# Lead Distribution Systems Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,744 - $126,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Lead Distribution Systems Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and supervise OSP/ISP, fiber optic, and communication closet engineers and technicians, ensuring coordinated and integrated engineering across all disciplines

- Manage Agency and Subcontractor labor, including daily direction, quality assurance, performance oversight, and conflict resolution

- Serve as primary engineering liaison to Government POCs and base stakeholders

- Coordinate base access, security requirements, installation schedules, materials, and personnel deployment

- Validate engineering deliverables including drawings, design inputs, reports, and risk assessments

- Lead design reviews, planning sessions, and strategic decision-making for DS workstreams

- Identify and mitigate engineering risks, design conflicts, and installation challenges

- Support program leadership with execution planning, reporting, and stakeholder engagement

- Maintain expert-level knowledge of AF/SF standards, TIA/EA, UFC, I3A, OSP/ISP, CEL requirements, and fiber technologies

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years in telecommunications engineering, network infrastructure, OSP/ISP design, or related disciplines

- 5+ years leading multi-discipline engineering teams in field or deployment environments

- Experience delivering large-scale communications modernization projects for DoW, federal, or large enterprise environment

- Experience managing subcontractor labor and agency field teams

- Familiarity with AF/SF installation processes, base coordination, and engineering standards

- Strong background in OSP construction, fiber design/testing, and telecommunications room infrastructure

- Hiring/Working location will be remote but will require approximately 75%-100% travel.

- Working location will be on onsite supporting the daily implementation efforts at Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks Alaska.

- This work will be for 7+ months with potential opportunities for movement onto other initiatives upon completion.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience leading on-site teams performing AFNET, DISA, or DoW network infrastructure/modernization programs

**Certifications:**

- BICSI OSP (Outside Plant Designer)

- FOA CFOT (Fiber Optic Technician)

- OSHA 30 or equivalent safety certification

- Security+ CE (DoW requirement for base network environments)

- Clearance: Active Secret clearance.

**Benefits:**

- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

## Skills

### Required
- Distribution Systems
- Engineering
- Leadership
- Telecommunications Engineering
- Network Infrastructure
- OSP/ISP Design

### Nice to have
- AFNET
- DISA
- DoW network infrastructure
- BICSI OSP
- FOA CFOT
- OSHA 30
- Security+ CE

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