Optical Engineer

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

My Client is currently looking for two highly motivated Optical Installation and Commissioning Engineer to join our team in Europe. If you want to be a part of our growing company that is driven by innovation and is focused on building a future together with our employees, consider applying.

Principle duties and essential functions

  • Installation and Commissioning of Ciena 6500 equipment, DWDM and Ethernet and associated racks and cabling at customer locations.
  • Commissioning to include configuration of equipment, establishing DCN for network management, full functional testing, acceptance testing and completing client handover documentation.
  • BERT testing and troubleshooting
  • Fault Finding and problem diagnosis, preparing reports and feedback to Ciena Technical Services, Engineering and Operations.
  • Provide onsite technical support when required, working solely or under direction from Technical Services.
  • Role requires full mobility and will require weekend and out of hours work.
  • Supervise or work with Ciena Service Partners when required.

Other tasks and responsibilities

  • Assist with staging of equipment throughout UK and Europe
  • Running and labelling circuits ready for migration and then migrating
  • Provide training of installers
  • Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Experience

  • Installation and Commissioning of Ciena DWDM and Telecommunications Equipment preferably for a Carrier
  • Installation and Commissioning of Ethernet equipment
  • Working in a carrier exchange or Telehouse environment
  • Working with DC Power
  • Handling Fibre Optics
  • Working with DCNs
  • Dealing with customers
  • Knowledge of sub-sea cable systems and RAMAN amplifier setup

Skills

  • Sound optical engineering skills
  • Good communications skills

Knowledge

  • A good understanding of Optical transmission, Ciena 6500 DWDM systems including ROADM and Optical amplifiers
  • Optical path testing loss and dispersion measurement
  • Ethernet including VLANs
  • Ethernet testing and certification
  • Fibre channel
  • IP and SNMP
  • Power supplies AC and DC
  • Safe Installation Practices
  • Good general understanding of telecommunications

Education

  • BEng/HND in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications or equivalent relevant qualification
  • 5-10 years of field service deployments for Telecommunication carriers.
  • Safecontractor or equivalent Health & Safety training
  • Engineer must be fluent in English and able to speak German is also preferential.

Licenses or certifications

  • Due to the nature of the role, successful candidates must be willing to undergo a basic Security check
  • Full driving license
  • Basic toolkits, laptop, mobile phone and vehicle to be provided by engineer.

Physical demands

  • Involves manual handling

Scope of employment

  • 1 year contract

Primary location of job

  • Flexible within the UK and Europe
  • 85% travel expected.

Compensation

  • 12 month contract rate
Start date
n.a
From
Templeton and Partners
Published at
12.02.2020
Project ID:
1891513
Contract type
Freelance
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