Description
Responsibilities:- Develops large-scale corporate wide projects, focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors, stakeholders etc.
- Assembles multi disciplinary project team.
- Manages project budget, schedule and resource allocation.
- Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of complex projects for systems that typically affect many users.
- Interacts regularly with existing or potential clients to determine their needs and to develop plans for improving delivery of products and services.
- Functions as the central point of communication/coordination between end-user requests and BT infrastructure, equipment and services.
- Serves as BT lead on larger engineering and facility project teams. Ability to work within a large, cross-functional project team is essential.
- Works closely with Facility and Engineering project management on a site or project basis.
- Advocates and represents clients' needs and requirements to sponsors and stakeholders.
- Identifies, develops, and initiates innovative solutions.
- Operates cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes.
- Analyzes decisions and actions in support of long-term strategic initiatives.
- Demonstrates superior collaboration skills and techniques which appropriately define alternate solutions; resolve conflicts; and create lasting, productive partnerships with clients
- Searches and secures collaborative resources.
- Presents oral and written reports defining plans, problems, and resolutions to appropriate levels of management.
- Develops and maintains enterprise communication cabling standards.
- Develops and maintains the Build of Design standards for telecom rooms.
- Writes RFP for communication cabling and security cabling.
- Provides consultative services to group for communication cabling and IT related issues.
- Represents group as a technical liaison with BT and BTI to ensure that BT and BTI initiatives support the group/client requirements.
- Represents group in construction meetings to ensure that technical specifications for communication cabling, power and cooling for the telecom rooms.
- Single point of contact for carrier services facilities:
- Uses internal resources to reduce costs by leveraging existing BT inventory
- Assesses site closures inventory for re useable inventory based on upcoming projects
- Assesses proposed lease sites for cabling standards and associated BT costs
Skills
- Must have ability to read and interpret drawings and be proficient in interacting with tradespersons.
- Knowledge of industry data communication standards and policies and ability to learn/adapt policies for same.
- Knowledge of industry power and cooling standards and ability to learn/adapt company policies for same.
- Extensive Industry standard knowledge in the following areas:
- WAN/LAN/WLAN/Voice (Cisco-centric)
- Communication cabling/Fiber Optics
- Telecommunications - IPT/TDM
- Data network architecture and design
- MTR/IDF Communication Room design and space planning
- Carrier service offerings
- Local TV service offerings
- AV cabling
- Server and application migration/decommissioning/recommissioning experience a plus
- Overall Project Coordination for network & voice service areas.
- Manage remote engineers and deliverables for designs for Service Delivery
- Coordinates the network engineering resources activities, time card tracking, overall milestone completion and project billing
- Orchestrates the activities and deliverables required by the network & voice services resources- tracking necessary milestones, actions, issues, etc.
- Provides daily direction and oversight to local project coordinators responsible for projects within the project portfolio
- Consolidates individual BTI work stream updates and inputs into a comprehensive project view (including, but not limited to milestone tracking, actions, accomplishments, issues, status)
- Conduct recurring meetings (daily or weekly as needed) to brief stakeholders on project progress
- Support relationships with key upstream IT delivery organizations (WAN, LAN, WLAN, IP and TDM telephony services, etc.)
- Support service quality metrics.
- Flexible with travel as required
- Utilizes a network of relationships to collect and disseminate information, build support, and secure buy-in for desired objectives.
- Demonstrates superior interpersonal, conflict resolution, and negotiating skills. In addition, candidate must have strong communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
- Regularly makes decisions and takes independent action on matters directly affecting strategic goals.
- Establishes and cultivates essential relationships both within and outside company
- Acts decisively in critical situations and proactively circumvents potential problems.
- Possesses a basic knowledge of general financial and accounting principles.
- A 4 year college degree in an IT related field, and 15 years of industrial IT experience in critical business environments are required.
- Leadership qualities are essential. Candidate must be proficient in leading diverse project teams, including:
o technical, operational and management personnel
o outsourced technical contractors and suppliers
o Designers
o Trade contractors
o Suppliers
o Others as needed - Candidate must be capable of navigating within an outsourced delivery model and delivering projects within established budget and schedule.
- Candidate must display initiative, inquire as required to maintain project progress, and be capable of managing by influence.