Permit Review Specialist | Ripple Fiber

We are looking for a Permit Review Specialist to join our growing team in Charlotte, NC.

About Ripple Fiber

Our mission is to provide access to the best internet for life, while bridging the digital divide, using advanced technology aimed at improving people’s lives. Our technology has proven successful in other countries around the world and has provided ease of access to more opportunities from an education, entertainment, and employment perspective.

We have achieved the above by providing faster, more stable fiber internet connection, providing each user with their own bandwidth without needing to share with anyone else. Simply put, the capacity of fiber is a lot faster than copper and is the internet of the future.

Our aim is to provide this internet access to over 3 million homes over the next 7 years, across various states.

About our culture

We are a dynamic fast growing, fast paced, innovative company filled with ambitious, self-starters with entrepreneurial mindsets. We are people centric and place emphasis on employee experience, career growth and development.

About the role

The primary role of this position is to support outside plant fiber optic network design using geospatial, CAD and customer systems and design processes. The position will entail the creation and supervision of OSP network permit designs for FTTH projects that comply with customer, jurisdictional and pole owner requirements. You will also be responsible for preparing and acquiring permits and other position related task to support the engineering department. You will work within a supportive and fun team environment, which values hard work and dedication.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in scope reviews to ensure design requirements and outputs are understood thoroughly.
• Create and manage permit drawings that include Right of Way permits, aerial make ready, and/or Traffic Control Plans for City, County, Railway, DOT, and MOT permits.
• Have a good understanding of permit requirements and ensure that these requirements are captured appropriately in the permit package.
• Be able to gather parcel, plat and utility information.
• Oversee underground bore profile drawings and/or aerial pole data tables.
• Site visits to obtain necessary design information, photos, and sketches to create cost effective designs.
• Ensure obstacles such as culverts, waterways, easements, aerial trespass, etc. are accounted for in the design.
• Oversee construction level drawings, including detailed Bill of Materials, and interact with Project Management office as well as with the construction teams.
• Have an understanding of standard engineering or scientific theories, concepts, principles, and techniques.
• Manage permitting authority relationships and deliverables.

Qualifications:

• Experience with permitting agencies and processes such as state departments of transportation (DOT), local municipalities, Homeowners Associations (HOA), and private right of way owners
• Experience with outside plant (OSP) engineering and construction processes and specifically processes involving the placing of aerial, underground and buried telecommunications facilities
• Strong leadership, project management, and organizational skills
• Innovative, strategic thinker and decision maker.
• Strong problem solving and execution skills in driving transformation and change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience managing large multi-state projects.
• Experience with working with municipalities and utility partners.
• Experience managing larger regional infrastructure services vendors. 
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
• Ability to work in outside plant conditions

We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package (including 401k packages), various perks and opportunities for growth and development. If you believe you are a fit from a role and culture perspective, please submit your resume, along with a cover letter for consideration.

Ripple Fiber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Ripple Fiber is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.