Technical Telecom Project Manager HIRING ASAP

TEKsystems

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The role is primarily project management, coordinating the installation of telecom equipment like racks, cabinets, routers, and cards. Responsibilities include coordinating site surveys, understanding job scope (e.g., cooling/power requirements for installations), and identifying issues with telecom components and infrastructure. The individual will not perform engineering tasks but must understand power, space, and cooling, escalating issues to the engineering team rather than fixing them. They must be able to interpret detailed engineering specifications and communicate them effectively. The work will take place in various environments, including enterprise data centers, central offices, and mobile switching centers.

Requirements

Project management
Installation verification
Troubleshooting
PMP certification
Understand power, space, and cooling
Interpret detailed engineering specifications

Nice To Haves

Engineering details will include but not be limited to project-specific installation instructions, engineering database (ICON, CCP) updates, equipment configurations, card/port assignments/requirements, power mapping, cable running lists, floor space and rack placement, and detailed Bill of Material (BOM).

Responsibilities

Coordinate site surveys.
Understand job scope, including cooling/power requirements for installations.
Identify issues with telecom components and infrastructure.
Interpret detailed engineering specifications and communicate them effectively.
Create required Shopping carts or Telephone Equipment Orders (TEOs) to drive purchase of required equipment and services.
Create Project Supplements as required for appropriate financial budget management of build initiatives.
Coordinate and drive Engineering issues to resolution.
Manage multiple Capacity Creation Requests for new hardware deployments, reconfigurations, decommissions, and First Office Application (FOA) projects.
Negotiate and coordinate overall project schedules for Engineering activities, Construction start and completion dates.
Accurately identify, monitor, report, escalate, and resolve technical issues encountered throughout the build process.
Maintain excellent communication with Project Manager, Functional Team Members and Direct Management to ensure early identification of issues and timely reporting of status.
Interface with Operations and other Implementation organizations in performing site surveys to obtain critical site specific pre-engineering data prior to the build, as well as post installation redlines and end of job audits.
Negotiate, coordinate, and drive/track completion of project milestones with all appropriate stakeholders, to include third party turf vendors.
Facilitate and maintain relationships with multiple service vendors, including pricing compliance, standards creation and compliance, and conducting quality reviews – to include follow up remediation as appropriate and periodic performance reviews.