OSP Inspection Specialist

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 Inspection Specialist to be responsible for the evaluation, development, planning, and construction of new and overbuild long haul routes in the central portion of the US and Canada utilizing a small but effective team of project managers. The OSP Inspection Specialist will provide increased inspection and construction management support for LH projects. This typically includes the construction kickoff phase, close out phase and during recovery or expedite phases

Responsibilities:

• In person field training of all new and existing Zayo inspectors to facilitate consistent quality, deliverables, expectations and procedures across all LH projects.

• Collaborate with Inspectors, PM’s and Local Ops to maintain and develop best practices, procedures and specs.

• Evaluate field resources and production rates, assist Project Managers in developing recovery or expedite plans as needed.

• Travel as needed to provide increased inspection and construction management support for LH projects. This typically includes the construction kickoff phase, close out phase and during recovery or expedite phases.

• Act as a subject matter expert, assisting PMs and Inspectors in clearing roadblocks to construction.

• Attend contractor meetings to ensure Zayo specs and deliverables are understood.

• Meet with land owners, jurisdictional representatives or utility owners to clear any issues.

• Perform route drive outs during the Feasibility and Engineering phases to vet constructability concerns.

• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks.

• Review daily inspection logs and pictures to ensure inspector expectations are being met.

• Review project redlines as needed and approve for billing.

• 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.

• Coordinate and collaborate with the OSP teams within the regions to ensure alignment between long haul projects and local objectives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred, preferably in Engineering or other related technical field, or equivalent work experience. Business degree/acumen a plus.

• Minimum of three (3) years experience installing, testing or turning up a variety of telecommunications equipment including SONet, TDM, DWDM, and IP.

• Minimum of five (5) years in the telecommunications industry with outside plant, fiber optics, telecommunication architectures, optical transport equipment, and project management experience.

• Familiarity with all types of outside plant construction methods and best practices.

• Familiar with all facets of OSP management, including quoting, construction, production and delivery.

• Experience supporting large capital projects.

• Well rounded specialists will be expected to have an understanding of telecommunications standards (i.e. ITU, IEEE, NEBS) as well as possessing strong analytical, technical and customer skills while effectively multi-tasking and if needed doing so in a self reliant manner by performing the following duties personally or though subordinates supervisors and staff members.

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as OSHA/Company safety rules, MSDS, MOP’s, process and procedure documents as well as vendor documentation related to equipment owned by the company.

• Ability to write routine reports, properly fill out documentation such as site surveys and audit reports as well as effectively communicate with customers, management, peers and contractors as well as other members of the organization.

• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations as well as possessing deductive reasoning skills utilized to improve customer experience and network performance.

• Able to work well with internal and external peers (Carrier/Vendor peers) on daily tasks and responsibilities towards a common goal, ability to resolve minor conflicts with industry peers, internal peers or customers without management intervention being necessary.

• Ability to cover various work assignments during a variety of work hours to include day and night time activities. Specialist needs to also be willing to commit to long hours of work when necessary to reach company goals or objectives. Occasional, overnight travel will be required as necessary. 

• This position will require travel as necessary to support the projects assigned (15-50% estimated).  This could entail periods of significant travel at critical times for the project.

• Employee must be approved to work in the United States.

Estimated Base Salary Range: $56,300 - $75,050 USD/annually.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.

Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.