Key Responsibilities & Core Duties

Strategic Leadership & Interconnect Program Management

• Drive Market Connectivity: Leading the budgeting, strategy, and execution for all RAN (Radio Access Network) interconnect solutions across the market, including Microwave upgrades, fiber conversions, and network uplifts.

• Team & Vendor Oversight: Directing a high-performing team of engineers, vendors, partners, and contractors to ensure seamless network connectivity, strong vendor management, and compliance with company standards.

• Capital & Program Management: Overseeing contract submissions, business cases, RFPs, Fiber Access Build management, and integration with the 1ERP program.

Network Capacity, Fiber & Operations Execution

• Circuit & Fiber Delivery: Coordinating dark fiber and Ethernet Backhaul (EBH) installations between vendors and operations personnel. Tracking progress, communicating status, and escalating issues to ensure on-time delivery.

• Capacity & Trend Planning: Maintaining EBH capacity across assigned cell sites to meet customer demand while optimizing costs. Preparing and distributing weekly capacity reports featuring trended data over time.

• Network Optimization & Remediation: Proactively identifying and replacing problematic EBH solutions with reliable, cost-effective alternatives. Maintaining path, switch, geographic, and vendor metrics to devise optimal routing schemes that prevent service degradation.

Process Improvement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Standards & Documentation: Maintaining an accurate circuit inventory, uphold key performance indicators (KPIs), and producing thorough network documentation in accordance with corporate standards and practices.

• Tool & Process Development: Partnering with IT/NS to drive automated tool improvements. Establishing clear Methods and Procedures (M&Ps) for operations and vendor teams to standardize changes.

• Cross-Functional Communication: Crafting clear, effective communications for peer groups regarding critical network migrations, system updates, and future enhancements (such as eNSE migrations).

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience in managing teams.

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

• A valid driver's license.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Self-motivated and ability to learn technical concepts quickly.

• Enthusiasm for technology and networking.

• CND/Granite/XNG/GIS Experience.

• Disaster recovery.

• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment and adapt to changes.

• Effective persuasion skills, the ability to work effectively at the highest levels of the organization and display highly effective networking and influencing skills.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.