OSP Operations Specialist - Construction & Splicing - Austin TX

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking an OSP Operations Specialist - focused on Construction & Splicing to be responsible for end to end splicing, testing and delivery of metro and long haul customer fiber optic routes in the Texas markets (primarily Austin) in coordination with Fiber Engineering, Construction, Service Delivery and Financial teams.

Please note:

**The team will only consider candidates that reside in the Austin TX area.

Responsibilities:

• Daily management of splicing vendors across multiple projects to expedite the splicing and testing of fiber optic metro and long haul routes.

• Assess and validate requirements (routing, fiber counts, hut spacing, etc.) for new route planning to ensure route objectives are clearly defined and meet stakeholder requirements.

• Coordinates access to customer and network points of presence for fiber splicing and testing vendors.

• Provides specialized telecommunications technical expertise related to fiber optic splicing & testing.

• Ability and willingness to participate in on call schedule to respond to network outages and emergency restoration activities.

• Collaborates with internal project managers to refine project schedules and budgets. Actively manage schedule and budget throughout project execution.

• Provides direct interface with customers, subcontractors, jurisdictional authorities and interoffice personnel. Supports customer meetings as necessary.

• Oversees procurement of equipment and materials required for project implementation. Actively monitor material stock and order lead times to negate material delays.

• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and develop contingency plans.

• Conduct construction resource planning to ensure project objectives are met.

• Develop RFPs for the splicing & testing of routes. Manage the RFP process and negotiate with bidders to ensure the lowest qualified awards are made. Diligently manage the contract terms throughout the life of each contract.

• Provide project-level reporting including regular updates to our key customers.

• Ensure routes are delivered on time, on budget and as per construction standards.

• Deliver splicing documents to the support teams in a timely manner to ensure route is properly documented.

• Review and approve testing packages and project documentation for consistent delivery to customers.

• Coordinate and collaborate with the OSP …