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Director, Outside Plant and Engineering
Ziply FiberUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Nov 2025
💰 $190,116/yr($145,000/yr – $190,116/yr)
About the role
Position Title: Director, Outside Plant & Engineering
Base Salary: $145,000 to $190,116 annually DOE
Bonus: Target annual bonus
Comprehensive Health Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick
leave and paid time off, parental leave, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth and
education reimbursement programs.
At Ziply Fiber, our mission is to elevate the connected lives of our communities every day. We are
delivering the fastest home internet in the Northwest, with a focus on areas traditionally underserved by
mainstream internet companies. And as our state-of-the-art fiber network expands in WA, OR, ID and MT,
so does our need for team members who can help us grow and realize our goals.
We may be building internet, but we are reaching real people. We strive to build relationships and provide
customers and communities with refreshingly great experiences.
We emphasize our values in all our interactions:
Genuinely Caring: Our customers and colleagues are people, and quite possibly our neighbors. We put
ourselves in their shoes and give them our full attention.
Empowering You: We empower our customers to choose the products that best meet their needs, and
we support our employees to implement solutions that elevate the experiences of our customers and
coworkers.
Innovation and Improvement: We always look for ways to make the experiences of our customers –
and each other – better.
Earning Your Trust: We earn trust by communicating simply and transparently as real people, not as a
corporation.
Job Summary
The Director of Outside Plant & Engineering leads teams responsible for designing and building scalable,
cost-effective fiber networks, ensuring all designs meet technical and regulatory standards. This role
oversees the entire engineering design process, manages internal teams and external partners, and
drives innovation and operational excellence. The Director is accountable for delivering high-quality,
construction-ready designs and maintaining accurate OSP records to support Ziply Fiber’s mission of
expanding state-of-the-art fiber networks. Strategic leadership, vendor management, and expertise in
fiber network engineering is essential for enabling large-scale deployment and long-term network
sustainability.
The position is to be in either Kirkland, Washington or Everett, Washington.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee
and not intended to reflect all duties performed.
• Provide the end-to-end program direction to organize, develop, and execute a program build
across multiple functional teams.
• Develop and execute the fiber engineering design strategy in alignment with business expansion
and network deployment goals.
• Oversee end-to-end design processes, including route planning, permitting, and compliance with
federal, state, and local regulations.
• Ensure designs are optimized for scalability, cost efficiency, construct-ability, and long-term
maintainability.
• Establish and enforce engineering design standards, documentation practices, and quality control
measures, and oversee adherence to industry best practices and evolving standards in fiber
network engineering.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineering managers, designers, and support staff to deliver high-quality
network designs on schedule.
• Manage relationships with external engineering vendors, contractors, and consultants, ensuring
alignment with company standards and
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