projects with our Electrical Studies, SCADA, and Protection (ESSP) and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.
WSP brings global expertise in power delivery, power generation, and program management- anchored by the acquisition of POWER Engineers, Inc. TRC Companies have now joined WSP, deepening our power practice and expanding our energy advisory and intelligent grid services. We're partnering with clients to shape how energy systems evolve around the world—and we need your help.
This senior role provides technical and project leadership for telecommunications infrastructure and systems serving utility and industrial/commercial clients throughout the United States. The successful candidate will lead project delivery, maintain and improve client relationships, and mentor and supervise team members assigned to projects.
Your Impact
- Provide proactive technical and project leadership for telecommunications engineering work, helping teams successfully deliver complex utility and industrial/commercial projects.
- Lead telecommunications infrastructure and system design for conventional, renewable, and distributed generation facilities, substations, transmission and distribution systems, and microgrids.
- Specify equipment and oversee procurement, installation, testing, and provisioning documentation for outside-plant fiber-optic cable, fiber terminals, microwave radios, field area networks, multiplexers, network switches, and related equipment.
- Lead the design and configuration of fiber-optic, microwave radio, PDH, TDM,OTN and SONET networks.
- Lead the design for IP, Ethernet, MPLS and data communications networks.
- Review and interpret OTDR reports.
- Use Pathloss or similar tools to design and verify microwave radio links.
- Oversee circuit channelization on TDM networks and evaluate the security, reliability, availability, latency, synchronization, and resiliency of packet-based networks.
- Specify telecommunications carrier services, including leased-line services, and lead coordination of technical requirements with service providers.
- Lead the design and configuration of network and communications paths for SCADA equipment, and downstream data users.
- Apply experience with telecommunications and networking platforms from vendors such as Fujitsu, RFL/Hubbell, GE, SEL, Aviat, Nokia, Cisco, and Siemens RUGGEDCOM.