Senior Director, OSP Engineering and Design

Application Deadline: 12/20/2024 or until position filled.

General Summary

The Senior Director of OSP Engineering & Design is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing the strategic planning, execution, and delivery of all Outside Plant (OSP) engineering and design activities for the organization. This position drives the development of scalable, cost-effective, and high-quality OSP infrastructure to support the company's mission of delivering reliable, high-speed internet to customers. The Senior Director will lead an OSP team to ensure timely project delivery, regulatory compliance, and adherence to industry standards.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Responsible for ALL FTTH and fixed wireless planning
• Develop FTTH, wireless, transport design teams including staffing, contracting, and training necessary personnel to meet deployment plan requirements.
• Identify and implement systems and tools to create a best-in-class network engineering/planning workflow.
• Analyze and leverage Rise Broadbands existing network to create plans that produce unique, fast to deploy, high speed and high availability FTTH and Fixed Wireless Hybrid Network.
• Identify, negotiate, and onboard high quality engineering vendors that ramp to meet the engineering needs of the deployment plan.
• Fiber market planning: lead the development of the business case for market expansion and approval by creating high-level market designs & market feasibility studies.
• Create standards, efficient workflows, and best practices resulting in optimized engineering, operations, and service delivery practices.
• Develop strong teams; promote productivity, accountability, and community spirit.
• Establish data-driven performance metrics.
• Manage departmental budgets, provide departmental forecasts and maintain monthly tracking.
• Cultivate innovation, creativity, teamwork, accountability, and professional growth of the network teams.
• Initiates communications and collaboration with peers, clients, vendors, and all levels of management, and stakeholders on an ongoing basis to achieve objectives and meet commitments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in OSP engineering. Design, and/or construction within the telecommunications industry.
• 5+ years of senior leadership experience managing teams and complex projects.
• Demonstrated, on-the-ground experience in the design and deployment of fiber networks
• Experience contracting and managing 3rd party engineering resources
• Ability to quickly analyze information and transfer into a business plan/proposal
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a team to optimize plans and results

Working Conditions

• Working conditions may include being in an open (shared) cubicle/workspace area.
• Employee remains in the sitting position for prolonged hours. Employee is required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear on a regular basis. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 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.

Disclaimer

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive statement of every duty and responsibility which will ever be required of an employee in this position, however, the employee will be held responsible for all duties assigned.

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