Our team works hard, takes pride in the quality of work we produce while enjoying each other’s comradery. The team, our designs and the end results we produce are trusted by our peers. We have an opening in our engineering department for an individual who can tackle a wide range of duties that include, but not limited to, designing network architecture, building and maintaining the organization’s datacenter and voice networks and running projects. This position will work closely with others on the Communications team, as well as developing cross-departmental alliances that will teach you anything you want and/or may need to know in order to be successful.
For this position experience and skill are important but we’re also looking for a great addition to the team and its dynamic. It’s important to us that personalities mesh well. We know that having a healthy work environment is key the ingredient to enjoying the work you do every day and cultivating an ongoing passion for your career.
LES is a company that values passion, high personal standards, excellent service for the environment, and the community in which we live. If our values match yours than LES may be the right fit for your career! This is not a remote position and requires residency within reasonable commuting distance to LES in Lincoln, Nebraska daily.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Engineer ($75,050 - $93,812) - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job. Internship preferred
Engineer III ($86,309 - $ 107,886) - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or related field, and at least three years of progressively responsible engineering experience in area of assignment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.
Senior Engineer ($99,254 - $124,067) - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or related field, and at least six years of progressively responsible engineering experience in area of assignment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.
CORE COMPETENCIES & ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Provides engineering support including analysis, design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of telecommunication systems, private networks, and technical services for both IT and OT environments. Specific duties include designing and leading medium to large scale projects with minimal guidance, supervising consulting services, lead to lower-level staff, material selection, bid evaluations, preparation of feasibility studies, and creating/updating specifications for associated telecommunication equipment. Assists with technical training and serves as subject matter expert to lower-level staff. Acts as on-call Engineer as assigned outside normal working hours. Consistent and reliable attendance is required.
Maintains the planning, design, analysis, construction, commissioning, integration, installation, operation, and optimization of telecommunication systems and networks.
Leads small to medium scale projects throughout the lifecycle of the project for data center networks, campus networks, DMZ networks, external networks, transport networks, fiber optic networks, radio networks, network security, DAS system, Wireless system, and VoIP systems.
Implements new telecommunication schemes, network schemes and proposed system changes to determine their effect on existing systems.
Implements engineering standards, standard materials, specifications, policies, procedures and guidelines for LES systems and applications.
Updates design prints for the OT networks and Visio designs for the IT networks.
Assists with conducting network modeling and analysis to construct a reliable, high-performance integrated network.
Assists with troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving network problems
Customer Focus – The successful candidate puts customers, both internal and external, at the center of business decisions in order to identify and respond to current and future customer needs. Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
Initiative – Seeking a candidate that takes action on their own without being prompted; handles problems independently; able to resolve issues without relying on extensive help from others; does more than is expected or asked.
Teamwork – The ideal candidate has the skill to effectively interact, cooperate, collaborate, and manage conflicts with other people. Shows enthusiasm toward being a member of the group; actively participates in team meetings and activities; leverages the skills and interests of coworkers to achieve goals and solve problems; supports team decisions.
Safety Awareness - The individual respects and complies with safety procedures/standards necessary to ensure a safe and healthful work environment; scans the environment for things that may pose a safety risk; and encourages others to utilize safe and healthy work practices.
Job Technical Skills - A person in this role will keep their technical skills current; effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with their job; shares technical expertise with others.
