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Director, OSP Area at Zayo group

Posted in Other 30+ days ago.

Type: Full Time
Location: Tempe, Arizona





Job Description:

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated Internet access, and colocation services. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP Backbone and 44 carrier-neutral data centers. Through its Cloudlink service, Zayo provides low latency private connectivity that attaches enterprises to their public cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Position Description
The Director, OSP Area is responsible for everything that happens and fails to happen in outside plant (OSP) in given markets, with regards to planning and implementation of fiber connectivity solutions programs and projects that adhere to approved plans, budgets, and schedules. This includes but not limited to: interval performance, due date met performance, cost tracking and management, cost actuals versus budget, build quality, reporting accuracy, project tracker accuracy, reporting, communication updates and inter-department interface. The OSP Area Director is expected to provide direction to in Market Managers and Project Managers, as well as taking a direct Project Manager role in large, high profile projects. The overall OSP Area Director goals are to deliver projects on time, on interval, on budget and in compliance with all build quality and safety standards.

Responsibilities
- Manage all facets of the OSP project - deliver on time, on budget, within quality and safety standards. These projects include FTT projects, On-net orders, route miles of build which may involve major highway, Rail Road and/or river crossings/access.
- Resolve OSP roadblocks.
- Effectively track, report and communicate OSP project progress.
- Provide early communication on potential due date, interval, and/or budget slips to the OSP functional leadership.
- Participate in project meetings and effectively support the overall project effort.
- Support customer meetings as necessary.
- Develop high-level OSP schedule for each opportunity during proposal and service order generation stages (pre-sale).
- Develop detailed baseline OSP schedule upon project kickoff (using standardized OSP tracker), and maintain this schedule throughout the course of the project. Ensure that project tracker is updated daily.
- Manage OSP RFP/bidding/award in compliance with company procurement policy.
- Review and approve OSP contractor invoices in a timely manner.
- Complete and close-out all assigned ISO tasks in a timely manner.
- Provide as-built drawings to Fiber Engineering upon completion of construction for each segment.
- Daily and frequent interaction with third party outside plant engineering and construction suppliers, local municipalities, public utilities, Zayo service delivery coordinators. product leads, sales/sales support team members.
- Periodic interface with Zayo senior management on critical projects, customer escalations, and budget reviews.
- Ensure project meet deadlines.
- Full ability and willingness to pull on-call duty when assigned, as dictated by the needs of the business

Qualifications
- BS degree in Engineering, Information Technology or other related technical discipline and/or equivalent work experience;
- Seven to ten years technical and management work related experience in the telecommunications industry with emphasis on transmission methods, OSP/ISP, optical networks, project management, and direct customer interface;
- The individual will manage an organization of 25 technical personnel and managers;
- The position will require outstanding critical thinking and decision-making process, the anticipation of risky business situations with deliberate and swift response to same;
- The position will be expected to compose and manage both expense and capital budgets in excess of $1M. The individual will be responsible for the prompt delivery of revenue both new business and earn from existing accounts;
- The position will require extensive travel and access/availability to serve the needs of the business on a 24/7 basis;
- The individual must possess outstanding communication skills, written and verbal, as well as, strong interpersonal skills as he/she interfaces with subordinates, peers, customers, and vendors.

Rewards
- Competitive compensation
- Excellent benefits including health, dental, vision, 401 (k), disability and life insurance
- Fitness membership discounts
- Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave.

Zayo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. EEO IS THE LAW Zayo invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company s written Affirmative Action Plan. This plan is available for inspection upon request by emailing our People Ops team.


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