FTTH Rollout Project Manager

FTTx Rollout Project Manager

Contract - Initially 6 Months

Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire

The FTTx Rollout Project Manager reports into the Construction / Project Manager and is responsible to plan and manage the roll out of the deployment activities for whole or part of the Outside Plant Network, ensuring the project is delivered in scope of contractual obligations and within forecasted costs, time and required quality and compliant with applicable H&S regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Plans and Manages the rollout of the deployment activities for whole or part of a customer project ensuring the project is delivered in scope of contractual obligations and within forecast cost, time, required quality and compliant with applicable H&S regulations.
• Accountable for allocated region to develop and maintain all project planning and scheduling as required for the project and stakeholders, both internal as well as external
• Analyzes the feasibility of the deployment schedule in collaboration with the project management team in terms of resources (internal and subcontractor teams) to ensure Client meets contractual scope of work, milestones and customer pre-requisites
• Lead the request for collection of all information and/or deliverables from all stakeholders (Design, Permits, Materials and As-Built Team) to enable the deployment progress and completion
• Liaises with Project Manager for operational needs related to variation events, risks, planning, budget, quality
• Key stakeholder in the subcontractor selection process with the project management team and procurement as well as the subcontractor onboarding process.
• Owns and manages all operational aspects of the subcontractor relationship including conducting subcontractor performance evaluations
• Build and maintain relationship with construction stakeholders in customer team required for the customer acceptance process and ad-hoc site visits / inspections
• Build and maintain relationship with 3rd party stakeholders (Municipalities, asset owners, road authorities/owners, public safety officials, general public,) that will directly or indirectly be impacted by the deployment of the network.
• Ensure all subcontractor resources have the required level of expertise and accreditation/qualifications
• Verify that performed work are in accordance with the solution and the scope of work
• Review periodically the progress reports in the applicable tools and collects actual delivery performance information and compares actual performance with baseline and perform necessary escalations where applicable
• Validate any variation or change in the deployment that has impact to cost or schedule is supported by an approved change
• Report any variation or change not already supported by an approved change
• Ensures that plans, schedules and forecasts are kept up to date and communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Identify, report and monitor project risks both within and outside of work domain
• Directly responsible for the site supervisors assigned to your projects, coordinating, assigning and prioritizing the work to each of them
• Oversee, together with assigned supervisors, internal and external field deployment team members, sets up and maintains clear and effective internal and external communication with the relevant project stakeholders, participating to reviews as needed
• Competence development planning and training of internal as well as sub-contractor teams within project-relevant tasks
• Identifies, reports and support up-scopes with the Customer Project Management team
• Identifies, reports and support cost improvement and efficiency improvement opportunities.
• Accountable for all deliverables and conducting of the customer acceptance process for assigned sites
• Ensure daily progress tracking is in place by supervisors and subcontractors including the updates on the relevant tools (e.g. RoT/WF)
• Accountable for cost control measures on work area
• Accountable, in co-operation with the supervisor, for acceptance of all works delivered up to and including site handover by the subcontractor
• Produce ad-hoc reports as required by the Construction / Project Manager

Skills Must:

• 5+ years of FTTH rollout management
• CSCS Card or EUSR
• CDM Accredited or equivalent
• SMST Accredited
• Valid driving license (equivalent to European BE)
• 2-4 years documented roll out management within fixed network rollout

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