Cable Placement Manager

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The Cable Placement Manager is responsible for leading Aquila Corporation’s underground fiber and cable-placement operations. This position manages field crews, production, scheduling, safety, equipment readiness, quality control, documentation, and project completion. The manager must possess strong hands-on knowledge of underground fiber placement and be capable of training, troubleshooting, and directing crews in the field.

Advanced working knowledge of Larson cable/fiber placement trailers, Hurricane fiber blowers, and other pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical fiber-placement applications is a key requirement of this leadership position.

• Direct, supervise, schedule, and support underground cable-placement crews across assigned projects.
• Establish daily and weekly production plans and ensure crews understand routes, footage, assignments, priorities, and completion expectations.
• Conduct morning planning and field coordination to verify manpower, trucks, trailers, equipment, materials, fiber reels, and tooling are ready before deployment.
• Monitor crew productivity and completion rates and address performance issues, delays, or recurring deficiencies.
• Provide hands-on field leadership, technical guidance, coaching, and training to technicians and crew leads.
• Coordinate with project managers, construction managers, customers, subcontractors, splicing teams, drilling crews, and other OSP personnel.
• Maintain professional communication with customers, municipalities, inspectors, property owners, utility representatives, and project stakeholders.
• Ensure crews maintain clean, organized, professional jobsites and protect customer and company assets.

• Oversee underground fiber installation through conduit, innerduct, multi-duct, handholes, vaults, pedestals, cabinets, and splice locations.
• Demonstrate expert-level understanding of Larson cable/fiber placement trailer setup, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of Hurricane fiber blower setup, operation, pressure management, feed speed, pushing force, and troubleshooting.
• Direct the use of other pneumatic fiber blowers, mechanical cable pushers, hydraulic placement equipment, winches, and conventional cable-pulling applications.
• Evaluate conduit size, cable type, route length, elevation, bends, field conditions, and project specifications to determine the proper placement method.
• Ensure cable bend-radius, pulling-tension, pushing-force, air-pressure, and manufacturer requirements are followed.
• Oversee fiber reel handling, staging, payout, reel changes, cable slack, coil management, and cable protection.
• Ensure conduit is properly rodded, proofed, mandreled, cleaned, lubricated, and prepared before placement.
• Diagnose blocked, crushed, flooded, damaged, or otherwise compromised conduit and develop an appropriate field solution or escalation plan.
• Support and coordinate service-drop placement, drop-bury operations, conduit installation, directional drilling, and other underground construction activities when required.

• Read, interpret, and verify OSP construction prints, fiber routes, maps, conduit assignments, fiber counts, reel assignments, and project specifications.
• Plan cable-placement sequences to maximize production while minimizing unnecessary reel…