Project Manager, OSP Construction & Engineer
Summary
Manage OSP construction and engineering projects for a fiber ISP, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery for residential and commercial builds using standard project management tools and LEAN processes.
Position Title: Project Manager, OSP Construction & Engineering
Base Salary: $77,000 to $126,000 annually DOE
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.
Ziply Fiber is a local internet service provider dedicated to elevating the connected lives of the
communities we serve. We offer the fastest home internet in the nation, a refreshingly great customer
experience, and affordable plans that put customers in charge.
As our state-of-the-art fiber network expands, so does our need for team members who can help us grow
and realize our goals.
Our Company Values:
• Genuinely Caring: We treat customers and colleagues like neighbors, with empathy and full
attention.
• Empowering You: We help customers choose what is best for them, and we support
employees in implementing new ideas and solutions.
• Innovation and Improvement: We constantly seek ways to improve how we serve customers
and each other.
• Earning Your Trust: We build trust through clear, honest, human communication.
Job Summary
The Project Manager, OSP Construction & Engineering is responsible for managing the quality, on-budget
and timely completion of all construction projects across residential and commercial segments. The
Project Manager, OSP Construction & Engineering will work closely with our vendor partners and will
ensure adherence to all company and government guidelines.
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.
Project Management and Delivery
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of projects using project management tools,
processes, and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on budget and with
excellent quality. Serve as point of contact for everything involving a project’s organization
and timeline.
• Create long and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to
deadlines.
• Demonstrate consistent ownership and accountability for the delivery of projects.
Project Status, Documentation, and Reporting
• Must have the ability to provide status across all ongoing projects at any given time.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation and provide regular streamlined reports to
leadership.
Communication, Coordination, and Resource Alignment
• Coordinate and host regular meeting series to ensure communication and alignment of
initiatives, information sharing and implementation of best practices.
• Ensure that all team members have the required information and resources to carry out their
tasks effectively.
• Coordinate with relevant internal team members to coordinate action items and realistic
timelines to meet business goals.
• Coordinate and facilitate with internal and external resources to affect the timely completion
of projects.
Risk Management and Issue Resolution
• Continuously perform risk assessment and resolve issues as they arise or quickly engage
others to resolve to reduce adverse timing and quality impacts of the project schedule.
Process Improvement and Operational Efficiency
• Gather and provide feedback on lessons learned, best practices and innovations on
process/procedures and tools to improve efficiencies and cycle time.
• Drive processes and automation to support LEAN process approaches to solve problems.
Other Duties
• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.
Required Qualifications:
• High school diploma or GED.
• Minimum five (5) years of Telecommunication experience or equivalent project management
experience.
• Experience managing large scale projects.
• Demonstrated experience meeting project commitment deadlines.
• Familiarity with Outside Plant (OSP) architectures consisting of underground, direct buried, aerial,
and building applications.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe.
• Understand LEAN concepts.
Preferred Qualifications:
• PMP certification
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Ability to influence others to meet project objectives.
• Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of
situations.
• Ability to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to work within critical deadlines.
• Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Effective conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends when applicable to meet
deadlines.
• Must be organized and accountable.
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; most of time is spent sitting in a
comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about. The employee must 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.
Work Environment
Work is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a
computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work is primarily a modern office
setting.
At all times, Ziply Fiber must be your primary employer. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, employees
may not hold outside employment nor be self-employed without obtaining approval in writing from Ziply
Fiber. In holding outside employment or self-employment, employees should ensure that participation
does not conflict with responsibilities to Ziply Fiber or its business interests.
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.