Aerial Pole Engineering SME

Aerial Pole Engineering SME
Perm Worker (will do 90-day probation)
$83,200 - $94,000 (let’s not start at the top of the range)
Wilkes Barre/Scranton PA Market

• Oversees all make-ready engineering projects and crews.
• Works with various power companies, Client staff, general contractors, and vendors on a regular basis.
• Coordinates inspections, documents and maintains foundational trackers for each project based on project needs.
• Provides quality assurance on projects while maintaining project schedules and budgets while providing continuous engineering solutions

• Work with the local utility companies and market leads to a strategy to accelerate client’s construction timelines.
• Specifically, work to accelerate aerial makeready applications and track applications through make ready engineering and construction to ensure alignment with client’s build plan.
• Onboard strategic partners to augment the utility company’s capacity.
• Perform virtual ride-outs with the local utilities to maximize one touch make-ready and minimize complex make-ready impact to timelines and costs.
• Perform pre-construction field inspection to ensure completion of make-ready and existing aerial facilities owned by various power companies
• Verify utility measurements on existing utility poles to prepare pole attachment applications for submission to governing utilities
• Coordinate with various power and communications entities to devise a plan that will allow Client to construct facilities in a cost effective, efficient, and timely manner
• Provide field information to the permitting offices to ensure permits and applications required for make ready and construction are filed accurately and timely
• Provide regular project status reports to the Project and Construction Managers and Community Liaisons including daily and weekly status reports
• Responsible for coordinating with others to ensure the completion of make-ready work of existing aerial facilities owned by various power, telephone, and CATV companies
• Forecast material needs and budgets; track all invoices associated with the completion of the make-ready work; monitor cost controls for the company and client
• Ensure make-ready invoices are accurate and work invoiced is complete, specifications are met, and the material usage is correct
• Monitor schedules and timeline production noting possible delays and addressing those proactively
• Ensure all easement and ROW permits received when poles fall outside of existing easement or ROW
• Establish and maintain crucial relationships both internally within project teams and externally with vendors, power companies, and clients
• Drive overall project goals, production, quality, and schedule with the MRE Team
• Accurately forecast monthly Make Ready production and submissions and communicate any variances throughout the month
• Plan, facilitate, and document meetings with Power company, internal make ready teams, and contractors
• Escalate and report on obstacles and potential issues along with proposed solutions to senior and project management, construction teams, and clients as appropriate
• Accurately coordinate, update, and maintain the Make Ready Resource and project data trackers at all times
• Develop, train, and coach Client team leads, supervisors, and engineers
• Communicate all changes to processes or general make ready approaches with the team and contractor
• Other projects or duties as assigned

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• 5 plus years of telecommunication network experience required
• Fundamental understanding of network architecture required; Experience working for an electric utility and/or with utility pole owners is preferred
• Must be able to read, interpret
  , and extrapolate aerial…