Network Construction Manager

Position Summary: Network Construction Manager (T4)

Company Summary

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

Although you'll be hired as a Crown Castle employee, your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to an acquiring company in the future. For more information, please visit:

ABOUT THE ROLE

The A&E Specialist is responsible for the overall management and quality of producing A&E construction drawings and other deliverables associated with A&E products. This includes the managing of the construction drawing product for multiple customers, according to mutually agreed upon scopes of work, project timeline, policies, jurisdictional requirements, and processes. Responsibilities also include ordering, forecasting, reviewing, redlining, quality assurance and actualization of all construction drawing tasks created for new small cells, collocations, and amendments. Communication throughout the project is expected to ensure A&E deliverables are completed on-time in accordance with customer expectations.

Essential Job Functions

• Understanding of construction drawings, pole loading analyses, surveys in the public Right of Way and jurisdictional requirement details.
• Construction drawing production management by communicating requirements for effective construction drawing completion to external vendors. Responsibilities include managing the ordering of construction drawing from vendors, manage drawing reviews, manage changes/revisions, and ensure completed construction drawings match scope of work and meet jurisdictional requirements.
• Identify, communicate and drive jurisdictional approval requirements for installations as project scope defines.
• Communicate scope of work changes to appropriate stakeholders throughout the construction drawing process.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to solve issues especially in times of high volumes of work to deadlines and with accuracy.
• Ability to hold vendors accountable to cycle times, work quality, agreed upon deliverables and drive to resolution of design issues as they
• Ability to provide direction to customers and jurisdictions in a customer service manner with a strong problem solving approach.
• Communication of project costs and any issues that could impact project financials or timelines, including out of scope reimbursables, and ensure completed deliverables are billed to the customer per the terms of the agreed upon scope of work.
• Participation in internal & external kick off as needed, and interaction with carrier representatives to appropriately execute the construction drawing tasks.
• Management and updates to all forecasts for construction drawing tasks.
• Required to use Crown Castle systems for all task flow activity and ensure updated consistently.
• Upload/send A&E deliverables to appropriate customer databases as
• A&E site walk coordination, as
• Facilitate and identify template changes and assist standards team when input is needed.
• Function as main point of contact for any A&E items.

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• Engineering Background preferred

Experience/Minimum Requirements

• Two (2) + years of A&E drawing and/or small cell construction experience
• Project management experience
• Strong ability to read and understand engineering drawings
• Construction telecom and permitting process experience a plus
• Preferred knowledge of telecommunications/wireless project management, asset management and / or site acquisition procedures, including regulatory and permitting process
• An in-depth knowledge of construction drawing management and the ability to understand jurisdictional requirements

Other Skills/Abilities

• Ability to manage multiple vendors / projects
• Strong negotiation and organizational skills
• Ability to direct the diagnosis of workflow problems, critical paths and institute remedies
• Customer service orientation with a strong problem-solving approach
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to clearly communicate across multiple service groups to both internal and external customers

Organizational Relationship

Reports to: Fiber Engineering Manager

Where You Will Work
Hybrid: This role falls into our hybrid work model, which is 2-days work from home (Monday and Friday) and 3-days in the office (Tuesday through Thursday) to optimize collaboration, relationship building and key stakeholder engagement and may require some travel as needed.

YOUR COMPANY BENEFITS
At Crown Castle, we do our best to ensure you have access to the resources you need to live a healthy and happy life no matter where you are in life. Our benefits are built around your individual needs, covering physical, mental, and financial health and designed to enhance your quality of life.

We are proud to offer a full suite of health and wealth benefits for you and your loved ones. Below are a few of the key highlights of the many benefits we provide.

• Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings