Project Manager Engineering & Construction

Company Description

At Brightspeed, we are reimagining how people live, work, play and connect by providing fast, reliable internet connections and an awesome customer experience in twenty states throughout the Midwest and South.

Backed by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, our vision is to accelerate the upgrade of copper to fiber optic technologies, bringing faster and more reliable internet service to many rural markets traditionally underserved by broadband providers, while delivering best-in-class customer experience.  

Be a part of the team that will make this vision a reality….designing and building a world class fiber network and creating a customer experience second to none.

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Job Description

Brightspeed has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Engineering & Construction Centralized Support Team.  As an Project Manager, you will document successful and support the timely and complete delivery of numerous milestones of complex off-net 3rd party network solutions which affords BSPD the ability to be more agile and responsive to its High-end clients’ by delivering cutting edge NG solutions for their Business needs and all off-net design solutions for BSPD’s internal Converged Services Platform (CSP), such as Fiber Voice, SIP Trunking, Metro Interconnect and TDM/DCS consolidation.  The Analyst II is a key player and coordinator who is part of a larger cross-functional team environment that includes: delegates of the NetEx Steering committee, Finance, Sales Engineering, PM’s, Planning, Engineering, Construction, Service Delivery & Assurance and Field Operations.  This role requires strong business acumen, the ability to define and implement groundbreaking ideas, to work within a fast-moving environment and to rapidly deliver support and services that have a broad business impact.  The position will report to the Manager of Engineering & Construction.

As the Support Analyst your responsibilities will include:

• Drive on time delivery of engineering projects and orders in a high volume and fast paced environment.
• Provides technical direction related to engineering projects and service orders; from quote to design to implementation and finally billing.
• Ability to interpret Engineering Design Prints and Facility Records.
• Root Cause analysis and interpretation of KPI’s for continual optimization of cost and process.
• Track and drive Vendor quality and performance.
• Define and maintain Build Types ensuring projects are sized correctly and target completion dates are attainable
• Analyzes data to identify root causes and makes recommendations for performance improvement.
• Develop the project delivery schedule which includes identification and logical sequencing of activities needed to complete deliverables and to identify critical paths.  Identify risks and mitigation plans.
• Communicate project plans, project status and issues to stakeholders
• Utilize various project management tools (MS Project, Smartsheets, Power Apps, etc.) 

Qualifications

WHAT IT TAKES TO CATCH OUR EYE: 

• 3+ years Telecommunications experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and related experience
• Experience with Telcom Network Design systems (IQGeo, GIS, SmallWorld)
• Ability to work in network facility & inventory systems
• Project Management experience
• Highly organized and data driven
• Ability to work successfully in both a team environment and independently
• Root cause analysis and process mapping experience
• Skilled with Teams, MS SharePoint, MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel

Bonus Points for

• Project Management certification
• 7+ years Telecommunications experience
• Lean and/or Six Sigma experience or certification
• Application specific experience
  • IQGeo, GIS, NDS, Fireworks, Bidmaster, WFMT, FT3, CDMMS, ARMOR, E2, Sitetracker, Salesforce, MARTENS, Optius/Oden, Service Now

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Additional Information

WHY JOIN US?

We aspire to contemporary ways of working.

We are committed to being a leader in defining a new way to work because we recognize the changing mindset of today's workforce. We are opening a new, state-of-the-art corporate HQ in Charlotte, NC and our current priority is to make it a truly vibrant destination by hiring talent in the greater Charlotte area who are interested in a hybrid remote/office work arrangement. As always, however, we are also open to providing sensible remote options to talent outside of the Charlotte area. Why? Because our purpose is to reimagine how people work, learn, pla