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Joint Use Permitting Specialist (Jacksonville, FL or Remote)
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Job description
A Smarter Career Choice
Because the internet is now the heartbeat of our homes and an essential tool for business, it should run without interruption or stress. IQ Fiber was created to offer 100% fiber-optic high-speed internet, transparent pricing, and attentive customer service to deliver a Smarter internet experience. As part of our rapidly growing team, your contributions will directly impact our success. Your work matters here.
We're looking for energetic, collaborative, and customer-focused talent who can proactively move our business forward. In return, you'll find a place where your voice matters, where our team works hard and has fun. And, if you're like us, you'll know you've made a Smarter career choice.
This position is located in Jacksonville, FL. Remote candidates will be considered for those living greater than 50 miles from our Jacksonville location.
Position Summary:
As Joint Use & Permitting Specialist, you will coordinate with outside plant network engineering and construction partners to ensure all permits and pole applications are accurate, complete, and submitted on time. These submissions require approval from municipalities, pole owners, and other reviewing bodies to maintain IQ Fiber’s network construction schedule. You will keep detailed project plans, provide timely responses to inquiries from team members and senior leaders, and focus on tracking make-ready costs, work, timeframes, and pole release dates.
This position is crucial to the successful implementation of the IQ Fiber network build. You will have extensive knowledge of outside plant network construction and an understanding of permits required for both aerial and buried cable installations. Working closely with the design team and construction partners, you'll keep fiber-optic build projects on track by managing and expediting the permit process. You'll collaborate with engineers, architects, and design staff to ensure permit applications are complete and accurate, preventing costly delays.
Additionally, you will maintain a forward-looking approach, partnering with the Project Management team to forecast permitting needs 12 - 18 months ahead of construction.
Key Responsibilities:
Experience & Qualifications
IQ Fiber is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Because the internet is now the heartbeat of our homes and an essential tool for business, it should run without interruption or stress. IQ Fiber was created to offer 100% fiber-optic high-speed internet, transparent pricing, and attentive customer service to deliver a Smarter internet experience. As part of our rapidly growing team, your contributions will directly impact our success. Your work matters here.
We're looking for energetic, collaborative, and customer-focused talent who can proactively move our business forward. In return, you'll find a place where your voice matters, where our team works hard and has fun. And, if you're like us, you'll know you've made a Smarter career choice.
This position is located in Jacksonville, FL. Remote candidates will be considered for those living greater than 50 miles from our Jacksonville location.
Position Summary:
As Joint Use & Permitting Specialist, you will coordinate with outside plant network engineering and construction partners to ensure all permits and pole applications are accurate, complete, and submitted on time. These submissions require approval from municipalities, pole owners, and other reviewing bodies to maintain IQ Fiber’s network construction schedule. You will keep detailed project plans, provide timely responses to inquiries from team members and senior leaders, and focus on tracking make-ready costs, work, timeframes, and pole release dates.
This position is crucial to the successful implementation of the IQ Fiber network build. You will have extensive knowledge of outside plant network construction and an understanding of permits required for both aerial and buried cable installations. Working closely with the design team and construction partners, you'll keep fiber-optic build projects on track by managing and expediting the permit process. You'll collaborate with engineers, architects, and design staff to ensure permit applications are complete and accurate, preventing costly delays.
Additionally, you will maintain a forward-looking approach, partnering with the Project Management team to forecast permitting needs 12 - 18 months ahead of construction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overseeing the accurate, timely, and complete submissions of all permits and requests for permissions to municipalities, pole owners, and all other reviewing bodies not to impede the IQ Fiber network build plan of record.
- Maintaining detailed project plans and reports to inform accurate responses to inquiries from team members and reviewing bodies to prevent procedural delays.
- Create and maintain permitting project plans that align with the overall network build plan, ensuring timely approvals and permissions are in place and on schedule to support an uninterrupted sequencing of work for our construction partners to meet or exceed the IQ Fiber deployment plan
- Daily tracking of the make-ready process and steps required to achieve the most efficient way possible to obtain attachment approval.
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Experience with permitting agencies and processes such as state departments of transportation (DOT), local municipalities, and private right-of-way owners
- Experience with outside plant (OSP) engineering and construction processes, specifically processes involving the placing of aerial, underground, and buried telecommunications facilities
- Strong leadership, project management, and organizational skills
- Innovative, strategic thinker and decision maker
- Strong problem-solving and execution skills in driving transformation and change
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience managing large multi-state projects
- Extensive experience in the make-ready process and tracking step-by-step process through release
- Familiar with JUMS (GA Power joint use management system). NJUNS (National Joint Utilities Notification System)
- Experience working with municipalities and utility partners
- Experience managing construction partnerships and other key vendor relationships
- Lead and execute multiple, simultaneous business transformation and process changes
IQ Fiber is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Required profile
Experience
Industry :
Telecommunication Services
Spoken language(s):
English
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory. Other Skills
- Leadership
- Organizational Skills
- Strategic Thinking
- Communication
- Problem Solving
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