Joint Use / OSP Engineering Coordinator

Description

• Maintain accurate and organized documentation including revision records, pertinent correspondence, and construction support.
• Validate routes, bypass logic, underground requirements, easement/access constraints, cross-country leads, and ROW compliance using GIS, Google Earth, client systems, and utility records.
• Support CR preparation, revisions, markups, documentation, and resubmittal sequencing.
• Provide timely, professional communication and polished summaries, recaps, and risk updates for Engineering, Construction, Utilities, Partners and Utility reviewers.
• Maintain internal trackers with exceptional accuracy; reconcile data across SiteTracker and client systems.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings, including utility calls, redline sessions, reroute discussions, kickoff meetings, and CR alignment reviews.
• Ensure compliance with NESC standards, utility requirements, joint-use regulations, and OSP construction practices.
• Support invoice and make-ready reconciliation by verifying pole counts, MR logic, bypass details, and cost alignment.
• Coordinate with Pole Owners on denied poles, riser requirements, overloaded poles, copper downsizing impacts, and make-ready sequencing.
• May lift or carry small parcels, packages, and other items.
• Monitor engineering updates required due to denied poles, conflicts, PLA issues, ownership corrections, or design constraints, ensuring alignment across Engineering, Fielding, Construction, GIS, Utilities, and Municipal agencies.
• Ensure all stakeholders have the most current files, approvals, documentation, and status updates
• Track project milestones, pole counts, route changes, and risk indicators; proactively flag schedule impacts or redesign needs.
• Review workprints, pole lists, aerial/underground OSP designs, and ownership discrepancies to ensure accurate identification of power vs. communication poles and clean routing.
• Prepare, submit, track, and update permit applications with Pole Owners.
• Track JPA/JUN submissions, pole loading (PLA) results, Make-Ready Estimates (MRE) / Make-Ready Analysis(MRA) milestones, permit statuses, Change Requests, and associated workflow sequencing.

Requirements

• Proficiency in CAD applications such as MicroStation and/or AutoCAD.
• Exceptional accuracy, organizational discipline, and data-tracking precision.
• Ability to identify telecom conflicts and present practical, cost-effective solutions.
• 1-3 years of hands-on OSP engineering or OSP coordination experience.
• Comfortable reading and interpreting engineering drawings, utility maps, and highway/civil plans.
• Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the fiber-optic/telecom construction industry.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Detail-oriented, with strong math, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel expertise strongly preferred).
• Self-motivated, tech-savvy, and proactive, with the ability to anticipate needs and follow through on deadlines.
• Familiarity with GIS tools, ESRI platforms, shapefile functions, and utility mapping workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including professional correspondence with utilities and municipalities.
• Requires viewing a computer screen for long periods of time.
• Experience with telecom systems and tools including Infinium, Varasset, M6 (MetaSolv), Control Desk, FROGS, DPI, IQGeo, FTTP fiber records, Katapult, Ike, and SiteTracker.
• Working knowledge of NESC standards, OSP construction practices, and joint-use regulations.
• Understanding of telecom easements, ROW acquisition, permitting processes, and municipal/state requirements (including TXDOT/railroad where applicable).
• Strong working knowledge of OSP aerial infrastructure, pole attachments, and basic make-ready concepts.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance