Meter engineer vs outside plant engineer

Differences between meter engineer and outside plant engineer duties and responsibilities

Meter engineer example responsibilities.

• Promote from original position as a staff engineer managing a variety of geotechnical engineering activities to a field engineer inspector position.
• Analyze malfunctions and equipment failures of various network operating systems such as servers, gateways and routers used in radio communications systems
• Design, prototyping, and production of test equipment/suites for company design telecommunications equipment.
• Implement special test configuration to support debugging efforts in resolving an anomaly in the satellite's communications system.

Outside plant engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage many key projects providing DS1, DS3 and SONET facilities for customers.
• Train new techs on how to pull, repair and manage new and existing copper and fiber cabling systems.
• Manage and provide training to a multicultural maintenance team using TPM principles and following standards such as AIB and BRC.
• Determine and upgrade MDF and IDF layout in communications cabinets.
• Cost estimates, design packages, GIS design, site walks and quality control.
• Install new copper and fiber optic infrastructure to facilitate network expansion.
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