Outside Plant Manager

Summit Broadband Inc. is a cutting edge, fiber-based broadband provider delivering best in class residential, commercial, and hospitality technology solutions. This growing, dynamic high-tech company headquartered in sunny Central Florida, is seeking an Outside Plant Manager to join our Outside Plant (OSP) team and grow with us. The new Summit Broadband is poised for an incredible future fueled by team members dedicated to being the best.

Job Title: Outside Plant Manager

Location: Central Florida

Status: Full-Time/Exempt

Reports to: Director, Outside Plant

Position Summary

Primary function of this position is to assist in developing plans for the implementation of new plant design including commercial, hospitality, and residential installations. This position is responsible for managing the construction and maintenance of the fiber and HFC infrastructure in order to maximize ROI and customer reliability and network availability.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Coordinate field survey of existing or proposed outside plant installations including aerial and underground network facilities and associated infrastructure;
• Review new and existing design for HFC network installations
• Review and approve designs for FTTH (Fiber to the Home) network installations for new properties;
• Manage and coordinate outside plant construction using both in-house and contract resources;
• Design and manage installation of CATV plant in multi-tenant building; both residential and hospitality based buildings;
• Design and manage installation of fiber architecture in multi-tenant, commercial, residential and hospitality based buildings;
• Responsible for meeting QC standards;
• Responsible for leading locators and splicing team, required to meet time requirements of locates and protect our fiber and HFC infrastructure;
• Responsible for personnel administration and development of outside plant engineering staff including hiring, mentoring, evaluating, and disciplinary action if necessary;
• In the development of the team members, this position must have knowledge of splicing techniques, troubleshooting techniques, network architecture, documentation necessities and end-to-end process;
• Train personnel and develop competencies and expertise in others on splicing, troubleshooting, network architecture, Bentley documentation and process requirements;
• Ensure system compliance to NCTA, FCC regulations and Summit minimum operating specifications
• Liaise with other departments as necessary to maintain an in-depth technical knowledge of new technology being deployed
• Troubleshoot systems as necessary and lead in the restoration of all plant issues;
• Maintenance, design, provisioning and troubleshooting of outside plant components;
• Lead the design and plant documentation efforts Must have a basic knowledge of fiber design and the Bentley V8i fiber documentation system;
• Lead the splicing of all types of fiber, coax, CAT5/6 cable. Ensure Fiber Optic Network Technicians obtain the training and development in order to maximize their involvement in network design and splicing requirments;
• Manage system performance while responding to customer inquiries as necessary;
• Responsible for the development and implementation of methods procedures and practices related to the Company’s Outside Plant Splicing, Construction and Fiber Optic documentation policies;
• Ability to clearly document, update and interface with the ePortal system as well as the Electronic Network ticket Management system;
• Respond to the needs of a 24/7/365 operation;
• Other duties as assigned including non-technical and administrative/project management duties.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent work experience required
• 5 years of people management experience required
• Strong organization and project management skills
• Strong knowledge of RF and optical networks
• Working knowledge of network design software (Predominantly Bentley V8i, but Lode Data/OSP Insight/AutoCAD beneficial)
• Knowledge of cable television products and services
• Minimum 10 years experience in a CATV and FTTH environment
• Must be able to pass criminal background check and have clean driving record
• Must be able to pass drug test
  
  

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Summit Broadband, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Company participates in the E-Verify program.