# Telecommunication Engineer - Technical Director **Company**: WSP **Location**: Boise, ID **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $89,600/yr - $147,800/yr **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/98539?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_007d1d31-f3e ## Description WSP is seeking a Telecommunications Engineer – Technical Director for their Boise, ID office, with potential for additional locations or remote arrangements. As a senior role, you will provide technical and project leadership for telecommunications infrastructure and systems serving utility and industrial/commercial clients throughout the United States. **Your Impact** - Provide proactive technical and project leadership for telecommunications engineering work, helping teams deliver complex projects. - Lead telecommunications infrastructure and system design for conventional, renewable, and distributed generation facilities, substations, transmission and distribution systems, and microgrids. - Specify equipment and oversee procurement, installation, testing, and provisioning documentation for outside-plant fiber-optic cable, fiber terminals, microwave radios, field area networks, multiplexers, network switches, and related equipment. - Lead the design and configuration of fiber-optic, microwave radio, PDH, TDM, OTN, and SONET networks. - Lead the design for IP, Ethernet, MPLS, and data communications networks. - Review and interpret OTDR reports. - Use Pathloss or similar tools to design and verify microwave radio links. - Oversee circuit channelization on TDM networks and evaluate the security, reliability, availability, latency, synchronization, and resiliency of packet-based networks. - Specify telecommunications carrier services, including leased-line services, and lead coordination of technical requirements with service providers. - Lead the design and configuration of network and communications paths for SCADA equipment, and downstream data users. - Apply experience with telecommunications and networking platforms from vendors such as Fujitsu, RFL/Hubbell, GE, SEL, Aviat, Nokia, Cisco, and Siemens RUGGEDCOM. - Lead site surveys, field investigations, commissioning, and troubleshooting of communications systems; occasional travel is required. - Lead technical reviews and confirm that designs, specifications, test plans, and deliverables comply with applicable codes, standards, regulations, client requirements, and QA/QC procedures. - Develop and review project scopes, schedules, budgets, pricing inputs, and technical proposals; monitor delivery performance and support successful commercial outcomes. - Lead technical aspects of client meetings, presentations, contract discussions, and coordination with multidisciplinary project teams. - Maintain and expand client relationships, identify follow-on opportunities, and support the growth and pipeline of telecommunications and SCADA work. - Mentor and supervise project team members and support their technical and professional development. - Remain current with telecommunications engineering practices, technologies, and compliance requirements, and promote innovation across project work. **Who You Are** **Required Qualifications** - 12+ years of relevant telecommunications engineering industry experience supporting utility, industrial, or commercial facilities. - Advanced experience designing telecommunications infrastructure and communications systems for substations, generation facilities, transmission and distribution systems, or similar critical infrastructure. - Experience leading complex engineering projects and coordinating scopes, schedules, budgets, technical deliverables, and multidisciplinary contributors. - Ability to work independently and provide technical guidance, leadership, mentoring, and supervision to project team members. - Advanced ability to prepare and review specifications, network designs, provisioning documentation, installation plans, test plans, technical reports, and commissioning documentation. - Strong knowledge of network topologies, latency, synchronization, circuit channelization, security, reliability, availability, and resiliency. - Excellent leadership, client-service, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills for effectively working with clients, regulators, management, and technical teams. - Strong analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and decision-making skills, with attention to detail and the ability to prioritize responsibilities in a dynamic project environment. - Experience maintaining and improving client relationships and supporting customer-focused technical and commercial performance. - Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies. - Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs. - Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, or a related engineering discipline. - Professional Engineer (PE) license, equivalent professional credential, or eligibility to obtain licensure. - Solid understanding of radio-path engineering, including propagation, antennas, Fresnel zones, link-budget calculations, k-factor, and rain effects. - Familiarity with FCC and FAA requirements related to licensing microwave radio links. - Working knowledge of WECC, FERC, and NERC compliance requirements pertaining to electronic communications. - Applicable licenses or certifications, to include, PMP, CISSP, TIA, or based on vendors; Nokia, Cisco, Juniper, HPE, Extreme, Fortinet, F5 or other. - Proven history of completing similar projects in a utility and/or consulting environment. - Strong experience managing the review and approval of technical documents, discipline-specific deliverables, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment. **Benefits:** WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. **Compensation:** Expected Salary (all locations): $89,600/yr - $147,800/yr Expected Salary (Colorado only): $100,800/yr - $166,400/yr ## Skills ### Required - telecommunications engineering - network design - project leadership - client relationships - team supervision ### Nice to have - Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering - Professional Engineer (PE) license - radio-path engineering - FCC and FAA requirements - WECC, FERC, and NERC compliance --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/98539?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)