Program Manager, Engineering & Construction

Job Description
Brightspeed is looking for a Program Manager to join our team! As Program Manager, Engineering & Construction, you will be managing the daily operations of the outside fiber plant to include engineering, permitting, contracting, designing and maintenance of new building adds and existing fiber facility relocations. This critical role will require you to be responsible for designing and developing complex outside plant (OSP) equipment installations, modifications, and upgrades. Maintaining fiber splice records, networking topography records, fiber mapping, and as-builts in corporate inventory systems. You will also be working closely with other carriers, engineering firms, local/ state agencies and building owners/property owners on new building add-ons and relocations. You will be utilizing a variety of systems for the processing and reporting of work activities, inventory of OSP facilities, documentation of projects and managing various budgets to include but not limited to new construction and route maintenance/protection.
As a Program Manager Engineering & Construction your responsibilities will include:
Maintaining the security of the outside fiber plant (OSP) network, either aerial and/or underground, throughout area of responsibility by managing cable location, by locating contractors and initiating protection activities
Working closely with other carriers, local/ state agencies and building owners/property owners on new building adds and relocations
Working closely with upstream groups, completes fiber verification requests, project estimations, designs, bids, permits and manages construction of new building adds
Monitoring infrastructure builds and reviewing punch lists and approving work that meets industry construction standards
Preparing project timelines, tracking budgets, and providing detailed weekly status reports
Obtaining value added contractors/subcontractors for engineering, permitting and construction of OSP infrastructure
Obtaining and managing contractors for route protection. Maintaining fiber splice records, network topography records, and fiber mapping
Directing emergency restoration and mitigation activities required for the OSP network. This could include fiber optic damage, natural disasters, power failures and other events
Managing contract and/or employee fiber splicers
Providing on the job divisional training to employees and oversees contractors to ensure the proper method and procedures of facility protection and maintenance are followed
Utilizing locating equipment, use of Optical Time Domain Reflectometers (OTDR), and troubleshooting tone generation/reception in field