OSP Engineer

About Us 

Fatbeam, headquartered in Coeur d’Alene Idaho, is a business-to-business provider of fiber-based network solutions to enterprise, healthcare, government, and education customers.  Fatbeam’s network includes over 1,250 fiber route miles operating in eight western states.   

At Fatbeam, we differentiate ourselves by offering dark or lit fiber-based solutions with speeds up to 400 Gbps. Combined with a growing product portfolio to address our customers’ IT infrastructure needs, we bring a customer centric and service-oriented approach to doing business. With robust capital resources, we are ready and able to build the fiber-based infrastructure our customers need in the markets we serve. We believe in crafting solutions with customer input and then delivering the solutions that meet their needs now and in the future. 

In short, we are driven, passionate, responsive and, most importantly, flexible. 

Position Summary 

The OSP Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the OSP Engineering function across all markets. This role ensures high-quality, constructable, and scalable network designs aligned with company growth objectives. The OSP Engineering Manager drives accountability for design accuracy, timeliness, and standards compliance while building a high-performing engineering team. The position serves as the bridge between Engineering, Construction, and Leadership to ensure designs support predictable, efficient field execution. This role reports directly to the VP of OSP Construction.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead and develop the OSP Engineering team, ensuring a high-performing, accountable group delivering quality, constructable designs.

· Establish clear performance expectations, accountability standards, and development plans.

· Build a culture of ownership, design discipline, and continuous improvement.

· Maintain visibility into all active design workloads, timelines, and resource capacity.

· Ensure designs meet company standards for quality, constructability, and cost efficiency.

· Drive accountability for engineering schedules aligned to construction targets.

· Review and improve design accuracy to reduce field rework and change orders.

· Escalate systemic design risks, capacity constraints, and quality gaps to leadership.

· Establish and maintain standardized engineering processes, documentation standards, and QA/QC controls.

· Identify and eliminate recurring design bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

· Define measurable KPIs for engineering throughput, quality, and predictability.

· Resolve cross-functional conflicts that impact schedule, cost, or design integrity.

· Provide leadership visibility into design pipeline health and future capacity needs.

Education and/or Experience, Certificates, Licenses Registrations 

· 5+ years of progressive experience in OSP engineering, project management, and leading teams in the telecom industry

· In-depth knowledge of telecommunications construction practices, including both underground and aerial fiber deployment.

· Familiarity with industry standards and utility/pole attachment regulations, such as NESC, ANSI, and relevant pole attachment standards.

· Experience building and maintaining relationships with permitting authorities, municipalities, and utility entities.

· Proven ability to oversee complex design projects, ensuring constructability, cost efficiency, and alignment with operational goals.

· Strong technical judgment, with the ability to balance design accuracy, field execution efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

· Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.

· Full-time salaried position; flexibility to work extended hours as needed.

Compensation and Benefits 

Fatbeam offers market competitive total compensation packages that consists of base pay, incentive compensation for many positions, equity based long term incentive compensation and a full array of robust benefits including health insurance, FSA/HSA accounts, 401K retirement plans, paid leave, and other benefits. 
Above all, we offer a rewarding and performance-oriented culture where our employees feel valued and are part of a great team. 

Additional information 

Fatbeam requires a background check and the acceptance of a basic non-compete documents for all employees.  The background check takes 3-5 days. This offer would be pending upon the results of the background check. We will also need to confirm that your driving record will not prohibit us from adding you to our insurance policy for company vehicles. Lastly, to protect our intellectual property, confidential information, and client relationships, it is our policy to require that employees execute an Employee Conduct Agreement governing these matters. Your execution of this agreement is also a condition of this offer of employment. Your employment with Fatbeam is "at will", which means that you have the right to leave your employment with us at any time while Fatbeam also reserves the right to end the employment relationship at any time. 

Fatbeam is an EEO employer.