HFC Design Engineer

Woodbury, NY – Onsite 3 days per week following initial 90-day 100% onsite training period

Company Overview:

This company is a leading internet and cable services provider on the East Coast.

Position Overview:

Responsible for all engineering/construction design projects involving our design contractors. Establish and manage a QC program including the contractors, internal desktop survey group, and our construction teams. Work with the engineering team to keep our Spatialnet GIS database accurate and be involved in corrections and efficiencies for current and future projects. Responsible of working with our software vendors to discuss, review and implement any product enhancements, upgrades or other corrections as needed. To use our mapping database tools to complete any of our design projects, with a basic understanding of the specifications for each project type.

Position Responsibilities:

• Quality Control oversight for our mapping and design projects, including network extensions, relocations, maintenance, and all different design projects.
• Ongoing coordination with in-house and contractor resources to complete network “As-Builts” based on plant verification documented by field personnel.
• Manage the in-house and design contractor’s projects through our Metasolv and construction portal.
• Look to resolve issues within the different design software and make recommendations to manage navigations through each software and between our design and construction tools.
• Work with the Engineering team to develop new tools and improve our end-user viewing software to increase production and feedback for improvements to our network database.
• Help coordinate our ongoing effort to transfer our design to AI (Artificial Intelligence) through the use of NetVersant. Expand this to New Build, Power, Optical, and High Split designs.
• Develop querying and scripting to provide GIS definition of network locations for marketing.
• Analytic support for Commercial and Business cost estimating activity.

Position Requirements:

• 2+ years of demonstrated proficiency within GIS systems; understanding of basic mapping and cartographic concepts, mapping symbols and standards, GIS concepts, research methods, and database design principles.
• Extensive knowledge of the cable industry and understanding of HFC design job types as well as AutoCAD, Oracle, and network performance issues required.
• Oracle Database structure in terms of storage, queries, and reporting.

Nice to have/Desired:

• Knowledge of Spatialinfo, Metasolv, ARC GIS, or other GIS database software and hardware would be a bonus.