Position Title: Manager, Network Planning and Programs
$75,000 to $125,000 annually DOE
Comprehensive health benefits include – medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid time off, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth and education reimbursement programs.
Company Background
Everyone deserves the best internet possible, and that’s the refreshingly great experience we’re creating at Ziply Fiber. We’re bringing fiber to more than one million homes and businesses across the broader Northwest. By pairing brilliantly fast internet with customer choice and control, we’re making it simple and easy for you to connect to the things that matter most to you. Ziply Fiber is based in Kirkland, Washington, providing communities across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana with fiber internet in addition to streaming TV, privacy products, and phone service as well.
Job Summary
The Manager of Network Planning will be responsible for the oversight, planning, budgeting, and project timing for network growth, modernization, consolidation, and advancement needs in a fiber focused business. As a Program Manager, there are additional responsibilities for Vendor oversite and performance management. The Manager ensures effective use of company funds to identify, budget, time, and build a flexible fiber-based network. The Manager is responsible for keeping the team aligned on the optimal network distribution solutions and establishing and managing key team metrics. The Manager will be accountable to effectively creating and managing network build programs related to FTTP.
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.
- Develop both short and long-term market strategies for network investment and evolution to support customer demands
- Drive comprehensive network analysis
- Drive proactive planning that supports sales funnel creation
- Drive optimal project architecture solutions while balancing the customer experience, cost, scalability, and reliability
- Drive implementation of solutions to solve capacity constraints prior to network exhaust
- Support Sales as needed to develop solutions and occasionally work directly with customers
- Drive processes and automation to support LEAN process approaches to solve problems
- Lead overall project costing and support business case development
- Guide partner organizations/suppliers to successfully implement solutions
- Drive network and process advancement
- Provide technical guidance and input on technologies for implementation and consideration
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Communications, Telecommunications, Computer Science desirable
- 5+ years of Telecommunication network experience required
- 2+ years of Managerial experience required
- The qualified candidate will need to have a broad network understanding
- Access networks
- FTTP/FTTN
- BBDLC network
- Ethernet Services
- Feeder/Distribution facilities
- Customer Prem solutions
- MDU/MTU solutions
- SONET
- Wireless
- Transport/Data dependencies
- Outside Plant (OSP) architectures consisting of underground, direct buried, aerial, and building applications.
- In-depth understanding of PON architectures to include centralized and distributed splits greenfield MDU/SFU, and inside wiring solutions
- Network elements associated with FTTP, FTTN, xPON, BDLC, TDM, G.Hn, Broadband services, and Active Ethernet solutions
- CPE solutions
- Database skills desirable but not required
- GIS experience desirable with platforms such as ARC GIS and QGIS
- Understanding of CAD based drawing systems
- Proficiency in common offices tools such as Excel, Work, Powerpoint
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross functionally to achieve positive outcomes
- Operate from a customer centered mindset
- Works well in a team environment driven by partnerships
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction
- Understand LEAN concepts
Work Authorization
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Diverse Workforce / EEO
Ziply Fiber is an equal opportunity employer. Ziply Fiber will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and the presence of a non-job-related handicap or disability or any other legally protected status.
Ziply Fiber requires a pre-employment background check as conditions of employment.
Ziply Fiber may require a pre-employment drug screening. Ziply Fiber is a drug free workplace.
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