Senior Permitting Manager (6338)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world? 

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities. 

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns. 

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career. 

Position Overview

The role of the Permitting Manager in the Permitting & Regulatory Services organization is to manage regulatory scoping, acquisition, and compliance in support of the Marine Services’ cable installation and repair projects worldwide.  This role encompasses all project phases beginning at Bids & Proposals through post-installation (i.e., maintenance).  This role interfaces and coordinates with multiple levels within SubCom’s internal organization (e.g., Sales, Marine, R&D, Project Management, Finance, Procurement, Fleet Operation, Quality, and Legal) and externally with our Customers, Suppliers, and Regulators.  The Permitting Manager position has a significant impact on project implementation schedules and budgets by making certain that proper regulatory due diligence is conducted to ensure that project activities (e.g., marine cable route survey and installation) are conducted on time and within budget in compliance with national, state, and local regulatory requirements or international equivalents.  

Responsibilities

• Manage and track regulatory requirement scoping, acquisition, and compliance and coordinate these efforts with subcontractors, SubCom's project teams, Customers, and Regulators. 
• Create and update permitting plans of work in MS Project to manage and track permitting efforts. 
• Contract and manage subcontractors including adherence to scopes of work and schedules. 
• Prepare and update weekly reports to status permitting efforts. 
• Identify and quantitatively and qualitatively categorize regulatory risk. Develop mitigation strategies and mitigation measures to avoid or minimize regulatory risk. 
• Create, update, and archive quality documentation such as plans of work, flow charts, meeting minutes, etc. 
• Manage internal budgets, contractor billing milestones, invoices, and budget forecasts.