OSP Engineering Planner

Company Overview

ASG strives for customer satisfaction. Our core values of Honesty, Integrity, and Respect are our guiding principles and provide the framework for everything we do. As one of New Jersey’s most successful telecommunications service companies, ASG plans, designs, builds, and services the world’s ICT infrastructures to create a more sustainable and connected society. We offer unique solutions to complex infrastructure projects and comprehensive right of way, engineering, and construction services targeted to the public sector and telecom industry.

ASG is dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. We strive to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered. Our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace.

Job Purpose: The OSP Engineering Planner is responsible for creating project designs, estimating costs, identifying appropriate materials and equipment, creating drawings, and estimating project timelines for the placement of fiber optic cables, copper cables, poles, conduit, transmission equipment, and associated electronics.

• Perform field engineering of proposed projects to provide optimum routing alternatives while ensuring the most cost-effective designs are developed for construction projects
• Provide suggested cable routings, drop, house, or unit count, and proposed pedestal locations
• Provide field investigation using aerial, buried, and underground designs and construction methods such as conduit, manholes, hand holes, etc.
• Provide legible drawings in acceptable formats depicting the pickup locations and proposed routings developed from the field visit
• Present estimated costs to provide service on assigned projects
• Attend on-site meetings with applicable parties to explain the proposed design, construction procedure, and cable routing
• Perform field verifications of existing plants to provide accurate pick-up points for new plant extensions
• Obtain street addresses and unit count information to ensure records and databases remain current
• Coordinate with appropriate departments to engineer plant extensions, and collaborate with contractors to verify existing conduits and plants
• Research system plant maps to determine system extension effects on surrounding cable plant and node placement sizing
• Perform small system preliminary extension design for high-priority projects when necessary
• Performs other duties as assigned, which are reasonably within the scope of the responsibilities of this job classification