Outside Plant Fibre Specialist - Toronto, Canada - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

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Your Impact:


  • Our People & Places Solutions business reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering lifesaving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow._
  • Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed today and into tomorrow._
Jacobs has been at the forefront of creating a new generation of wireless communication infrastructure for over 40 years.

We specialize in network development - complete telecom life cycle solutions, which has ranked us as the #1 Telecommunications Design Firm 2023 in Engineering News-Record.

While the wireless world is ever changing, the demand for innovative technology and long-term support services remains constant. These services include site acquisition, design and construction, to full operations, maintenance, and deconstruction.


Jacobs is seeking an
Outside Plant
Fibre Specialist (Fibre Specialist) experienced in fibre network planning, design, construction and testing for the Province of Ontario's Designated Broadband Projects.

We are looking for a highly motivated and personable individual to support our growing technical assistance team in
Toronto, Ontario, supporting the delivery of large and complex projects including high-speed internet projects.

You will work with a team of professionals in facilitating and providing oversight during procurement design, and construction phases.

The role offers a flexible working environment allowing for remote work and regular visits to client site office in downtown Toronto and our Jacobs Toronto office.


Responsibilities:


The
Fibre Specialist will be responsible for reviewing capacity provisioning, strategic planning and sizing network additions for fibre to the home (FTTH) projects.


Specific duties may include, but not limited to:

Third Party Design Oversight

  • Perform quality audits on designs and review for completeness, accuracy, client standards, and overall presentation.
  • Monitor and evaluate design quality and scheduled delivery as defined by the Project Manager.
  • Evaluate design for "value" engineering improvements.
  • Ensure designs conform to local jurisdiction regulations, as required
  • Communicate lessons learned to the Project Manager and the project team.

Planning

  • Anticipate and plan for capacity requirements in backhaul and last mile networks.
  • Perform shortterm and longterm network forecasting (OLT, CSP, feeder, distribution)
  • Interpret service provider forecast data and utilize in planning/design.
  • Interpret latest service provider architecture and standards as pertains to planning and design
  • Plan for serviceondemand in market areas

Detailed Design Review

  • Analyze collected data of all surface features and underground utility data necessary to support the preparation of design prints that are complete and suitable for construction of a project.
  • Coordinate with crossfunctional teams in support of bringing each design to completion
  • Responsible for the review of detailed construction drawings depicting all underground and above ground elements and proposed work.
  • Review for accuracy detailed field notes, drafting, and validating cable routes, splice plans and network element placement and interfaces.
  • Oversee the review of detailed engineering drawing packages prepared for rightofway access and road cut permits from municipalities.
  • Interpret OTDR traces, loss measurements and link budget for circuit acceptance.
  • Use GIS mapping tools to ,.gdb and other GIS files

Here's what you'll need:


  • Experienced in the design of aerial and underground facilities, with ability to interpret telecom facilities on records, maps and fielding notes
  • Ten (10) years OSP engineering design with 3 years specific in OSP planning required
  • Experience working with CAD and GIS platforms.
  • Degree in Engineering or equivalent work history/experience, Licensed Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario preferred
  • Knowledge of layout and design of the telecommunication network elements in accordance with the network design criteria for FTTx builds. This includes an understanding of the development and definition of the optimum route corridor and identifying the type of construction required (i.e., aerial, underground, open trench, direction bore, plough, etc.)
  • Experience working with CAD and GIS platforms.
  • Firm understanding of rightofway and route assessments to confirm that a route corridor is acceptable and will be built in the most costeffective manner.
  • Familiarit

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