Brightspeed is searching for a Senior Inside Plant (ISP) Engineer to join our team! As Senior ISP Engineer, your primary role will be building our new voice platform supporting fiber voice, SIP-trunking, and circuit emulation technology.  You will develop detailed engineering designs including materials and costing estimates to support and install the new equipment working closely with the high-level plans and outlines prepared by Brightspeed Planning.  You will utilize mechanized tools including: NDS, AutoCAD, IQGeo, JDS, FORTE, WFMT, WMS, ARMOR, TIRKS, and the full suite of Microsoft Office. In this role you will survey, design, and implement ISP plans to support the Converged Services Platform (CSP) initiative.  In addition, you will interact with internal customers, vendors, suppliers and maintain open conversation with planning and all company departments to provide a high-quality platform for Brightspeed customers
As Senior ISP Engineer, your responsibilities will include:     Developing/defining plans for the implementation of new ISP installation or modifications to existing facilities 
    Preparing plans and specifications, to include gathering field data collected through field survey visits sometimes with vendor/contractors
    Assuring that the most feasible, practical, and economical means to complete the work are utilized 
    Providing cost data to support capital planning and budgeting 
    Monitoring and controlling project expenditure 
    Overseeing the installation/construction and testing of plant facilities, meeting the required commitment dates
    Design circuits that interconnect the new platform with the legacy environment; TDM switches, Metro Ethernet devices, etc.
    Resolving interoperability problems to obtain operations across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like 
    Configuring systems to user environments 
    Supporting acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services as needed