Network Planning Manager

Network Planning Manager

Location:

Waynesboro, VA or Charleston, WVA

The Manager, Network Planning - Outside Plant (NPO) will be responsible for managing a team that designs and develops engineering documentation to support the fiber optic network. Responsibilities include daily technical guidance and assistance to support engineering staff. The candidate will assist the Director of Network Engineering with budgets, project coordination, scheduling, and implementation of network‑related projects. Ability to perform OSP and equipment cost studies, build estimates/analysis, and business cases are mandatory requirements.

This position will play a key strategic role in coordinating and planning with Enterprise/Wholesale sales teams and Engineers regarding current, future, and past opportunities, Operations teams for network optimization, as well as the Type II Access group in identifying cost‑saving opportunities.

The candidate should possess an understanding of telecommunications in general, telecom products, and CLEC/ILEC/RLEC to long‑distance carrier connectivity. Experience in client project management, service management, service delivery, outside plant and service activation/network operations management is pertinent to the position. The applicant should also have knowledge and experience in understanding business requirements, translating business requirements into business processes, business work metrics, and business process improvement.

• Measuring employee workload, scheduling, and leading teams in meeting the workload and evaluating the quality of the work products in the forms of network diagrams, fiber provisioning documents and related documents.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with Sales, Sales Engineering, cross‑functional teams, and C‑Suite persons is required.
• Knowledge with CAD and reading and writing fiber network schematics is required.
• Familiarity with M4, Street Atlas, Google Earth, and similar geographic information systems is desired.
• Experience with other telecommunications asset inventory systems such as Granite and/or Metasolv is desired.
• Design of the telecommunications industry and its practices/standards pertaining to fiber construction, costing, DWDM, Ethernet, SONET, and CLEC facilities.
• Must have skills in defining, evaluating, solving, and presenting alternatives to complex engineering problems and applying engineering and economic principles while conducting studies and surveys to analyze a technical system or design into component parts.
• Must have knowledge of CLEC design and implementation requirements.

• Two-year degree and 10 years of experience.
• Bachelor degree in Arts, Business, Science, or Engineering and five years of business experience.
• Or Master’s degree and three years of business experience preferred.
• College/University/Technical school and years of experience will be considered.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office software (email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) is required.
• Relational dBase experience is desired but not required.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.