Senior Construction Engineer

Lumen Technologies connects the world by igniting business growth through the connection of people, data, and applications. The Senior Construction Engineer will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of new telecommunications networks across multiple locations, managing vendor engagement and ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Defines and reviews comprehensive plans for large, complex, highly technical projects that cover the following:  phased delivery plan; resource requirements, project costs, project schedule; risk assessment and mitigation; opex and capital budget requirements; team structure and accountability matrix; project governance and reporting; forecasting of upcoming projects and corresponding materials
• Effectively leads a cross-functional team in the planning and execution of large projects. The team may include company employees from various internal departments as well as outside contractors and engineering firms. Construction Engineer must establish and drive clear accountabilities for all outside vendors and create an environment that enables high performance
• Ability to drive vendors to complete projects on time and meet aggressive timelines. Must be able to prioritize a heavy workload and stay flexible on meeting internal schedules
• Leads the solution deployment. Covering everything from the network architecture, construction methodologies, material selection, acquisition and handling, field installation activities, project acceptance activities, customer and operational hand-over activities
• Responsible for in-scope, on schedule, on budget delivery.  Establishes the appropriate project team structure, reporting and metrics to measure, monitor performance against plan reporting frequent status updates to internal stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead and positively motivate cross-functional teams of engineers, construction managers, contractors and consulting employees to successful completion of such projects

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or 5 plus years of relevant job experience
• A knowledge base full of OSP Engineering standards and practices along with all forms of Outside Plant (OSP) construction (e.g. proper boring and trenching, fiber pulling in duct, including overpulling, general Telecommunications Aerial and Underground construction standards)
• Experience with civil engineering and construction for site development
• Personal experience in the full life cycle of OSP and/or Civil Projects (e.g. estimating, engineering, permitting and constructing)
• Strong computer skills with emphasis using Microsoft Word, Excel and Project as well as a variety of mapping programs
• Positive and professional attitude
• Experience in strategic customer relationship management
• Proven results in building strong peer level relationships-coordination and alignment with the managers who will ultimately operate the network is considered imperative to overall success of these projects
• Strong general business acumen
• Exceptional organizational, prioritization and written/verbal communication skills
• Proven creative problem solver
• Experience in OSP operations, administration, and maintenance
• The principles and practices behind Fiber Network Management (e.g. route planning, fiber assignments, capacity management, fiber types, splicing requirements, testing requirements, and power requirements)