Network Field Engineer

5 days ago

Merrillville, United States TalentPartners Full time

Job Summary:

The Communication & Control Field Engineer/Specialist will be responsible for various tasks that include engineering analysis and feedback, design review, commissioning, testing, maintenance, and ensuring compliance and cybersecurity requirements concerning our Wide and Field Area Networks, SCADA, and associated equipment.


Principles Duties and Responsibilities

  • This is a FIELD ENGINEER position, Field Engineers spend 90% of their time out in the field (substations, generating stations, road-side equipment cabinets etc.), in various outdoor weather conditions (wind, rain, snow, heat), and carry various tools, test gear, and laptops to perform their work.
  • Communication sites are often within our substations, generation stations, and other customer and Private owned properties. You will be working around High voltage from 765kV to Low voltage systems.
  • Originate and/or review project design drawings and verify field wiring to insure strict adherence to proper communication and control practices and standards.
  • Provide engineering support on site and direct various operating and construction personnel to ensure that all communication and control equipment is installed, tested and operates properly.
  • Perform configuration, acceptance, calibration, functional testing and final operational checks of communication and control equipment.
  • Respond anytime, day or night, to investigate and provide solutions to field or control center problems with communication and control design or equipment problems.
  • Provide technical assistance and engineering services to various departments within the company and to industrial and commercial customers for revenue generation.
  • Conduct communication frequency interference testing for various groups within the company.
  • Document all equipment test data and maintain the most current version of substation communication and control prints, configurations, and other critical data.
  • Keep microwave station logs, perform scheduled inspections and function tests, to verify that equipment operation complies with FCC/FAA/NERC/CIP rules and regulations.
  • Provide training and assistance for various departments inside the corporation.


Communication and Control Equipment Responsibilities

All of our critical traffic is running over private company owned networks, we do not rely on commercial providers or public services. We design, own, and maintain all of our critical path equipment in house.

  • SCADA systems and RTU (remote terminal units)
  • Private 100Gbps+ MPLS Wide Area Network backhaul (200+ nodes)
  • Private Fiber Optics (underground, OPGW, ADSS)
  • Private Microwave backhaul links and radios (2-60Ghz, Aviat, Cambium, Nokia, etc)
  • Private Field Area Network links and radios (point-point and multipoint 0-900Mhz, GE MDS, Sensus, etc)
  • Networking, Routers, Switches
  • Servers and VM’s used to manage our Communication and Control Network
  • Private LTE Network, Radio, Servers, Endpoints, SIM management
  • Private Lattice and Monopole Towers with FAA lighting
  • Various Communication Shelters and outdoor Communication Cabinets
  • AC & DC Power systems

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