Verizon Communications

Cell Site Engineer

Verizon Communications$74K — $122K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate’s degree or 2+ years of experience in a related field.
  • 3+ years of relevant field experience, including military.
  • Ability to meet physical job requirements, with or without accommodation.
  • Valid driver’s license for travel responsibilities.
  • Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.
  • Ability to respond to job site within 45-60 minutes when on-call.
  • Openness to rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain network systems for performance improvement.
  • Evaluate network coverage, identify gaps, and recommend enhancements.
  • Perform triage and fault isolation of network issues.
  • Generate and update problem-tracking tickets in multiple systems.
  • Escalate issues to internal/external engineering teams for resolution.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness options including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Short and long-term disability and life insurance offerings.
  • 401(k) matching plan and up to 8 paid holidays annually.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance programs.
  • Tuition assistance and opportunities for career development.
  • Generous vacation policy starting at 15 days per year, increasing with service.
Full Job Description
What you’ll be doing...

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.

  • Performing optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of network systems and applications to identify overall system availability and performance.

  • Evaluating network coverage to find gaps, making recommendations to improve coverage, and helping to implement those recommendations.

  • Performing triage, fault isolation, and remediation of network events.

  • Generating, driving, and updating problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continuously improving business practices.

  • Escalating issues to the appropriate internal/external engineer teams for resolution.

Physical requirements of the job may include, but are not limited to: 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.

Where you’ll be working:


In this worksite-based role, you will provide cell site support across the Cincinnati Zone 1 territory and the surrounding area.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

  • 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

  • Ability to report to the designated job site/work location within 45 minutes to one hour of notice to provide rotational on-call coverage for the Manhattan territory.

  • Willingness to work rotating shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

  • A 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 training 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.

  • 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.

  • Power experiences such as Galaxy, Lorain, or DC distribution systems.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working
In this worksite-based role, you'll work onsite at a defined location(s).

Scheduled Weekly Hours
40

Benefits and Compensation

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. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $74,500.00 - $122,000.00.

About Verizon Communications

MCIS delivers wireless links, turn-key systems, broadband leases, and system maintenance.

Verizon Communications Careers

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Size
118,400 employees
Market Cap
$164.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+1.2%
Revenue
$128.2 billion
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