Zayo Group is a leading provider of mission-critical bandwidth, supporting innovations that transform society. They are seeking a Technical Project Manager to oversee projects related to network performance, security, and monitoring, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery of initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain project plans based on groom migration and optimization initiatives
- Coordinate large project kickoff meetings; inter - regional coordination meetings, etc
- Perform daily PM operational tasks for the business, working across multiple internal and external teams
- Build, maintain, and report operational metrics for end-to-end milestone management
- Manage existing reports and dashboards
- Monitor project pipeline for additional optimization synergies with ongoing projects
- Update internal systems to forecast budget and prepare internal expense change orders
- Report weekly and quarterly metrics and deliverables
- Be able to report to management updates and modifications of any process changes to the existing planning, engineering or grooming process
- Communicate and coordinate plans and strategies with other functional areas including sales, product, engineering, procurement, network operations and field operations
- Provide cost and schedule analyses for projects
- Program manage the large project queue (project tracker)
- Assist in defining automation next steps to the existing engineering migration process, by working across multiple internal functional groups including Corporate IT, Fiber Solutions, Engineering, and Network Control Center
Requirements:
- Bachelors' degree in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or 5 years' of relevant telecommunications engineering experience
- Minimum of five (5) years project management experience required with network planning experience preferred
- Advanced knowledge of optical fiber technical specifications, testing, and link engineering fundamentals
- Familiarity with DWDM network architectures (i.e. FOADM/ROADM/PON/fixed and flex grid) and signal flow
- Advanced familiarity with telecommunications service protocol structure and testing (i.e. Ethernet/OTN/SONET/SDH/SAN)
- Familiarity/experience with the following network platforms: Ciena / Cyan / Nortel Infinera, Nokia, Juniper, Cisco, ADVA, Fujitsu
- Familiarity with Metasolv/M6 database is a plus
- Understanding of telemetry (DCN) network design, IP subnetting, and routing protocols (i.e. OSPF)
- Experience with data center and carrier hotel connectivity and telecommunications facility environments
- Proficiency in the MS Office suite of tools with emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint is required or similar Google G Suite tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication/negotiating skills required toward technical/non-technical audiences
- Ability to work with minimal supervision while being a constructive contributor to a team
- Effective time management skills and critical thinking
- Ability/willingness to operate in a fast-paced, demanding environment