OSP Field Supervisor - Laredo, TX
About The Position
The OSP Field Supervisor is responsible for ensuring Metronet’s network construction is completed safely and in accordance with required standards and specifications. The role works directly in the field, inspecting construction, overseeing aerial and underground crews, and serving as a Metronet representative in the community. The supervisor responds promptly to neighborhood complaints and works to resolve them. The position requires maintaining familiarity with construction specifications and safety practices, conducting inspections and audits, managing work orders and budgets, investigating utility strikes, and identifying contractor training needs. The supervisor may retrain contractors or terminate them when necessary.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED, or three to five years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Related quality-control and/or outside aerial plant construction experience.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
- Ability to understand and carry out instructions provided in written, oral, or diagram form using common sense.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to walk long distances over potentially uneven or less-than-ideal ground conditions each day with contractors.
- Ability to work in all temperatures, climates, and weather conditions while maintaining safe work-zone practices.
- Excellent communication and diplomacy skills.
- Commitment to quality and safety.
- Ability to distinguish general-audience information from confidential information and maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize urgent or important work.
- Valid driver’s license and a clean driving record, with no DUIs or serious traffic violations.
Responsibilities
- Maintain an understanding of Metronet’s specifications, standard practices, and safety requirements.
- Conduct walkouts and inspect aerial fiber cable placement on poles and splice points, along with underground conduit and handhole placement, for quality and compliance with technical and construction specifications.
- Approve completed unitized aerial work that meets Metronet’s standards.
- Manage the OSP Construction Tracker.
- Monitor the approved budget for assigned work orders.
- Respond to utility strikes, investigate them, and complete documentation within 24 hours; retrain the contractor or terminate them if necessary.
- Conduct weekly audits of each contractor’s safety, construction, and quality practices.
- Identify contractor training needs and arrange training.
- Ensure aerial line contractors hold weekly safety and communications tailgate meetings with employees, and assist with scheduling periodic damage-prevention safety meetings in the language employees are most fluent in.
- Respond quickly to neighborhood complaints and work to resolve issues.
- Manage and oversee aerial and/or underground construction crews.
Benefits
- Company pays 80% of medical premiums.
- Company-paid disability insurance.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- 401(k) company match.
- Discounted services within Metronet coverage areas.
- Competitive total compensation package.
- Locally owned, friendly, and fun atmosphere.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
