Crown Castle
Network Planner (Information Technology)
Position Title: Network Planner (p4)
Company Summary
Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure: towers, small cells and fiber. It all works together to meet unprecedented demand—connecting people and communities and transforming the way we do business. Whenever you make a call, track a workout or stream music and videos, we're the ones providing the communications infrastructure that makes it all possible. From 5G and the internet of things to drones, autonomous vehicles and AR/VR, we enable the technologies that help people stay safe, connected and ready for the future. Crown Castle is a Fortune 500 company, publicly traded on the S&P 500, and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the US, with an enterprise value of ~$100B.
Role
Responsible for managing all aspects of fiber route design, network capacity management, and long-range network planning for an assigned area within a Crown Castle Fiber region. Works with Network Planning and Engineering to ensure network designs meet all established standards. Responsible for interfacing with other organizations to establish standards and best practices for capacity management of optical fiber cable, conduits, and passive network systems that extend the useful life of inside and outside plant assets. Leads network design and planning in collaboration with fiber construction teams on proposed large-scale fiber network projects. Establishes design solutions for network expansion and large or complex customer network designs. Collects and analyzes network capacity data to forecast fiber capacity exhaustion and initiates projects to proactively address capacity constraints. Utilize data to initiate projects to overbuild networks, optimize fiber routes, and/or address densification of metro services according to established network architecture standards. Develop business cases and projects to address forecasted capacity constraints to meet customer demand. This position will work cross functionally within a matrix organizational structure to achieve implementation goals in conjunction with RF Engineering, Fiber Engineering & Operations, Regulatory, Finance Product Development and Supply Chain Management.
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Organizational Relationship
Reports to: Manager Fiber Engineering
Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable): N/A
Additional Information: Crown Castle has a COVID-19 Vaccine Policy in place requiring vaccination by your employment start date, unless approved for an accommodation or otherwise prohibited by law.