Full-Time

Outside Plant Engineer 3

Updated on 9/3/2026

Pearce Services

Pearce Services

1,001-5,000 employees

Maintains critical telecom and energy infrastructure

Compensation Overview

$34 - $36/hr

+ Performance bonus + Referral bonus + Production incentives + Tool/equipment stipend + Fuel stipend + Company vehicle + Per diem

Montana, USA

In Person

Category
Electrical Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Forecasting
Quality Assurance (QA)

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Requirements
  • Proven leadership delivering complex, multi-discipline outside plant engineering projects from design through permit, construction readiness, and closeout.
  • Expertise in work order engineering, including road moves, loss budgets, splicing plans, constructability, and value engineering.
  • Hands-on field measurement experience and deep working knowledge of National Electrical Safety Code and client and industry outside plant standards.
  • A track record obtaining permits and rights-of-way or easements and leading pole attachment, loading, and make-ready coordination.
  • Experience building and tracking job budgets and performing structured quality assurance and quality control and site inspections.
  • Proficiency with personal computer applications and record or computer-aided design systems.
  • Ability to use a measuring wheel, height stick, pull finder, and laptop in the field.
Responsibilities
  • Own engineering scope for multi-site and complex outside plant builds involving fiber and copper, aerial and underground construction, pole lines, direct-buried systems, and conduit.
  • Produce and seal, where applicable, engineering plans, splicing diagrams, loss budgets, bills of materials, and construction work prints.
  • Perform advanced loop-loss and electronics sizing and plan field-mounted switches serving areas and network segmentation.
  • Lead constructability reviews, value engineering, and route optimization and resolve clearance, capacity, and alignment conflicts.
  • Direct and perform field surveys involving pole, conduit, and buried-facility measurements and verify National Electrical Safety Code clearances and make-ready needs.
  • Ensure compliance with National Electrical Safety Code, client specifications, and Pearce standards and conduct feasibility and economic analyses.
  • Author redlines and as-builts and drive corrective actions from field quality assurance findings to closure.
  • Oversee complete municipal, county, and state permit packages and coordinate rights-of-way and easements through approval.
  • Lead joint-use engineering involving pole attachments, loading, and make-ready and coordinate with investor-owned, cooperative, and municipal utilities.
  • Interface with agencies and utilities to resolve conflicts, accelerate approvals, and reduce schedule risk.
  • Build job budgets and forecasts, track actuals, changes, and variance drivers, and recommend cost and schedule mitigations.
  • Establish project key performance indicators, including cycle time, rework rate, and punch-list aging, and run continuous-improvement actions.
  • Conduct periodic site inspections and formal quality assurance and quality control gates from design release through closeout.
  • Maintain authoritative records, including designs, permits, rights-of-way, accounting and property records, and as-builts.
  • Prepare executive-ready reports and status dashboards and keep internal and client systems current.
  • Partner with project managers, construction, permitting, and vendors to align milestones and dependencies and lead technical touchpoints.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Outside Plant Engineers I and II, designers, and permit staff.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience mentoring or leading engineering teams and vendors and setting technical best practices and standard operating procedures.
  • Familiarity with drafting, markup, and documentation tools, including computer-aided design platforms, markup utilities, and client portals.
  • Ability to translate technical constraints into clear decisions for stakeholders.

Pearce Services maintains and engineers mission-critical telecom and renewable energy infrastructure across the United States, with 24/7 service for tower maintenance, repair, and EV charging equipment maintenance delivered by directly employed technician crews under service contracts or project-based engagements. It provides tailored maintenance and engineering solutions, operating around the clock to minimize downtime by using skilled field crews and proprietary logistics and quality tools to plan, execute, and monitor work. Differentiators include nationwide directly employed crews, a broad service scope (tower maintenance, repair, EV charging maintenance), and a safety-focused approach supported by proprietary technology. The goal is to ensure reliable, high-availability infrastructure for telecom and renewable energy clients through comprehensive, safe, and responsive maintenance and engineering services.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$1.2B

Headquarters

Paso Robles, California

Founded

1998

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • CBRE projects Pearce revenue above $660 million and EBITDA above $90 million in 2026.
  • Pearce keeps buying assets, including JoeMax Telecom in April 2025 and Unified Power in December 2024.
  • Demand rises for grid batteries, telecom uptime, and EV charging maintenance across Pearce's end markets.

What critics are saying

  • Worldleaks claimed a March 20, 2026 ransomware attack, risking customer trust and contracts.
  • CBRE integration creates churn risk through 2026 as Pearce loses stand-alone operating independence.
  • The 2027 earn-out pressures management to hit thresholds while cyber damage and integration distract teams.

What makes Pearce Services unique

  • CBRE bought Pearce on November 4, 2025 for $1.2 billion cash.
  • Pearce runs 24/7 field crews across telecom, renewable energy, data center, and EV charging.
  • Its 4,000-plus employees support UPS, BESS, cooling, and power uptime nationwide.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Development Budget

Performance Bonus

Employee Referral Bonus

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

21%

1 year growth

21%

2 year growth

36%
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Mar 21st, 2026
Worldleaks ransomware attack targets Pearce Services.

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