Fiber Network Manager, Commercial

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Fiber Network Manager, Commercial

Open to other East Coast Locations:
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland

The Company

Plenary Americas is a leading specialized developer of, and equity investor in, long-term Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects. Since its inception in 2005, we have built a portfolio of 60 projects and more than USD $23.5 billion / CAD $30.3 billion in North American assets under management. We are determined in our approach to deliver first-class infrastructure, build the right delivery solutions for the projects we work on and inspire people with our vision for transformational spaces.

Why work for Plenary?

Recognized as a Great Place to Work in the US and Canada, we pride ourselves on our workplace culture. Our focus is on empowering our employees, driving results, building strong camaraderie, and celebrating our wins as a team. Our people and our workplace culture are our driving forces to bring infrastructure to life. Learn more about us by visiting

The Role

The Fiber Network Manager will play a crucial role in ensuring that the fiber network and related facilities maintain accuracy, resilience, and capacity over time. They will play an important role in defining field data capture processes that will confirm optimal design, enable quality control and assurance, and support robustness and usability of the network data in the long term. They will also help define and manage the relationships (with partners, authorities, the Network Operations Center (NOC), contractors, and customers) that support efficient design/build projects, assist with routine and emergency maintenance, and enable accurate estimating and reporting of Plenary Broadband Infrastructure (PBI) networks.

PBI is a consortium led by Plenary Americas and Tikehau Star Infra. The company owns, develops, operates, and commercializes middle-mile fiber routes for hyperscalers, telecom carriers, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) providers and data center operators, including unique routes along the entire Pennsylvania Turnpike Right-of-Way (ROW) and major roadways on the North Carolina DOT and Georgia DOT interstate highway systems.

PBI operates, maintains, and commercializes a network on the highway right of ways that includes underground fiber, huts for equipment colocation, lateral fiber cables on and off the right of way, dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment, and colocations in data centers.

PBI is hiring a Fiber Network Manager to support field operations, pre-sales engineering, and operations. This is a critical role supporting a small, multi-disciplined PBI team. This is a remote role located within the US East Coast Region, that requires visits to locations within Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia to meet with stakeholders, collect and monitor field data, and advise on best practices for network deployment and operations.

Responsibilities

• FMS & Records Management:
• Ensure accurate records of fiber routes, splicing, slack storage, Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) results, terminations, assignments (customer contracts, reservations), status (fiber health) and utilization (capacity constraints) in PBI Fiber’s Fiber Management System (FMS) as well as various off-the-shelf (OTS) and ESRI-based FMS applications owned by our Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and maintained by PBI Fiber.
• Support and manage the flow of information related to construction updates, redlines, splicing diagrams, trace files, photos, quality reports, and all other document sharing that typically occurs during construction activities.
• Manage Quality Assurance and Quality Control procedures and documentation for both the company’s facilities and Outside Plant (OSP) infrastructure as well as for our partner’s facilities and OSP…