Telecom Project Manager Jobs

12-month contract, with the potential for extension, or conversion to full-time, based on performance and client need.

Hybrid Role (3 days onsite, 2 days from home).

Pay Rate: $45.00 HR W2 - $49.00 HR W2 - this includes the option for medical, dental and vision benefits after 90 days. No other benefits are included.

looking for someone who has enterprise experience. not looking for someone who has construction project management experience.. Not a construction manager. My team manages projects both lit and dark fiber. We are the face of the company. Someone who has customer experience is helpful.

Essential Job Functions

• Coordinate and lead customer meetings including kick-off and status update calls.

• Manage the activities of internal operations and engineering groups to ensure proper planning, communications and implementation of solutions.

• Communicate customer requirements to other cross-functional technical teams and project stakeholders to achieve project results.

• Communicate project status including dependencies to customer in order to set and meet expectations.

• Develop a relationship with the client and serve as primary point of contact for any discussions regarding the project status and deliverables with the customer as well as with client Fiber management.

• Perform critical path analysis for projects to calculate, identify and manage aspects of the deployment and mitigate risk.

• Make project specific decisions independently to affect the overall scope of a project.

• Empowered to reject invalid or poor work, recommend alternate courses of action.

• Ability to take complete ownership of projects with minimal assistance or supervision.

• Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.

• Ensure project documents are complete, current and store appropriately

• Build company image by collaborating with customers and employees; enforcing ethical business practices

• If applicable, maintain district data for centralized functions such as fleet and inventory.

• Track organizational priorities, organize meetings and track action items and create reports, presentations, and other activities as dictated by the business

Education/Certifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent industry experience

Experience/Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of Project Management experience

• Experience managing large scale complex projects in a like or related industry

• Strong working knowledge with the Microsoft Office portfolio

Other Skills/Abilities

• Direct and indirect people management experience

• Excellent client facing and internal communication skills

• Thorough understanding of project management fundamentals including requirement

definition, resource scheduling, risk mitigation and change management

• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills

• Understanding of OSP/ISP construction

• Strong understanding of Ethernet technologies

• Understanding of carrier installation, test and turn-up procedures

• Must demonstrate experience in managing multiple vendors, resources, to deliver time sensitive projects.

• Must demonstrate experience in customer relationship management and possess the ability to adapt project management approach to satisfy customer’s needs