OSP Engineer – Joint Use

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $32 - $38 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Pearce Services

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Construction • Logistics • Consulting

Pearce Services is a national provider of mission-critical infrastructure engineering, operations, and maintenance solutions. The company designs, commissions, constructs, and maintains telecom networks (wireless, wireline, and fiber), renewable energy assets (commercial and utility-scale solar, wind, energy storage), EV charging networks, and data center/critical facility systems. Backed by CBRE and a large nationwide field workforce, Pearce delivers preventive and predictive maintenance, remote monitoring, rapid-response repairs, HVAC and electrical services, and turnkey uninterrupted power solutions to keep assets online and optimized.

📋 Description

• Support planning, design, coordination, and delivery of outside plant telecommunications projects • Design and support aerial and underground OSP fiber projects, focusing on joint-use and pole-attachment engineering • Prepare, review, and manage joint-use and pole-attachment applications • Review field data, pole information, photographs, measurements, utility records, and existing attachment conditions • Perform or review make-ready engineering and identify pole modifications, transfers, replacements, guying, anchoring, and corrective work • Evaluate telecommunications attachments for compliance with utility standards, NESC requirements, clearance requirements, and customer specifications • Perform or review pole loading analysis and identify structural or clearance issues • Develop and review work prints, construction drawings, route designs, pole details, bills of materials, and supporting documentation • Coordinate with pole owners, electric utilities, telecommunications providers, municipalities, permitting agencies, field teams, construction teams, and other stakeholders • Track applications through submission, review, make-ready, approval, construction, and closeout • Respond to utility comments, rejections, design changes, and requests for information • Coordinate permitting for right-of-way, encroachment, traffic-control, and jurisdictional requirements • Identify utilities, pole ownership, attachment locations, easements, rights-of-way, and construction conflicts • Support fiber route selection and constructability reviews • Review work completed by internal teams, contractors, vendors, or offshore/remote design resources • Maintain project documentation and provide status updates • Resolve discrepancies between field conditions and engineering records • Support redlines, design revisions, as-built documentation, and construction-related changes • Manage multiple work orders and projects against deadlines, service-level agreements, and quality expectations • Assist with quality control and improve joint-use engineering workflows and project delivery

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in OSP engineering, telecommunications engineering, joint use, pole attachments, or a related field • Demonstrated experience with aerial fiber design and pole-attachment projects • Working knowledge of the joint-use application and approval process • Experience with make-ready engineering, including identifying pole modifications and attachment conflicts • Knowledge of NESC requirements, utility standards, pole clearances, guying, anchoring, and telecommunications attachment requirements • Ability to read and interpret OSP construction drawings, utility maps, field notes, pole data, work prints, and engineering specifications • Experience with OSP design and mapping platforms such as AutoCAD, O-Calc Pro, Katapult, IQGeo, ArcGIS, SpatialNet, or similar systems • Familiarity with GIS and utility mapping systems • Experience coordinating with electric utilities, municipalities, permitting agencies, telecommunications providers, and construction teams • Understanding of aerial and underground fiber construction methods • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, applications, and deadlines simultaneously • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to work independently in a remote or distributed-team environment • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate, construction-ready engineering deliverables • Ability to identify engineering or permitting issues and proactively develop solutions • Experience reviewing or performing pole loading analysis is strongly preferred • Familiarity with right-of-way, encroachment, excavation, and traffic-control permits is preferred • Previous experience with telecommunications carriers, fiber providers, electric utilities, or broadband deployment programs is preferred • Experience with ILEC, CLEC, FTTH, FTTx, or broadband expansion projects is preferred • Experience with utility-specific joint-use systems and application portals is preferred • Experience performing pole loading analysis using O-Calc Pro or similar software is preferred • Knowledge of GO 95, NESC, or state/utility-specific joint-use requirements is preferred • Experience supporting high-volume fiber deployment programs is preferred • Associate's or bachelor's degree in a related discipline is preferred; equivalent industry experience may be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance and referral bonuses • Production incentives • Tool/equipment and fuel stipends • Company vehicle • Per diem or other applicable compensation • Health insurance • Life insurance • Medical, dental and vision insurance • Flexible spending accounts • HSA option • Paid vacation • Paid holidays • 401(k) retirement with company match • Tuition reimbursement • Professional development courses/training • Company vehicle, phone, laptop, or tablet as required for the role • Necessary tools and safety equipment • Opportunities for growth • Family-friendly and innovative culture