Job Description

OSP Engineering Program Manager

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Romania

Reporting To: Timothy Gables

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple OSP engineering projects across different clients, markets, and scopes.
• Track project timelines, milestones, deliverables, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure projects are completed according to client requirements, contractual obligations, and internal standards.
• Maintain visibility across all assigned programs and provide regular updates to leadership and clients.
• Identify project delays, budget risks, resource gaps, and scope changes early and drive corrective actions.
• Serve as the main point of contact for assigned client programs.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through clear communication, accountability, and timely delivery.
• Participate in client meetings, status calls, project reviews, and escalation discussions.
• Ensure client expectations are clearly understood and communicated to internal teams.
• Manage client feedback and ensure required corrections or updates are completed promptly.
• Develop, monitor, and manage project schedules and delivery plans.
• Track project budgets, production costs, labor allocation, and financial performance.
• Review project estimates, change orders, billing milestones, and budget impacts.
• Work with internal teams to ensure resources are aligned with project priorities and deadlines.
• Report budget variances, forecast risks, and recommend solutions to maintain profitability.
• Oversee the delivery of OSP engineering work including HLD, LLD, fielding packages, permit drawings, construction prints, redlines, and closeout documentation.
• Ensure engineering designs meet client standards, jurisdictional requirements, and constructability expectations.
• Coordinate with QA/QC teams to maintain high-quality deliverables.
• Support issue resolution related to design conflicts, missing data, permitting delays, field changes, and client revisions.
• Ensure accurate tracking of production, project status, and deliverable completion.
• Coordinate work across engineering, fielding, permitting, GIS, construction support, and offshore production teams.
• Assign priorities and ensure workload is properly distributed across available resources.
• Monitor team performance, productivity, and adherence to project requirements.
• Support training, process improvement, and standardization across projects.
• Escalate staffing or performance concerns when needed.
• Prepare regular program reports including project status, schedule health, budget performance, risks, blockers, and next steps.
• Maintain accurate data in internal systems, trackers, dashboards, and client platforms.
• Analyze project performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and profitability.
• Support the creation and improvement of SOPs, workflows, templates, and client-specific delivery processes.
• Ensure documentation is complete, organized, and available for audits, billing, and project closeout.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in OSP engineering, telecom construction, fiber deployment, or utility infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing multiple projects or programs at the same time.
• Strong understanding of OSP design workflows, permitting, fielding, construction prints, and project closeout.
• Experience working with telecom clients, municipalities, vendors, and internal production teams.
• Strong project management skills, including schedule tracking, budget control, risk management, and reporting.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, project trackers, reporting tools, and client management platforms.

• Experience with FTTH, FTTB, GPON, backbone, feeder, distribution, or long-haul fiber projects.
• Experience with GIS tools, CAD tools, QGIS, AutoCAD, IQGeo, ArcGIS, Katapult, O-Calc, or similar platforms.
• Experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with permitting requirements, make-ready engineering, pole loading, easements, and right-of-way processes.
• PMP, CAPM, or similar project management certification is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package;
• Being part of an international, dynamic work environment;
• Professional development (seminars, courses);
• Medical Insurance (MedLife);
• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing international company with significant impact in its industry;
• 7Card.