Program Director - OSP

If being a part of a world-class organization that operates in some of the most advanced technological environments around the world sounds like a dream job, Network Connex might be the right fit for you! You'll be part of a team working together to solve customer problems every day, with compensation and benefits that are an investment in your career, financial future, and overall well-being.

In addition to competitive base pay, Network Connex offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your physical, mental, and financial health you can begin participating in our programs on the first of the month following your start date.

Join our Vanguard 401(k) plan, with immediate vesting and a generous company match to help you build long-term financial security. Our team also enjoys 10 paid company holidays, a generous PTO accrual schedule, and access to discounts on useful products and services.

Network Connex is seeking a hands-on Program Director to lead a large-scale turnkey fiber infrastructure program. This role will be responsible for overall program execution from engineering through permitting, materials, construction, ILA coordination, testing, closeout, and customer acceptance. The successful candidate must be a practical operator who can lead at scale while staying close enough to the details to identify issues early and drive them to resolution.

The Program Director will serve as the single point of accountability for program performance and will lead a cross-functional delivery model that includes engineering, project management, field operations, scheduling, safety, quality, materials, subcontractor management, document control, and customer reporting.

The Program Director will build and manage the operating rhythm required to deliver multiple routes and work streams in parallel. The successful candidate will bring strong program governance, disciplined project controls, executive-level customer communication, and practical field execution experience in telecom, OSP, ILA, or utility infrastructure.

This is not a passive oversight role. The Program Director must have a true doer mindset and be comfortable moving between executive-level customer communication and detailed execution management, including schedule recovery, resource alignment, engineering-to-construction handoff, field coordination, material constraints, testing, closeout, and customer acceptance.

• Lead the full turnkey program delivery structure across engineering, OSP, ILA, materials, permitting, construction, testing, closeout, and acceptance.
• Establish and manage the program cadence, including executive reviews, customer updates, internal operating meetings, route reviews, and escalation forums.
• Provide clear ownership of schedule, budget, quality, safety, risk, reporting, customer decisions, and milestone performance.
• Create a program culture focused on accountability, urgency, transparency, and no-surprises communication.
• Personally engage in problem-solving where needed to remove roadblocks, drive decisions, and keep routes, resources, and deliverables moving.

• Coordinate engineering release, constructability review, permitting readiness, material availability, and construction start planning.
• Ensure engineering, field, materials, testing, and closeout teams are aligned before routes are released to construction.
• Manage interface points between design, permitting, ROW/access, field execution, splicing/testing, ILA construction, and final turnover.

• Maintain a master program schedule with route-level milestones, dependencies, look-ahead planning, and recovery actions.
• Drive production reporting tied to field progress, constraints, crew loading, material readiness, and customer-controlled decisions.
• Manage risk registers, issue logs, change logs, decision logs, action trackers, and milestone acceptance trackers.

• Serve as the senior day-to-day customer-facing leader for the program.
• Communicate program status,…