About Precision Federal
Precision Federal is a small business building AI, data and software systems for government agencies. The company’s founder loves God, and the company is built on Christian faith: every number we publish is real, every claim we make is verifiable, and the work is done with excellence as service to God. Faith is welcome here and openly shared.
How this role works
- Apply with your résumé and your Arizona PE number. We look up the registration ourselves.
- A short email exchange about the work, your independence from carriers and tower companies, and your rate.
- We sign a simple consulting agreement with the title you choose, and the town is notified of you as the engineer on its reviews.
- Each application comes to you with our data checks and shot-clock dates already done, so your hours go to the engineering judgment.
What you'll do
- Review tower, antenna and small-cell applications against the town's wireless ordinance and FCC rules
- Check each applicant's sealed structural analysis against ANSI/TIA-222 and the ordinance's structural requirements
- Check RF-exposure reports against FCC OET Bulletin 65, working from our recomputation of the applicant's numbers
- Review coverage-gap claims and the drive-test and propagation data behind them
- Sign the engineering sections of plain-language memos recommending approval, changes or denial
- Present your findings at Planning and Zoning or Town Council hearings when needed
Required qualifications
- Active Professional Engineer registration in Arizona (electrical, telecommunications or structural)
- Hands-on RF or tower structural engineering: propagation, exposure calculations, or ANSI/TIA-222 analysis
- No current work for wireless carriers, tower developers or installation contractors in the Southwest, and willingness to sign a statement saying so
- Comfort presenting findings at a public hearing
- U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident
- Willing to be named on a federal proposal with a one-page resume, and to sign a short letter of commitment
Preferred qualifications
- Wireless facility reviews you have done for a city, town or county
- Section 6409(a) eligible facilities requests, the FCC small-cell orders and shot-clock rules
- Arizona's small wireless facilities law (A.R.S. 9-591 to 9-599)
- Tools such as Planet, Atoll, EDX SignalPro or RoofView for RF, and tnxTower or RISA for structural analysis
Compensation & structure
This is a part-time 1099 contract on an awarded agreement with an Arizona town, paid hourly from $80 to $150 an hour depending on your experience and discipline. Work arrives as applications are filed, about 140 hours a year in total, most of it remote. Hearings in Fountain Hills are occasional and scheduled ahead.