**Job Description:** **This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.** **About the Company:** Join AT&T and help shape the future of communications and technology that connect the world. We value innovators who seek to explore the unknown and challenge the status quo. Bring your bold ideas and fearless spirit to redefine connectivity and transform how people share stories and experiences. At AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future—you’ll build it. Plan, design, and analyze network components and infrastructure for both Wireline and Wireless systems, providing strategic short- and long-term planning, solution recommendations, and implementation to achieve technology goals. **What you’ll do** Typical tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following: + **Network Design and Planning:** Develop network layouts, ensure compliance, conduct feasibility studies, recommend strategic network planning and policy decisions, and evaluate network capacity and performance criteria. + **Cost Estimation and Budgeting:** Prepare cost estimates, monitor expenses, provide financial reports, and create economic deliverables such as Plans of Record, Forecasts, and Utility Agreements. + **Documentation and Reporting:** Maintain documentation, generate reports, develop technical documentation, and create deliverables including Plans of Record, Forecasts, Serving Plans, Use Permits, Handoffs, Workprints, and Utility Agreements. + **Technical Proficiency and Leadership:** Demonstrate sound technical knowledge, mentor peers and new hires, resolve complex problems, provide training, and promote knowledge sharing. + **Implementation and Strategy Development:** Develop and implement strategies to accommodate network growth and change, ensuring alignment with corporate initiatives, customer demand, technology changes, and service reliability criteria. **What you’ll need** + Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired. + 1+ years of related experience. + Certification is required in some areas. **What you’ll bring** + A professional with solid knowledge of fundamental concepts and organizational practices, working on smaller projects. + Exercises judgment in the absence of prescribed guidelines or policies determine appropriate action. + Works under minimal supervision with independent judgement. Actions impact efficiency and costs. + Interacts primarily within the department, across various teams. **Supervisor:** + No **TCP Career Step Differentiator:** + Demonstrates basic to advanced knowledge of engineering roles, design tools, and databases; may include complex designs, process challenges, and database issues. Our Specialist OSP Design Engineer, earns between $63,700 - $95,500. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.  **Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:** + Medical/Dental/Vision coverage  + 401(k) plan  + Tuition reimbursement program  + Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)  + Paid Parental Leave  + Paid Caregiver Leave  + Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected  + Adoption Reimbursement  + Disability Benefits (short term and long term)  + Life and Accidental Death Insurance  + Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal  + Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)  + Extensive employee wellness programs  + Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, + AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone Apply today **Weekly Hours:** 40 **Time Type:** Regular **Location:** Lafayette, Louisiana **Salary Range:** $63,700.00 - $106,100.00 It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made. AT&T will consider for employment qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of federal, state and local laws We expect employees to be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status