Career Opportunities: Manager Network Implementation (334517)

The Role

The Manager Network Implementation is accountable for leading the engineering and construction efforts for Enterprise network and customers. Strong leadership and collaboration skills are required as this position is responsible for the results from multiple organizations in both direct and indirect reporting structures. Reports to the Director Network Implementation and works independently on day-to-day operations managing a team that may consist of Network Specialists, Engineers, and Network Implementation Program Managers.

Location

Ideally, this role would be Hybrid with the Houston, TX location, but we are willing to consider a Work from Home based in Texas.

The Main Responsibilities

• Manager will be responsible for managing people, budgets, and customer commitments for a designated territory.
• Manage and supervise staff by appraising performance, training, administering salaries, and communicating department objectives.
• Must be accessible 24 X 7 X 365.
• Drive continued training on new systems, improve processes and procedures and push initiatives throughout the organization.
• Help support both Lumen engineering and construction teams, and engineering and construction vendors with quality and following of processes and productivity.
• Participate in the process of negotiating and/or bidding of projects with vendors/contractors for the construction/installation of OSP facilities.
• Responsible for capital and expense budgets to support area along with meeting and exceeding required build schedules for business as usual (BAU) work including growth, rehab, road moves, site vacates, and administer fiber outage restoration.
• Establish and maintain effective and productive working relationships with personnel at all impacting organizations as well as other external contacts so that issues are resolved correctly and timely.
• Manage employees, contractors, and vendors for the efficient and timely completion of projects.
• Manage and direct plans and specifications to provide high quality service within established time frames and to meet defined financial criteria.
• Serve as the interface on engineering and construction matters helping to ensure conformance to established practices and procedures.
• Provide leadership and motivation to team members and support local in-person and virtual teams.
• Establish and monitor performance objectives for direct reports that align with organization goals, while coaching to attain objectives.
• Determine training requirements and promote direct report development through individual development plans (IDP), peer-to-peer training, and internal and external training resources.
• Continually striving to better define and improve departmental processes for optimal efficiency and network reliability while engaging intradepartmental and interdepartmental resources to achieve results.
• Perform special projects and other duties as assigned.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and training.
• 2-4 years of telecommunications engineering and construction knowledge and experience.
• 1+ year of previous supervisory or leadership experience.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Strong computer skills required, including experience with the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, etc.).
• Possess strong organizational, time management and analytical skills.
• Ability to analyze and manage financial data and that include capital and expense budgets.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, demands with competing priorities, all while making timely decisions.
• Ability to build group commitment to company goals and objectives.
• Must enjoy working in a fast-pace, results driven organization.
• Ability to travel as required.  
• Must have a valid driver's license.
• Must be available 24X7 to support network emergencies 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience, preferably with 5-7 years related experience and 2+ years previous manager level leadership experience.
• Ability to prepare presentations and clearly articulate the position being taken in the presentations.
• Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills acquired through previous experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute short- and long-term objectives in a team environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of engineering / construction practices and procedures, including underground, buried, and aerial construction of copper and fiber facilities, and road move experience.

Compensation

The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee's primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual's qualifications.

 

Location Based Pay Ranges

$109,330 - $145,770 in these states: TX

 

As with the pay range variety that's based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications and other business needs.

What to Expect Next

Based on your job application information you may be given the opportunity to complete a video interview immediately after applying. This will include a set of questions for you to record a response to in addition to Game Challenges. Completion of this video interview is a requirement in order to be considered for our open position. Now not a good time? No worries, we will also send you an email with a link to complete the video interview. We strongly recommend that you complete this within 5 days of your application date.