Description
Civils Supervisor (Fibre) - Leinster, Republic of Ireland - 6 months
Exciting new opportunity for a civils supervisor with fibre experience to join a mobile telecommunications company in Leinster in the Republic of Ireland.
The successful candidate will
- work as part of an on-call rota, including night work as part of a 24x7 SLA
- be an on-call supervisor (scheduled as part of the agreed rota) to manage any fibre network maintenance call outs to satisfactory resolution
- liaise with the ASP and agree a programme of work to meet customer deadlines
- supervise and line manage the civils/cabling/splicing gangs to ensure control and management of the 3rd party civils/cabling sub-contractors, on-site
- meet OHS, construction, build quality, productivity and efficiency targets
- manage any welfare requirements of the civils/cabling/splicing gangs
- liaise with local authorities and residents as appropriate to ensure compliance with local requirements prior to and during any construction
- attend any meetings as required, on-site or at the local authorities' premises
- provide technical expertise and be the single point of contact/escalation on all aspects of fibre build and construction; this includes all civils (including re-instatement), cabling and splicing/testing activities, plus production/completion of associated (as-built) documentation within agreed timescales
- manage and track the build/construction team deliverables, ensuring compliance with OHS, contract obligations, and achievement of SLAs and KPIs
- deliver the agreed monthly site audit documentation and implement any corrective action/continuous improvement plans
- provide regular progress updates of individual jobs to the fibre services teams as required
Key Accountabilities include:
- Managing teams on-site to construct high quality FTTX and B2B fibre networks in Ireland; including project/site induction, work schedules and ongoing project communication, such as tool box talks, stand down meetings and OHS requirements
- Providing Real Time point of escalation for field staff and the civils/cabling/splicing gangs to resolve any issues and problems in a timely and professional manner
- Ensuring that the gangs complete work safely and in a timely and professional manner to agreed timescales, project processes and procedures
- Setting up and managing an effective quality control and "right first time" verification process for fibre build/construction by internal and third party teams
- Keeping accurate daily records of works planned and issues encountered
- Measuring completed works with the sub-contractor & to authorise measure sheets
Key Skills include:
- Detailed experience of Irish fixed and cable operator network build guidelines and ways of working, including GPON, FTTX and HFC networks
- Excellent understanding of fibre network architectures and network topologies
- Network build experience in the Irish fibre services industry or civils industry
- Strong knowledge of available passive components applicable to FTTx networks and FTTx deployment technologies
- Extensive experience with civil engineering and telecoms deployment, including Detailed Design and As-Built Engineering
- Extensive experience conducting quality control of fibre engineering build/construction
- Experience of managing OSP civils operatives and cabling/splicing engineers
- Solid understanding of OSP network build key drivers affecting cost in OSP network roll outs
- Being analytical and demonstrating the ability to solve build/construction and/or operations related problems
- Profound understanding of customer challenges within fibre network domain
- Actively building and maintaining a wide contact network with customers, suppliers, Local Authorities/Councils, etc
- Good knowledge of network build from exchange/head end to customer premises
- Good knowledge of private wayleave and customer consents
- Determination and energy, good planning abilities, well-organised
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a wide spectrum of personalities
- Knowledge of the various trench excavation methods, including but not limited to: manual digging, top-cutting, mechanical trenching, narrow trenching, mole-ploughing, directional-drilling
- Good knowledge of backfill & reinstatement materials & their associated approval status
- Good knowledge of the traffic management
- Good knowledge of TMA and permitting/noticing legislations
Please note due to the volume of applications we receive it is unfortunately not always possible to respond to each application.
Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.