Transport Project Manager

Job Description

Overview

The role of the Transport Project Manager is to manage the service delivery for EF&I & Professional Services towards the Customer for multiple projects. The Project Manager will be ultimately responsible for the successful delivery of all projects under their management within the North America region. The end customers consist of terrestrial subsea, long haul regional carriers and global ISPs.

Location: Dallas, USA OR Open for Major Cities of States

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities

The Deployment Project Manager is responsible for the following:

• Development and implementation of a project plan for EF&I/Professional Service, maintain the Customer Action Register and the customer documentation package.
• Execution of multiple projects, on-time, on budget, following industry practices.
• Validate site surveys, Nodal/Link acceptance documents & work with Systems design engineers.
• Manage customer expectations on implementations, interface with customer remotely and in person, manage support partners and implement best install practices and Quality Assurance standards.
• Create, maintain, and communicate risk assessments, action registers, issues logs, daily reports, communications plan, financial records, project tracker and internal statistical reports.
• Host conference calls, present at customer meetings and create presentations.
• Manage deployment teams in the field, both technically and with hands‐on approach – Enhance partner skills and work with Infinera partners to reduce costs and improve productivity and efficiency.
• Report to Service Delivery Manager
• Support with RFP responses & customer quotes
• Business acumen

Experience & Essential Skills

• Shall be familiar with various technologies in Transmission / IP Network, DWDM, OTN & SDH Deployment experience – To include hands on installation or commissioning.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in Telecom Sector and hands-on experience as Technical Project Manager
• Strong experience/ working knowledge on work order tracking, lifecycle management for E2E deployment, network migration for SDH and DWDM networks
• Experience on project management for Network Deployment, e.g. Transport to IP, Carrier Ethernet, etc.
• Desirable Knowledge & exposure of Multi-Vendor Transmission / DWDM products
• Strong Communication Skills for coordination with internal and external customers
• English (Written, oral) essential
• Budgets/business/financial knowledge – SAP experience (Desirable)
• Microsoft Project proficient – Plan creation, development, and control
• SharePoint 365 (Desirable)
• Communications Skills – Reporting to VP/CEO level
• Project Planning/Managing, methodical thinking
• Quality standards and Audits
• Site infrastructure knowledge
• Data center connectivity knowledge
• Being a team player is paramount.

Desirable Skills

• PMP certification
• Prince 2 practitioner certification (must be current)
• Agile practitioner
• 5+ years project management experience in SDH/DWDM/Metro networks
• Educated to HND/BTEC level