Engineer, Senior Communications

Primary Location

USA-Texas-Houston

What you will be doing

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems. The partnership’s assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

Implement and support leading technologies as a member of Enterprise Products’ IT team. Gain valuable experience with exposure to challenging and dynamic projects in all aspects of our business. Join our highly experienced network of professionals and connect with our creative team.

The Senior Communications Engineer will be providing the design for and project managing various systems into the overall Enterprise Products communications infrastructure. This will include designing and implementing systems that integrate with wireless, voice, SCADA, badge access, satellite, microwave, CCTV, and data networks. In addition, managing contract personnel that may be deployed for certain projects. The management of communications projects and interfacing with many third-party vendors and contractors to complete those projects will be a common duty. This individual will also be responsible for the ultimate quality control of the deployed systems. With responsibilities to include

- Design communications solutions involving the integration of the above-mentioned technologies.

- Interface with customers to gather appropriate details for communications designs.

- Project management of the deployment of communications designs.

- Interface with external contractors during project deployments and system problem resolutions.

- Maintain the budgets for communications projects being managed.

- Provide upper-level technical support for the field communications technicians.

- Research new technologies that could be utilized as communications solutions.

- Provide technical input on communications contracts and agreements.

- Provide FCC and FAA administration for Communications assets.

- Generate technology standards documents.

- Technical support for internal field technicians on trouble resolutions.

- 50% travel.

What Your Background Should Look Like (minimum Qualifications)

The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications

- A Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Telecommunications Engineering is required.

- A PMP certification is preferred.

- A FCC license and network certification (CCNA) is a plus.

- 7 years of experience in 3 or more of the following technologies wireless, voice, SCADA, badge access, satellite, microwave, CCTV, and data networks is required.

- Experience in the design and integration of communications systems and the associated project management of those designs is required.

- Applicant should be able to effectively utilize Visio or CAD for system diagrams.

- Experience with communications path profile software is preferred in addition to the utilization of the FCC ULS web site.

- The ability to communicate effectively while working with internal and external customers.

- Should be able to manage multiple communications projects while also fielding requests and support from various sources.

- The ability to work with minimum supervision and be self-motivated is required.

- Should be able to lift moderate weight and have the ability to kneel, bend and twist while installing or testing project deployments.

- Depending on the project, travel to the offshore environment may be a requirement.

Shift

Day Job

Travel

Yes, 50 % of the Time

Unposting Date

Ongoing

Organization

Info Tech

Job

Information Technology

Job Level

Individual Contributor