Senior Planning Engineer

Job Listing ID:

4481819

Job Title:

Senior Planning Engineer Application Deadline:

Open Until Filled

Job Location:

Salem

Date Posted:

04/28/2026

Hours Worked Per Week:

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Either Full or Part Time, more than 6 months You may contact this employer directly. (Obtain the contact information to print or add to your jobs.)

Job Summary:

Lumen is the trusted network for AI. We're transforming how businesses connect, secure, and scale in an AI-driven world. By connecting people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly, we help organizations move faster and unlock what's next. At Lumen, people power progress. Our culture is built on teamwork, trust, and transparency, giving you the flexibility, support, and opportunity to make a lasting impact. We're looking for top-tier talent ready to take on the challenge. Join us in building the future. The Role Manages network elements for voice and data networks and monitors and evaluates capacity utilization for these networks. Submits capacity triggers as necessary. Forecasts and trends bandwidth growth to produce capacity triggers for bandwidth relief. Develops plans to augment capacity relief as needed. The Main Responsibilities Triggers projects utilizing the most feasible, practical and economical means. Performs engineering work and applied research, development and design of new projects, to include design, fabrication, modification and evaluation of equipment and devices. Skilled in planning and/or engineering. Analyzes 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. Must be capable of handling moderately complex engineering assignments. Resolves difficult interoperability problems to obtain operation across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like. Configures systems to user environments. Supports 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. Excludes those with full supervisory responsibilities. Requires limited direction and guidance. What We Look For in a Candidate Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience 6+ years of related experience 4+ years of related experinece with a Master's Degree Compensation This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges:

$82,969

• $110,625 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY. $87,117
• $116,156 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI. $91,266
• $121,688 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process. Learn more about

Lumen's:

Benefits (https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/benefits-statement) Bonus Structure What to Expect Next Based on your job application information you may be given the opportunity to complete a video interview immediately after applying. This will include a set of questions for you to recor...

Job Classification:

Computer Occupations, All Other Access our statewide or regional occupation report for more information about wages, employment outlooks, skills, training programs, related occupations, and more. Compensation

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