Manager of LIT Services

The Manger, LIT Services is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing and directing the day-to-day aspects of the LIT infrastructure services within the organization. This position requires a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of lighting technologies, extensive experience in telecommunications, and a proven track record in managing and expanding service offerings. This role will help achieve strategic objectives, emphasizing efficiency, client satisfaction, growth, compliance, financial performance, innovation, and reputation management.

Essential Job Functions

• Acts as the primary team member responsible for the Field Technicians
• Oversee the planning and execution of field service projects, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.
• Work with fellow technicians at the job site. This is an active working position, as well as a supervising one.
• Ensures that the team members are following policies/procedures.
• Participates in the hiring process and recommends disciplinary action of team members.
• Mentors and provides for the personal growth of individual team members by sharing knowledge, industry standards, technological news, and demonstrating technical concepts.
• Performing on the job training to new members when needed
• Collaborate with other departments, including network engineering and customer support, to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting network issues, identifying root causes, and implementing effective solutions to minimize downtime and service interruptions.
• Oversee vendor relationships and optimize partnerships for efficient procurement and operational excellence.
• Ability to maintain operational documentation of procedures, and incidents, as well as generate reports on department performance, utilization, and trends.
• Proficiency in managing purchase orders (POs), including creation, modification, and tracking of POs to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing task allocation tools to assign, track, and prioritize tasks between ISP technicians, facilitating efficient workload coordination and timely task completion

Requirements

• High School Diploma and a minimum of four years of experience in a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Valid driver's license
• Hands-on experience with installation of electronic communication equipment.
• Hands-on experience operating related test equipment.
• Ability to lead a team

Other Skills/Abilities

• Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous.
• People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects.
• Achievement-oriented -- enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail.
• Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture.