NHS Human Services, Inc.

Location: Vancouver, Washington Type: Contract Job #7722 Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Electronics Engineer role will offer professional engineering support to project managers and other engineers. This position will help implement management-approved projects, assist field maintenance crews, and contribute to other engineering activities. This includes facilitating engineering tasks, design, and implementation throughout assigned projects. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay Rate: $50.03 - $71.48 Benefits: Paid holidays: 11 PTO: Starting at 10 days Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) EAP: Employee Assistance Program Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%) Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks Responsibilities: Draft telecommunications decisions to lease or share operational circuits on communications systems. Work within a team to draft Communications/Control Planning (C&C) plans-of-service (PoS) for reimbursable study agreements. Study agreements may include requests by other utilities and organizations and for capital related projects. Work with the Power System Planning group to identify the required telecommunications elements and document the minimum C&C requirements to fulfill project requirements. Draft and recommend C&C PoS packages for communications circuits and telecom paths to fulfill requirements of communications, control, and relaying requirements for existing and new sites; this may include travel to remote locations to verify feasibility of C&C PoS. Document PoS on Project Requirements Diagrams (PRDs) website. Draft back-of envelope (BoE) estimates Draft the C&C portion of the Study Report Using draft PRD documents create and submit Estimate Requests (ERs) for review and approval. Draft telecommunications decisions to lease or share operational circuits on communications systems for review and signature by the Supervisor of Communication/Control Planning. Using planning tools such as Pathloss and TCIS, provide analysis of Microwave paths, SONET configurations; results are used to create PoS packages. Communicate technical information verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical users. Provide project / task updates (oral or written) as requested by the Manager of Communications and Grid Modeling and/or Supervisor of Communications/Control Planning. Requirements: A Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering or other closely-related Engineering field is required. 10+ years of experience in the Electric Utility sector with an emphasis on C&C Planning, Electronic Design, Communications Maintenance, Technical Operations or related field is required. 5+ years of experience with the following: Experience developing plans-of-service for communication, control and data systems used to operate and control the power grid at large Electric Utilities. Experience in developing cost estimates for communication items. Experience in metering and telemetry requirements as related to interchange projects. Experience disseminating technical information in writing and orally. Experience in planning digital radio systems and long-haul fiber optic systems, preferably SONET systems. Developing communications/control plans in conjunction with fulfilling transmission service. Experience developing options, evaluating, and providing a preferred plan for meeting communications/control system functional requirements. Working knowledge of transmission and operational telecommunications systems Knowledge