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Contract Planning Engineer
Posted: 07/07/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 32078
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: TELE - Telecommunications
Job Description
Job Title: Contract Planning Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Contract Planning Engineer with our client in Charlotte, NC.
Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Contract Planning Engineer with our client in Charlotte, NC.
Job Description:
- The team is looking for a Contract Planning Engineer to support our team! As a Planning Engineer your responsibilities will include managing network elements for voice and data networks and monitoring and evaluating capacity utilization for these networks.
- You will also submit capacity triggers as necessary and forecast and trend bandwidth growth to produce capacity triggers for bandwidth relief.
- In addition, you will develop plans to augment capacity relief as needed. Position requires limited direction and guidance.
Job Responsibilities:
- Main Focus:
- Documentation of GPON & XGS-PON Existing and Planned activity including Visio diagrams
- Secondary Focus:
- Triggering projects utilizing the most feasible, practical and economical means
- Performing engineering work and applied research, development and design of new projects, to include design, fabrication, modification and evaluation of equipment and devices
- Analyzing complex local and wide area network systems and/or customer network environment, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting operating systems and protocol suites and configuring communication media with concentrators, bridges and other devices
- Handling moderately complex engineering assignments
- Resolving difficult interoperability problems to obtain operation across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like
- Support of acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services
- May act as a technical project leader or provide work leadership for lower level employees.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience
- 4+ years of related experience in telecommunications Engineering or Planning (OSP/ISP/Access)
- Ability to communicate fluently with technical individuals from Engineering, Sales and Operations.
- Previous Experience with same organization or Lumen Planning/Engineering Software Systems.
- Edge, Access or OSP Planning experience
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $44-$48 an hour
- Location: Charlotte, NC.
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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