Planning Engineer

Role Overview

The Senior Planning Engineer will provide technical planning support, process improvement, and cross-functional coordination for physical network infrastructure. This role focuses on forecasting material requirements, optimizing material utilization, monitoring network growth, developing baseline forecasts, and supporting short-, mid-, and long-term network deployment planning.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and coordination skills, experience with large-scale network projects, and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and planning support for network infrastructure projects.
• Monitor and evaluate material utilization to improve efficiency and optimize resources.
• Forecast network growth and material requirements to establish standard baselines.
• Develop short-, mid-, and long-term material usage forecasts.
• Identify trends and analyze data to support infrastructure planning and deployment.
• Develop and maintain aggregation reports, dashboards, and reporting views in collaboration with partner teams.
• Coordinate planning activities across cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Implement standard processes and triggers to support network deployment requirements.
• Build strong working relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partner organizations.
• Manage moderately complex assignments independently once familiar with the processes.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of related professional experience.
• Experience in Network Architecture, Network Infrastructure, and/or Network Implementation.
• Experience supporting large-scale projects.
• Strong cross-functional coordination and vendor management skills.
• Experience with planning, forecasting, material utilization, or resource optimization.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement abilities.
• Ability to manage moderately complex assignments and work independently.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with telecommunications or network infrastructure deployment.
• Material planning, utilization forecasting, and demand planning experience.
• Experience developing baseline forecasts, trend analyses, and aggregation reports.
• Experience coordinating multi-team infrastructure projects.
• Strong reporting and data analysis skills.

Additional Notes

• This is a remote, US-based opportunity with an onshore requirement.
• Standard schedule is 40 hours per week.
• No travel is anticipated.

Candidates should be comfortable coordinating with multiple teams and vendors on large-scale network infrastructure initiatives.

Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Experience:

• telecommunications or network infrastructure deployment: 5 years (Required)
• supporting large-scale network projects: 5 years (Required)
• material utilization, or resource optimization: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote