Telecommunications Infrastructure Designer - Military Veterans

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

 

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

 

We are committed to a diverse and equitable workforce with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, experiences, and perspectives. This is essential to innovation and creativity for continued success of the Laboratory's mission.

 

Pay Range

 

$113,790 - $141,276 Yearly at the 337.1 level

 

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We have an opening for a Telecommunications Infrastructure Designer who will work independently and under minimal supervision to design/engineer telecommunications building and OSP backbone service requirements for LLNL. You will be responsible for inter-building and intra-building infrastructure design including pathways, riser, and horizontal cabling, cabling and termination hardware, bonding/grounding, distribution facilities, and environmental equipment. The position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division within the Computing Directorate, in support of LivIT.

 

In this role you will

 

• Evaluate requests for telecommunications services and provide appropriate cost estimates based on Industry and LLNL's Best Practices & Standards.
• Provide telecommunications engineering and design, inclusive of all classified and unclassified copper, fiber optic, and structure for Inside Plant (ISP), Outside Plant (OSP), wireless, cellular cabling, telecommunication demarcation rooms (BDF/IDFs), cable distribution, splicing, termination, grounding/bonding, equipment racks, cable management and distribution raceways.
• Perform long range planning and maintain the Laboratory's Outside Plant (OSP) distribution system, including quantities, types and routing of all cable and infrastructure placement and maintaining records/documentation using drawings and department databases.
• Ensure all Safety and Technical Standards are met, understood, and followed by technicians and contractors and frequently make independent decisions regarding complex to highly complex technical problems concerning telecommunications infrastructure.
• Establish and modify guidelines, techniques, and procedures to choose appropriate work methods, set work priorities and assemble/prepare work packages for technicians.
• Produce detailed conceptual designs for structured telecommunications cabling systems that include computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) and all necessary information for development in the field construction.
• Represent the laboratory, interacting with outside agencies and vendors to develop infrastructure standards and specifications.
• Rapidly produce complex budgetary project estimates based on customer requirements for inter and intra-building telecommunications services.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in electronics, mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, computer engineering or electro-optic technology or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience developing a scope of work for clients' telecommunications technology requirements based on applicable codes, standards, and best practices.
• Advanced knowledge and significant experience with all phases of inside building plant design, installation, and maintenance including cabling systems and telecommunication space electrical.
• Advanced understanding of the technical, physical, and safety requirements required for developing design plans, preparing drawings, and writing specifications for outside plant facilities.
• Ability to work independently at an advanced technical level without daily technical supervision and manage complex telecommunications projects.
• Advanced interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently and interact with a multi-disciplinary staff in a team environment.

 

Qualifications We Desire

 

• BICSI RCDD Credential or equivalent certifications.
• Knowledge of AutoCAD (computer-aided drafting).
• Knowledge of the LLNL telecommunications infrastructure, physical plant layout, security requirements, service order systems, and procedures and documentation systems.

Additional Information

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Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.

Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

• Included in 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity
• Our core beliefs - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/our-values
• Employee engagement - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/employee-engagement

Security Clearance

This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.

Pre-Employment Drug Test

External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.

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