Construction Supervisor; St. Thomas, VI

What's the role?

As a Construction Supervisor, you will be responsible for all phases of cable construction in a manner consistent with Liberty Cable policies, procedures, quality work standards, customer needs, and applicable local, state, and federal laws. Responsible for leading day to day activities of the field personnel assigned & assist Project Manager with duties as assigned. Projects include network maintenance, B2B and residential new build.

• Monitor and report on all phases of new build construction projects.
• Supervising telecommunication construction projects from walk out to completion.
• Issue work to in-house and contractor crews. Review work on completion to ensure project is completed to business customer and municipal specifications.
• Perform pre‑construction job walks with business customer representative. Provide job cost estimates based on contract pricing and scope of work.
• Perform pre‑construction field inspection to ensure completion of make ready and existing aerial facilities owned by various power, telephone and CATV companies.
• Responsible for working with and leading contractors, preparing detailed work prints, writing Job Cost estimates, and crafting a bill of materials (BOM) for aerial and underground projects.
• Perform field inspections against invoices to ensure accuracy, ensure Liberty’s specifications are met, and material usage is correct.
• Perform daily quality control inspections of contractor production, quality, and accuracy requiring opening of vaults, pedestals, lockboxes, and other enclosures including detailed physical and visual inspection.
• Validate QC and reconciliation of commercial construction projects in progress and monitors contractor’s activities on a regular basis.
• Monitor and verify contractor compliance of safety procedures to include: OSHA, SCDOT and NESC standards, as documented in the Liberty Cable Construction Standards.
• Promptly and accurately provides necessary reports such as budgetary and weekly production reports. Responsible to Audit New Build, Joint Trench and/or assigned area(s). Maintain clear and precise data.
• Responsible for marking Liberty’s Network Plant by Government Agency procedure request.
• Responsible for hazard environmental of future plant installation an equipment location.
• Evaluate and supervise the replacement, upgrade, and new build of FTTH plant.
• Responsible for coordinating work between company employees, outside contractors, utility companies, and local governments for construction activities in a FTTH system.
• Project coordination and inspection of the entire construction process to include preliminary site reviews, work in progress and post construction inspection.
• Perform field engineering to include assessing the site, detailing the layout, resolving proposed location of electronics equipment (such as node locations, power supplies, taps and amplifier locations) such as OLT’s, terminals, splice enclosures, FTTH cabinets, etc.
• Draft field layout information detailing footage, equipment needed and customer feeds. Submit to and review with the design department.
• Obtain necessary permits (eg. Street, right-of-way, railroad).
• Budget project expenses based on completed design. This includes cost estimates, compiling bill of materials, project authorizations, budget tracking and post-construction reconciliation.
• Operate company assigned vehicle in a safe manner.
• Demonstrate and ensure compliance with the Customer First Philosophy, all Liberty Latin America's policies and procedures including the Code of Conduct and Liberty safety standards and procedures.
• Other functions may be assigned.

Associate Degree or equivalent experience in Electronics. Bachelor Degree preferred.

5+ years proven and related work experience in aerial and underground cable plant or telephone construction.

• Bilingual (Spanish and English).
• Knowledge of algebra, trigonometry, components, magnetism, AC and DC theory and circuits, resonate circuits and filters, electron tube and transistor fundamentals, amplifiers, and oscillators.
• Knowledge of aerial and underground construction practices…