Manager, Project Management

At Lightspeed Construction Group, we take a people-first approach to construction. We know communications infrastructure construction isn’t just about fiber and towers. It’s about collaboration and honesty. At Lightspeed, a Full Circle Fiber Partners company, we bring more than steel toes and hard hats to the job site – we bring teamwork and integrity, and we do everything with a mindset of safety. Just as a well-placed network connects a community, a well-organized team powers all projects to success. Service excellence, pioneering experience, and a passion for what we do – that’s Lightspeed.

Lightspeed is a dynamic organization of diverse, customer-focused people committed to our Core Values: Service Excellence, Accountability, Safety, Integrity, Fairness and Mutual Respect. We are looking for motivated and professional individuals to grow with our team. Lightspeed offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, matching 401K and more.

Manager, Project Management (Clearwater, FL)

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POSITION OVERVIEW

The Manager of Project Management performs an integral role within the day-to-day scheduling, task coordination, reporting, escalation, and triage activities related to all OSP construction related activities across Lightspeed Construction Group.

The manager of project management will be the primary point of contact for project management activities and associated staff supporting our construction and maintenance activities. This is a high-visibility role working alongside existing Lightspeed senior management as well as our customer’s field and network teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to dispersed project managers and coordinators across the organization, supporting both project/customer programs, as well as corporate initiatives within Lightspeed.
• Support development of ongoing project production reporting, employing typical project management process/methodologies such as resource allocation, Gannt charts/Kanban, and RAID logs.
• Support periodic project/program status meetings, tactical readouts, and impromptu collaborative discovery/problem solving sessions.
• Act as the official custodian of project/program status; source of truth.
• Support the development of project intake, management, and disposition processes across the organization.
• Partner with internal peer teams in supporting project/business initiatives.
• Develop daily, monthly, and quarterly performance reporting metrics that illustrate quantitative project success and highlight areas for improvement.
• Manage, mentor/coach junior members of the team in project management process, procedures, and best practices.

The ideal candidate will possess the ability to communicate effectively across functional areas and throughout all levels in the organization, including senior customer staff. Ability to understand the motivating factors of various constituencies (internal – cross-functional and external – customers/partners) and establish a working cadence in a manner that motivates all parties appropriately.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior management experience leading project managers/coordinators, in a telecommunications/cable/MSO or similar environment.
• Prior experience in outside plant construction and/or network engineering.
• Prior experience in project accounting/project financial performance.
• Prior experience/knowledge in PMBOK methodology and processes.
• PgMP, PMP, Prince2 or similar certification is a plus, though not required.
• Strategic thinking with strong analytical skills.
• Ability to operate effectively across matrix organizations.
• Verifiable relationship management skills.
• Strong initiative, comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to move outside of one’s comfort zone.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in role, with Telecom/Cable/MSO or similar industry environment.
• Above average skill level with MS Office suite of tools to such as, excel, word, MS project and MS Teams.

· Prior production experience using MS Project or other project management/efficiency tools such as JIRA, Confluence or similar is a plus.

PERSONAL STYLE

The ideal candidate will have high energy, and a passion for project delivery and execution. The ideal candidate will enjoy a diverse set of challenges to include IT/Systems, customer management, construction activities, and reporting/metrics.

Additional Personal Attributes:

• Leader while being team player
• Direct and decisive while leveraging consensus management
• Ability to collaborate across all levels of an organization
• Highly developed influencing skills
• Cool-headed in tense, time sensitive delivery environments
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Data first mindset – objective results
• Exceptional inter-personal and communication skills. (Both written and spoken)

THE ENVIRONMENT

The ideal candidate must be comfortable working in fast changing, start-up environment where resources are optimized around producing measurable results. A heavy reliance upon industry partners and contingent resources is a key aspect of this role. The role will be predominately office based with opportunities for hybrid work schedules.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information systems or related discipline or equivalent work experience.

ABOUT US

Lightspeed Construction Group, LLC is a premier telecommunications construction and infrastructure provider, enabling the nation’s largest Cable, Telecom, and Electric Co-ops, in providing next generation fiber optic and communications distribution networks.

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with this position. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $41,164.86 – $70,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Clearwater, FL 33760: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Project management: 3 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Clearwater, FL 33760