Delivery Manager

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Job Title – Delivery Manager – Network Rollout

Job Location – Reading, Berkshire

Job Role:

This role is for a delivery manager for Network rollouts for key mobile operators in the UK. We require experience in design and build delivery management to build new base stations.

Responsibilities

  • To act as the Build/Design tech lead across the team providing technical support, direction and guidance to all members of the team, thereby contributing to the overall delivery of the team’s objectives
  • Support all Build/design activity.
  • Manage, on behalf of the various clients, budgets associated with all Build/design activity.
  • Seek opportunities for efficiency & cost saving by driving a culture of cost-awareness & innovation.
  • Direct, govern and act as a point of escalation with 3rd party suppliers.
  • Deliver results and achieve SLA/KPI performance by focusing on effective execution of work. Continually looking for revised ways of working leading to improved performance.
  • Lead by example and continually look for ways to improve performance.
  • Interface with different project work streams to ensure efficient handover between milestones.
  • Lead and develop a highly motivated team.
  • Attend regular meetings with the client and 3rd party suppliers to ensure the end to end delivery of the service.
  • Create and manage a quality plan to monitor and audit the processes to ensure deliverables are fault free.
  • Ensure all dependencies are monitored and delivered in accordance with the agreed timespans to support the overall project plan.

Experience

  • Must have recent experience Delivering the rollout of a project
  • Must have recent Build experience
  • Must have recent Design experience
  • Last role been in a Telecoms environment
  • Willing to travel

Delivery Manager

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Job Title – ADC Delivery Manager

Job Location – Reading

Job Role:

We are looking for an experienced Acquisition, Design and Construction Delivery Manager who will lead and coordinate Delivery requirements with respect to ADC activities and support Commercial and Technical topics relating to Network Rollout (NRO) of our clients Radio Products, achieving Build Completion.

You will be involved in planning and management of the ADC services needed to secure an efficient delivery process and a timely customer acceptance supporting the Customer Delivery Lead as the need arises via a team of ADC project managers. You must therefore have good people management skills motivating the team to deliver against targets.

The Delivery Manager Lead ADC will ensure work is executed as per the project requirements and will act as a point of contact for delivery activities towards the Customer Delivery Organisation, Third Parties assigned by our client, and their Project Organisation and internal Partners.

The role is primarily to provide services relating to the Acquisition, Design and Construction of the clients LTE & 5G RAN solutions but may also include In Building, Infrastructure and Antenna line solutions. This role is suited to candidates with a proficient background in NRO RAN swap projects with experience and awareness of acquisition of cell sites, cell site design or construction management. Suitable candidates must have expert knowledge of MBNL ADC processes and policies and have worked at a strategy level in the delivery of ADC services

Responsibilities:

  • Accountable for ADC service delivery for the deployment of the clients equipment from site instruction through to site build acceptance.
  • Organise and coordinate the rollout of sites, ensuring that they are delivered in line with the contractual requirements.
  • Manage the clients Third parties to deliver sites through a controlled program of works ensuring that all implementation works are undertaken to budget and within SLA.
  • Ensure Delivery critical metric measurements are in place and continually reported on. Act on relevant metrics by investigating and implementing corrective actions, participate in Customer Delivery meetings and issue associated reports.
  • Actively handle issues or dependencies throughout the delivery cycle that may impact the commencement or acceptance of a site deployment Ensure site deployments align with all Health & Safety, CDM, ICNIRP and any other legislative requirements applicable to on site work (and any changes to these requirements)
  • Ensure planning information is maintained in the project tools and that all documentation is handled in a structured manner and uploaded to the required repositories.
  • Support New Product Introductions and ensure they are transferred effectively into the Delivery process. This is to include acting as a Delivery Subject Matter Specialist towards FOA’s, Trials or Proof of Concepts.
  • Assessment of Customer Change Requests (CCR’s) Promote use of the clients Global methods and technology solutions to maximise delivery efficiency

Experience:

  • Minimum of 10 years’ experience in leading and running ADC services within a NRO Swap project environment.
  • Planning and organisation skills for large projects.
  • Experience in handling third party suppliers in the delivery of DICI rollout services.
  • Commercial awareness and experience of delivering to budgets.
  • Excellent leading and supervising skills combined with a results-oriented demeanour.
  • Effective communication and facilitation skills.
  • Delivering results and meeting customer expectations.
  • Flexible with the ability to lead change and resolve ambiguity
  • Experience in resolving challenges with perseverance to overcome multiple obstacles.
  • Prepared to travel throughout the UK to customer offices.
  • Ericsson Radio Product knowledge
  • Knowledge/Experience of local authority planning in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and also site acquisition experience gained in a utilities or telecom environment.
  • Knowledge/Experience of Civils, Towers, Antenna Line Systems (from BTS to antenna) including testing
  • Excellent IT skills e.g. MS Office and workflow concepts

Build Manager

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Job Title – Build Manager

Job Location – Remote/Chester

Responsibilities;

  • Take ownership of the build phase of the ADC project
  • Plan site build and ensure resourcing is completed
  • Capture variation requests (VR) and issue to finance
  • Manage sub-contractors and be their point of contact
  • Review designs, surveys and plan builds accordingly
  • Regular communication with customer advising on progression of builds

Experience

  • Projects involving landing monopoles and Streetworks poles as Build Manager / Project Manager / Delivery Manager
  • Ericsson / MBNL / 3UK / VF experience build / deployment project experience would be essential
  • Knowledge and understanding of how to build a wireless telecom site
  • Being able to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders

What the Build Manager would get in return;

  • Attractive salary with benefits that exceed the market standards
  • Highly staffed delivery and back office team to support the business demands
  • Flexible working (remote or in the office)
  • Career progression opportunities

Design Lead

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Design Lead

Do you want a long term and rewarding career in a company that encourages growth and development?

If you answered yes, we want to hear from you.

At Comvergent we make networks work and despite the challenges over the last year have entered an exciting stage of new business growth. As such we are seeking talented Design Leads to join our team.

Reporting to the Head of Design, you will work across our telecoms project portfolio, assisting our internal and external design teams by providing technical support and leadership, all whilst helping to deliver of our clients design requirements.

The Design Lead is also responsible for:

  • Help maintain consistency of output from external and internal CAD techs.
  • Ensure all document guidelines are shared and understood by both the internal teams and sub-contractors on a weekly basis.
  • Make sure projects have relevant check sheets in place and are regularly being updated and improved upon.
  • Be accountable for the operational performance of Design teams within specified areas of responsibility.
  • Approval of design drawings and accurately recording the QA of all sites within agreed SLA.
  • Advise the programme team on quality performance of the sub-contractor base.
  • Aim towards improving Right-First-Time metric to achieve an 85% RFT delivery.
  • Manage Client interface for the Design function for Single and Multi-Disciplinary Projects.
  • Ensures Inter-divisional issues are quickly resolved.
  • Undertake minor CAD amends to enable sites to proceed through QC.
  • Coach, develop and mentor the CAD techs & Surveyors assigned to them.
  • Provide technical support to the projects and deal with technical queries from the client.
  • Make minor amendments to drawings when required.
  • Management of the client defect process (PACs).
  • Raising of concessions.
  • Assist on all H&S concerns for design.

We would welcome applicants with the following skills and experience:

  • Previous experience in a similar role within Telecoms industry is essential.
  • Awareness of compliance standards (such as ICNIRP) when going through the design process.
  • Excellent communicator who can provide information across several levels of a business with ease.
  • Ability to travel to sites, customers, or suppliers as part of the design consultation process when required.

Interested and want to know more? Click Apply today!

Job Location: Remote or office locations in either: Stratford, Manchester, Chester, Bristol, Belfast or Glasgow

Start Date: ASAP

Employment type: Permanent

Package: £Negotiable Salary and benefits