We are hiring for an Internet Service Provider with strong OSP FTTH experience. Expertise in splicing, OTDR testing, and construction software.
This position offers $80,000-$120,000 with a bonus structure, company truck, and 401k match.
Responsibilities
- Oversees all aspects of regional construction projects, from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines, quality standards, and budgetary constraints.
- Directly manages aerial and underground construction utilizing in-house and contracted construction teams to ensure exacting standards of build quality and timeliness.
- Serves as the primary point of contact for build issues and conflict resolution.
- Monitors, tracks, and reports daily production updates; recommend solutions to executive team for increasing productivity and/or decreasing costs.
- Financial report preparation and tracking as it relates to regional construction projects. Presentation of such reporting to various audiences, including board of directors and company executive team.
- Understanding of permitting process, including the identification of right-of-way and governmental permitting requirements for proposed routes. Ensure all projects comply with local, state, and federal regulations.
- Interpret complex construction documents, such as prints, plans, and splicing diagrams used in the splicing of fiber optics.
- Oversee design and engineering of approved projects, ensuring tasks such as final route recommendations, field engineering, and pole loading are completed on time and within budget.
- Manage team to install, test, troubleshoot and maintain single-mode optical fiber (SMF) in a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) residential network. This network incorporates innovative technologies such as a 10-gigabit symmetrical passive optical network (XGS-PON), and optical network terminals (ONTs) with Wi-Fi 6 technology.
- Manage team to install, splice, terminate, troubleshoot, and repair optical fiber systems under limited supervision.
- Represent company to vendors, contractors, clients, and the community.
- Safety is priority-one. Performing the job safely comes above all else.
Required Skills
- Seven years construction experience, with at least five years in a managerial capacity in the fiber optic telecommunications industry.
- First-hand knowledge of all aspects of fiber optic network installation, from route construction to drops, to inside-the-home installation.
- Two years’ experience managing FTTH installation team members who perform the following tasks or possess the following skillsets:
- Pulling and terminating fiber cabling.
- Experience with XGS-PON and ONT with Wi-Fi 6 technology.
- Fusion splicing and terminations.
- Knowledge of optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR), light source, and power meters.
- Familiarity with splice drawings and OTDR test sheets and reading traces.
- Ability to read splicing matrix and design drawings.
- Cable prep, single and mass fusion splicing, and termination abilities.
- Optical fiber test and troubleshooting abilities.
- Familiarity with computer-aided design (CAD) tools and geographic information systems (GIS) applications, including a familiarity with Google Earth and use of KML/KMZ files.
- Proficiency in use of construction software, Microsoft 365 applications, and project management applications.
- Demonstrated ability to read and comprehend blueprints, equipment manuals, schematics, and complex instructions.
If you are ready to make change to your community, apply today!
