176090: Project Manager – Network

USC/ GC Only!

Has to be LOCAL to one of these cities even if a remote role.

Note:

• Location: Orlando (2), Wilkes Barre, Las Vegas, Minneapolis
• Pay Rate/Salary: $125k/9$
• Status: temp to perm or perm
• Location: In-Market preferred
• Salary: $120k - $130k / 9% bonus
• Status: Permanent hire w/90-day probation

Job Description:

• Project Manager – Network

Overall Purpose:

• Responsible for end-to-end delivery of network programs and projects—primarily large-scale fiber build deployment ensuring scope, budget, quality, and stakeholder expectations are met while enabling successful market launch and operational readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the single point of contact for end-to-end management of multiple projects/programs within the Network organization.
• Maintain in-market presence as required to support project execution, accelerate issue resolution, and ensure alignment with local stakeholders.
• Conduct end-to-end project management leadership across planning and build phases for new fiber deployment and network expansion initiatives: define scope, objectives, success criteria, estimates, dependencies, and implementation strategy.
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, and project instrumentation to track milestones, dependencies, costs, and performance; apply strong financial acumen to forecast, control spend and ensure delivery on time and at or below budget.
• Lead project status meetings and recurring operations reviews in partnership with senior leadership; prepare executive-ready materials and communicate progress, risks, and actions through recurring executive updates.
• Identify resource demands, risks, and issues/roadblocks; recommend mitigation strategies and drive timely resolution within time and resource constraints.
• Manage and hold internal and external team members (including suppliers, vendors, and general contractors) accountable for deliverables and quality standards; deeply inspect field progress, identify risks early, and drive corrective actions to meet the market build plan.
• Provide overall direction plus technical and analytical guidance to cross-functional project teams spanning organizations and markets.
• Communicate plans, performance, risks, and actions to executive leadership on a recurring cadence; develop and deliver executive-ready materials and updates.
• Partner with market and operational stakeholders to coordinate build execution and market launch readiness; align launch timing with I&M teams and communicate construction locations and schedules with I&M and locate teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 to 10 years of senior technical project/program management experience (network and/or infrastructure preferred).
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale fiber optic build deployments (plan and build phases).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage external suppliers/vendors/general contractors to on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, and resource management capabilities, including development of mitigation strategies.
• Strong financial acumen, including budget tracking, forecasting, and cost controls.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including recurring executive leadership updates.
• In-market presence as required to support field execution and partner alignment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience coordinating utility locating, permitting, right-of-way, and construction sequencing for fiber builds.
• Experience coordinating market launch timing and readiness activities with construction and operations teams.
• Background in data management, business analytics, and executive-ready performance reporting.

Skills and Tools:

• Leadership, accountability, attention to detail, and ability to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills (work plans, schedules, budget tracking, data analysis).
• Strong PowerPoint skills (executive communication, recurring ops reviews, and status updates).
• Power BI proficiency preferred (dashboards, KPI tracking, and performance reporting).

Top 5 Interview Guide Questions

• Leadership & accountability: Tell me about a fiber (or broadband) build project where you inherited misaligned stakeholders (construction, I&M/ops, vendors, market leadership). How did you reset expectations, assign owners, and hold teams accountable to get back on plan?
• Listen for: clear operating cadence, escalation path, vendor management, measurable commitments, and outcomes.
• Fiber/broadband execution experience: Walk me through the end-to-end lifecycle you’ve managed for a fiber deployment project (planning through build and launch readiness). What were the critical path items and the most common failure points? What was the scope and scale of the project or program?
• Listen for: permitting/ROW, make-ready, utility locates, splice/testing, as-builts, closeout, and launch handoff.
• 5–8 years PM depth (scope/schedule/budget): Describe the most technically complex project you ran that was at risk on schedule and cost. What metrics did you track weekly, what tradeoffs did you make, and what was the final delivery result?
• Listen for: forecast vs actuals, earned value or equivalent, change control, risk register discipline, and decision rationale.
• Data, reporting & tools (Power BI / dashboards): What reports/dashboards have you built or owned to manage a market build plan? Which KPIs did you choose, how did you validate the data, and how did you use the reporting to drive action in ops reviews and exec updates? What applications or tools do you use to manage your work and track progress and capture risks to the plan?
• Listen for: data sources, definitions, refresh cadence, exception-based management, and storytelling for executives.
• Excel capability (practical test question): If I gave you 2 or 3 production files (addresses, footage, dates, cost codes, and crew info), how would you structure Excel to (a) spot schedule slippage, (b) integrate the data into a single comprehensive view (c) produce a weekly executive summary?
• Listen for: pivot tables, Power Query, lookups, conditional formatting, basic forecasting, and clean data model practices.