Sr Specialist OSP Design Engineer

**Job Description:** Plan, design, and analyze network components and infrastructure for both Wireline and Wireless systems, providing strategic short- and long-term planning, solution recommendations, and implementation to achieve technology goals. **Key Roles and Responsibilities:** Typical tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following: - **Network Design and Planning:** Develop network layouts, ensure compliance, conduct feasibility studies, recommend strategic network planning and policy decisions, and evaluate network capacity and performance criteria. - **Cost Estimation and Budgeting:** Prepare cost estimates, monitor expenses, provide financial reports, and create economic deliverables such as Plans of Record, Forecasts, and Utility Agreements. - **Documentation and Reporting:** Maintain documentation, generate reports, develop technical documentation, and create deliverables including Plans of Record, Forecasts, Serving Plans, Use Permits, Handoffs, Workprints, and Utility Agreements. - **Technical Proficiency and Leadership:** Demonstrate sound technical knowledge, mentor peers and new hires, resolve complex problems, provide training, and promote knowledge sharing. - **Implementation and Strategy Development:** Develop and implement strategies to accommodate network growth and change, ensuring alignment with corporate initiatives, customer demand, technology changes, and service reliability criteria. **Job Contribution:** An experienced professional with in-depth knowledge, applying organizational practices to resolve moderately difficult problems. Works with independent judgement on expansive projects with minimal supervision, implementing policy changes to improve functions. Actions impact efficiency costs, schedules and client relationships. Interacts primarily within the department and with General Managers and above across various teams. **Supervisor:** No **TCP Career Step Differentiator:** Demonstrates intermediate to advanced knowledge of engineering roles, design tools, and databases; exhibits leadership skills and mentors' peers and new hires. **Education/Experience:** Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) desired. 2+ years of related experience. Certification is required in some areas. **Weekly Hours:** 40 **Time Type:** Regular **Location:** Hoover, Alabama **Salary Range:** $70,100.00 - $116,800.00 It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made. AT&T will consider for employment qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of federal, state and local laws We expect employees to be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status