Construction Planner I - Military Veterans

As a Construction Planner with Cox Communications, you’ll coordinate construction builds, re-builds and upgrades, as well as perform field assessments, create efficient route designs and estimate costs. Red tape? No match for you. Where applicable, you’ll obtain access and right-of-way agreements, and coordinate permitting and pole applications, joint-trenching, and make-ready for utility poles. You’ll also repair and inspect Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) and/or Fiber networks to maintain construction standards, ensuring network readiness for launch or deployment of products. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight of construction project to include materials, contract labor, resources, and estimates to include timelines and expected expenses. Primary work will be in support of plant extensions, cable replacements, third party damages, serviceability, repair quality checks, small/medium retail operations, network rebuilds, network relocates and upgrades.
• Perform site assessments of proposed construction projects, ensures alternative routing paths, and assesses cost-effective design for construction.
• Coordinate all customer implementation activities including site walk-throughs, pre-construction meetings, verification of demarcation point, coordinates access for subcontract labor, and requests private utility information.
• Coordinate contractor work, coordinate and/or obtains permits, building access, or ROW agreements where applicable, distributes design prints and other necessary working documents. Negotiates and approves design or construction changes with contractors and/or customers.
• Coordinate with public works personnel, developers, customers, building owners, and utilities on projects.
• Complete associated tasks within workflow databases and updates schedules.
• Estimate construction costs, prepare budgets, manage change orders, approve contractor invoices and track expenses.
• Participate in managing and estimating revenue forecasts, material planning, capital and expense budgets.
• Inspect construction work and/or coordinate inspection assignments.
• Release addresses as serviceable and notify other departments of serviceability.
• As projects are completed, perform tasks to close tasks in database/tool, reconcile assets, and generate reports to ensure proper closure.
• Partner with contractors to ensure Cox standards are applied to construction builds.
• Participate in BCP (Business Continuity Plan) events as needed

Qualifications:
Minimum-

• High School Diploma/GED 
• Generally, less than 2 years’ experience in a related field
• Safe drivers needed; valid driver’s license required
• 1 or more year of experience in related field (i.e., Construction Planning or Network Operations) with a Telecommunications company
• Basic knowledge of the HFC Plant to include understanding of the telecom infrastructure, how service is provided; fiber to node; power supply, and trunk knowledge.
• Strong organization skills with the ability to prioritize and perform multiple tasks and/or to meet deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaborative skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization
• Must be self-motivated and enjoy a challenging fast paced work environment.
   

Preferred:

• Previous Planner experience strongly preferred