Vacancy Manager Field Plant Facilities

Responsibilities

• Manage and administer the engineering and construction activities to provide an efficient operation to provide quality service in a timely manner.
• Prepare plans and specifications on all projects within the region to support the development of the capital construction budget.
• Participate in the process of negotiating and or bidding of projects with vendors/contractors for the construction/installation of plant facilities.
• Provide Plant Facilities engineers guidelines and direction on designs and plans to evaluate and implement new services, technologies, and products within established standards.
• Manage and supervise the development and maintenance of engineering and construction cost analysis to provide the basis for engineering estimates and contract awards on a Area level.
• Ensure the plans and specifications created by Plant Facilities support approved business strategies and provide a platform that is scaleable and migratable to support future service requirements.
• Provide recommendations for necessary training for engineering staff.
• Ensure Century System Practices are communicated and adhered to.
• Stay abreast of industry issues and technologies through continuing education and actively participate in state and local industry committees/forums.
• Manage and supervise staff by appraising performance, training, administering salaries, and communicating department objectives.
• Work with the Region/Area staff in the operations of the Area to achieve established Telephone Group objectives.
• Provide assistance to Telephone Group business units with the evaluation of their budget and plant addition requirements.
• Serves as standards representative for Plant Facilities at the Area level.
• Prepare and monitor FEV and operating budgets for the Area Plant Facilities department.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field or the equivalent in training and experience.
• Minimum 7-9 years inside & outside plant experience in telecommunications with in-depth knowledge of ISP/OSP equipment and designs or the equivalent in training and experience.
• Leadership and communications skills to direct and coach employees towards departmental goals.
• Incumbent must be self-motivated.
• Well-defined inter-personal skills with ability to positively interact with company personnel, as well as, external contacts.
• Comprehensive and knowledge of network topologies spanning the switching, access, and transport portions of the network, including working knowledge of the features, functions and applications defined in Bellcore documents TR-057, TR-909, TR-303, and TR-253.
• Working knowledge of regulatory rules on a national and state level.
• Perform analysis and comparisons of technical information.
• Prepare written and oral reports regarding capital construction requirements and associated engineering and construction issues
• Working knowledge of and the ability to perform economic analysis including internal rate of return analysis, discounted payback period, net present value, profit index, buy-vs.-lease analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and breakeven analysis.
• General understanding of the Advanced Intelligent Network, SS7 Network, and other nontraditional local exchange network technologies.
• Proficient in use of a personal computer and related software such as word processing, spreadsheets and databases.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Detailed working knowledge of packet switching, X.25 and X.75 protocols, IEEE 802.X protocols, OSI reference model, frame relay, SMDS, and ATM switching.
• Detailed understanding of digital switching topics such as space division switching, time division switching, blocking probability functions, and multistage switching.
• Understand digital transmission topics such as PAM, PCM, Nyquist theorem, line coding, framing techniques and time division multiplexing.
• Working knowledge of the SS7 protocol, CCS network architecture, trunk signaling requirements as specified in Bellcore TR-394 and TR-317, function of the LIDB service, operation of the 800-database service, is required.
• Working knowledge of the basic components of the network, encompassing the disciplines of switching, access and transport.

Req. Code            : 14-24651
Division/Department  : Engineering
Open Date            : 2008-11-12 00:00:00
Date Required        : 2008-12-24
Categories           : Engineers / Technicians
Relocation Costs Paid: Full
Preferred Degree     : Bachelors

All internal applicants must apply online through the CenturyTel intranet and submit a signed internal application to the Human Resources Department located in Jacksonville, AR. To be considered for any position all required documents must be properly completed and received by the designated HR office by the posting end date.

It is the responsibility of the respondent to prove his/her qualifications for the position for which they are responding.

CenturyTel requires pre-employment drug testing.

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