Lead Telecommunications Engineer
Sargent & Lundy
- San Juan, PR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Engage in fast-paced utility client projects to plan, engineer & design communications solutions to address operational requirements & emerging trends including Smart Grid, Distribution Automation and Smart Metering
- Perform radio path studies including path profiles, propagation analysis, link power budgets, coverage studies
- Recommend, coordinate and assist in licensing and permitting efforts
- Develop network architecture designs based on TDM, SONET, IP / MPLS and other relevant standards
- Prepare network and channel diagrams and perform timing studies
- Design fail safe systems with path & equipment redundancies & diversity to serve mission-critical operations with extreme reliability
- Ensure strict adherence to NERC standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
- Stage, configure & test integrated systems designs, for interoperability & performance consistent with predictive models in our Protection, Automation & Telecommunication Laboratory
- Specify requirements and provide cost estimates for ancillary support systems including radio towers, outside (fiber) cable plant (typically OPGW & ADSS), DC power, grounding, fiber splice cases & distribution panels, shelters and outdoor enclosures, etc.
- Coordinate and provide guidance to other engineers, project managers, client personnel, and suppliers to ensure a complete and timely design.
- Develop your career via peer-learning through sharing of knowledge with other experienced engineers by way of Sargent & Lundy’s systems of process and associated “Communities of Practice.”
- Provide guidance as a mentor in the development of less experienced engineers.
- There is the potential for you to travel to client and vendor offices as needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications, or Computer Systems Engineering
- 10 or more years of relevant experience working directly with an electric utility or an electric utility consulting company
- Familiar with time-division multiplexing (TDM) hierarchy, digital cross-connect switches, channel banks, SONET, IP, ethernet & serial interfaces, wiring/cabling methods, DC power systems, radio towers, electrical substations, link power budgets, path profiles
- Proficiency with MS Office applications.
- Ability & willingness to travel up to 20%
- Must be fully bilingual in Spanish and English.
- Professional Engineering (P.E.) License
- Master of Science degree in Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications, or Computer Systems Engineering
- Experience using radio propagation modeling tools such as EDX Signal Pro & Pathloss
- Electric utility systems experience, knowledgeable regarding System Protection, ECS / EMS / SCADA / DA and AMI / AMR
- Well versed in use of MS Project & Visio
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Familiar with NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards & Cyber-Security
- CISSP certification
- Network design credentials, applied knowledge of IP / MPLS