Position Title: Lead Fiber Designer
Location: Overland Park, KS
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire
Overview:
We are looking for a Lead Fiber Designer in Overland Park, KS, to oversee fiber design projects, ensuring timely completion and high-quality outcomes. This role requires leadership in supervising designers, providing feedback, and implementing process improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
Utilize QGIS, ArcGIS, and other GIS tools to create FTTX designs.
Learn and implement new tools and methods to support cross-functional work across multiple markets.
Analyze network demand point data to create effective fiber designs.
Provide CAD support for fiber systems, including permit plan and profile drawings, construction drawings, and conduit designs.
Review permitting prints and provide feedback to minimize costly or challenging changes.
Communicate effectively within projects, adhering to jurisdictional requirements.
Maintain robust quality control/assurance processes, including validation checks and QA/QC of fiber designs.
Design Fiber to the Home (FTTH), backhaul/transport fiber routes, Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU), distribution/feeder designs using provided software and methods.
Perform fiber splicing during the design phase within GIS or software programs.
Understand easements, right-of-ways, aerial plant, and buried plant to support the design process.
Read and interpret maps, plats, as-builts, construction drawings, and utility records.
Perform quality assurance on other designers' work with minimal guidance.
Display an in-depth understanding of fiber architecture across multiple markets.
Take ownership of special projects with limited supervision.
Support the Lead Designer and/or Manager in training new hires or lower-level designers.
Ensure the timely completion and delivery of projects.
Supervise and provide performance feedback to designers.
Recommend process improvements and identify training opportunities.
Train and develop new hires or lower-level designers, including creating training materials.
Perform final quality assurance checks on work produced by lower-level and senior designers with limited to no guidance on fundamentals.
Independently design across multiple markets, understanding all required design parameters.
Qualifications:
2-4 years of related GIS and telecom records experience.
4 or more years of telecom experience with distributed split networks, greenfield, brownfield, and splicing/fiber counts.
1 or more years of experience with centralized split networks.
1 or more years in a leadership role.