Description

At Lightspeed Construction Group, we take a people-first approach to construction. We know communications infrastructure construction isn’t just about fiber and towers. It’s about collaboration and honesty. At Lightspeed, a Full Circle Fiber Partners company, we bring more than steel toes and hard hats to the job site – we bring teamwork and integrity, and we do everything with a mindset of safety. Just as a well-placed network connects a community, a well-organized team powers all projects to success. Service excellence, pioneering experience, and a passion for what we do – that’s Lightspeed.

Lightspeed is a dynamic organization of diverse, customer-focused people committed to our Core Values: Service Excellence, Accountability, Safety, Integrity, Fairness and Mutual Respect. We are looking for motivated and professional individuals to grow with our team. Lightspeed offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, matching 401K and more.

Job Summary

The Project Manager will perform an integral role within the day-to-day scheduling, task coordination, reporting, escalation, and triage activities related to OSP construction related activities. 

The project manager will be the primary point of contact for all in-house and contingent staff supporting our construction and maintenance activities with our prime customers. This is a high-visibility role working alongside existing Lightspeed senior management as well as our customer’s field and network teams.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of workforce schedules, project production reporting employing typical project management process/methodologies such as resource allocation, Gannt charts/Kanban, and RAID logs.
• Ensure all customer required network notification and scheduling tools are up to date and accurate.
• Coordinate with in-house and contingent resources on day-to-day assignments, resource deconfliction and triage activities.
• Develop daily, monthly, and quarterly performance reporting metrics that illustrate quantitative project success and highlight areas for improvement. 
• Develop contingency plans for workforce shortages or similar critical project challenges.
• Ability to manage, mentor/coach junior members of the team. 
• Exceptional inter-personal and communication skills. (Both written and spoken) 
• The ideal candidate will possess the ability to communicate effectively across functional areas and throughout all levels in the organization, including senior customer staff.
• Ability to understand the motivating factors of various constituencies (internal - cross-functional and external – customers/partners) and establish a working cadence in a manner that motivates all parties appropriately.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information systems or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Prior experience as a dedicated project manager/coordinator in a telecommunications/cable/MSO environment.
• Prior experience in outside plant construction and/or network engineering.
• Prior experience/knowledge in PMBOK methodology and processes.
• PgMP, PMP, Prince2 or similar certification is a plus, though not required.
• Strategic thinking with strong analytical skills. 
• Ability to operate effectively across matrix organizations.
• Verifiable relationship management skills.
• Strong initiative, comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to move outside of one’s comfort zone.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in role, with Telecom/Cable/MSO or similar industry environment.
• Above average skill level with MS Office suite of tools to such as, excel, word, MS project and MS Teams.
• Comfortable with 3rd party tools.

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with this position. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.