Our client in Knoxville is seeking a Network Planner for a 3 month contract. The Network Planner is responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and forecasting facilities for the region. Negotiating, tracking Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interconnects and communication facilities. Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities: * Review and determine potential points of interconnections providing cost benefit analysis * Analyze network topology and compare with PSTN tariffs and/or products optimizing for cost and service levels provided to * Analyze traffic patterns, toll costs, and network routing configurations to develop Least Cost Routing and direct changes to Switch Engineers as required * Forecast facility requirements including interconnections, voice trunking, data circuitry and Base Station connectivity to support required capacity service margins Network Planner Qualifications: * 3-5 years experience in telecommunications preferably with PSTN or Cellular service provider * Understanding of routing, and switching * Industry experience in traffic engineering, facility management & forecasting, Least cost routing (LCR) Experience in 3D Cellular a MUST * Experience with multiple network modeling tools is a plus