Manager Telecom

Overview

Overview

Looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Then you may have found your next career move. We’re looking for a Manger – Teleocm to join our Aerial Crew team and help connect America. Directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in the installation, maintenance, and repair of underground, buried, and aerial, telephone cables by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

Qualifications

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Performs job surveys by conducting ride outs of new work to provide feedback for pricing and staffing need.
• Reviews proposed construction plans and schematic drawings to ensure that proposals are compatible with the existing plant and adhere to State/Federal and contract regulations
• Inspects construction sites and installations to ensure service deadlines are met.
• Directs and coordinates testing and inspecting of work for QC and completion.
• Prepares budget determines workforce requirements and establishes work schedules to meet service loads.
• Manage payroll and billing process to ensure accuracy.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervises employees in the Construction Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments.
• Judgment – Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and accurate judgment; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Includes appropriate people in decision-making process; Makes timely decisions.
• Planning/Organizing – Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources.
• Professionalism – Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments.
• Dependability – Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals. Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Associate’s degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or five (5) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Fiber experience a plus.

Other Skills and Abilities

5 years outside plant construction experience. Familiar with the placement of aerial facilities, buried facilities (direct and underground). Ability to read and understand utility prints.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Excel and Word software.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Valid Driver’s License.

Physical Demands 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.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to safely operate a motor vehicle, to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.,

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits and Company Summary

What you’ll get…

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Plans
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Supplemental Life and AD&D
• 401(k) Retirement Savings w/ Company Match
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Company Discounts
• Legal Insurance
• Paid Time Off and Holidays

Who we are…

Fiber Technologies Solutions, LLC (“Fiber Tech”) provides a wide range of services to both telecommunications and cable providers. These services include engineering and design, placement of aerial and underground optical fiber cable and coaxial construction, optical fiber cable splicing and testing, maintenance, installation and emergency restoration.

Headquartered in Buford, Georgia, Fiber Tech has been providing telecommunication services throughout the country for over 35 years. Our experienced and dedicated workforce is committed to providing only the best services to our customers in a safe and timely manner.

We are a company united in our vision of connecting America. Our culture is grounded in and shaped by our values. These values act as our behavioral compass and guide how we interact with each other, our customers, and the communities in which we operate. Across our teams, we strive to treat each other with respect, value different perspectives and experiences, keep our and others, safety top of mind, and uphold the highest ethical standards. Our company supplies the single most critical resource telecom service providers need: skilled people.

We serve the nation from more than 500 field offices and are unparalleled in scope and scale. Our talented workforce of over 15,000 employees provides a wide array of specialty services including construction, engineering, underground facility locating, fulfillment, and program management.

We provide opportunities for our people to learn and develop the skills and knowledge to be successful in their current role as well as to prepare them for future growth within the company. Join us!

EEO

Our Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind including, based on disability and protected veteran status. The Company’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company’s policy to comply with all applicable state and federal laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Please visit the following URL to view the EEO is the Law poster and the Supplement. (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm)

The Company also does not consider criminal convictions to be an absolute bar to employment and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Applicants applying for positions in Illinois are not required to disclose arrests or sealed or expunged records of convictions.

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