Description
As a Fibre Network Planning Manager, you will be a part of highly creative, efficient team tasked with tackling the most fascinating and challenging problems in fibre construction. Planning Managers are always at the forefront of the network construction industry in terms of innovation and maintain a focus to deliver the most innovative products to our customers. Our networks are industry leading in terms of capacity and cost effectiveness
The DM will also be utilized as a leader in their specific discipline (construction management, fibre splicing, OSP Design, ISP Construction or system installation/commissioning) and be responsible as a team member for delivering some of the most complex networks in the world.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Create detailed network planning packs to build scalable and future proof infrastructure.
- Project management and oversight of construction related activities for new builds or general capital projects. This will include the ownership of the project scope, timeline, and budget.
- Ensure construction standards are followed.
- Perform quality audits and ensure issues are remediated before the vendors are released from the project.
- Interface with key internal stakeholders (eg Networking, Data Centre Engineering, PMs, Data Centre Management, security, etc) to obtain their requirements and drive vendors to adhere to these key elements.
- Interface with data centre providers to drive equipment and circuit installations.
- Understand the technical requirements of our engineering teams and ensure the completed project meets these requirements.
- Understand fibre deployment types and insure that diversity requirements that are required are met.
- Deep understanding of the fibre construction process.
- Program management, risk mitigation and reporting status reviews to management and internal customers.
- Handle ad-hoc incoming inquiries and problems to ensure the construction programs continue on schedule
- Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
Essential experience
- The right person will be highly technical and analytical, possess over 5 years of network construction management and/or program management experience in a telecom environment.
- Strong fibre Network planning experience
- Understand the fibre business and have worked on multiple telecom construction programs.
- Strong technical understanding of transport technologies (Fibre, DWDM, etc)
- Excellent attention to detail is essential
- Ability to prioritize multiple competing demands to deliver for the customers in a specific time window.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
ITHR Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. ITHR Group is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.