Fibre Planning Manager

JOB TITLE: Fibre Planning Manager

JOB LOCATION: NI (will be required to travel as & when required to work on GB contracts)

TERMS: Permanent, full time (Hybrid working with designated home & office days to be agreed)

THE JOB

Leading a team of operational planners in the day-to-day management of the Hyperfast Network across NI and GB. This includes Planning for additional capacity, designing new customer connections and responding to requests to move the network to meet private or public build schemes.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

• Reviewing completed build designs to assure the suitability of the network design for cost-efficient first-time customer connection.
• Provide leadership within the planning team with direct management of resource and skill levels within the team in order to meet its key customer and business KPI’s.
• Using a people faced approach to work collaboratively to overcome operational challenges and periods of flexible volumes.
• Ensuring the team deliver high quality design packs to Installation Contract Partners to meet the SLA and Timescales.
• Responding to queries and information requests, at both a team and managerial level, from Operational teams and the Installation Contract Partners.
• Manage the third party wayleave process for new customer connections to the Hyperfast network.
• Responsibility of budgetary review, utilising the most cost effective solutions on all new customer connections and network Re-arrangement design works.
• Collaborating across both the planning and operational teams to design and operate efficient processes with the goal of minimising customers Time To Install.
• Ensure all designs meet both Fibrus and Openreach Design and PIA specifications and are fully compliant with Fibrus HSEQ policies.
• Support a team ethos that recognises individual skills and talents wit a strong focus on everyones continual growth and development
• Ensuring that requests from external parties for Network Re-arrangements on the Hyperfast Network are met and completed in accordance with SLA and with the correct level of cost control.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING?

• Proven people management and leadership experience working with multiskilled teams (3+ Years)
• Effective communication skills to ensure quality interaction with your team, the client and management
• Track record of delivering against customer driven metrics and/or SLA schedules
• Civils, Cabling and Network Activation experience coupled with good technical knowledge of fibre networks
• A working knowledge of Fibre PON networks specific to customer connections
• Experience of working to budgets and cost controls to drive value for money.
• Computer literate in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Capable of using GIS systems such as: ESRI Programmes (ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online), QGIS, AutoCAD, Google Earth, etc

Hyperfast are committed to building a diverse, talented and dedicated workforce.  We appreciate that you may not meet every single requirement listed but don’t let that discourage you.  If you have some of the experience we are seeking and offer a fantastic attitude, we’d love to see your application!

At Hyperfast we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. We are an equal opportunities employer and always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job, welcoming people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from women, under-represented genders, individuals with disabilities, and under-represented ethnicities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working – there is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.

All offers of employment with Hyperfast will be subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which may include all or some of the following: references, right to work, criminal record history, professional qualifications.

Fibrus Limited, Fibrus ISP, Hyperfast and Viberoptix, belong to the Infracapital group of companies. We will retain your information, for the purposes of recruitment, for a period of up to 12 months. We may also share your information with our partner organisations for the purposes of recruitment. Please email careers@fibrus.com if you do not wish us to retain your information or do not wish for us to share your information. 

At Fibrus, we put our people first! As award winners in Advancing Diversity in the Workplace at the 2023 Women in Business awards and having recently been awarded the Investors in People ‘We invest in People’ standard accreditation, we are proud to be a company who encourage colleagues to do and be their very best.

Our culture is focused on trust, collaboration, growth and flexibility. We invest in our people, offering colleagues benefits that improve their personal lives as well as their careers! So along with competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package, we also offer our colleagues benefits including mental health workshops, professional development support and private healthcare.

We also recognise the importance of supporting our colleagues with life changes and have comprehensive policies around menopause, mental health, pregnancy loss and leave for maternity, parental and adoption. As we continue to grow, you would be joining a team of dedicated and passionate people who work super hard every day to improve the lives of those in our own communities by transforming the digital infrastructure of Northern Ireland and Great Britain! We’re building something special at Fibrus, with our team at the very heart of it and we are excited to speak to potential colleagues who share our purpose!

To apply to join the Fibrus family, please do so online and our Recruitment team will be in contact with you once we’ve had a chance to have a look at your application. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for your interest in Fibrus. #Fibrus