Project Coordinator (Telecom - DCPS) (ONSITE)
Washington, DC
Contracted
Manager/Supervisor
Job Title: Project Coordinator (Telecom - DCPS) (ONSITE)
Location: Washington, DC
Duration: 12 Months+
Job Description:
The Client is seeking candidates with IT, Telecommunications, and/or infrastructure support experience who is interested in supporting a small government operated telecommunications department in client Area.
Construction Managers, foreman and Project Managers with trade skill experiences, such as
telecommunications, electrical, mechanical or HVAC are encouraged to apply.
The Client expects three 3-4 days per week in the office/field and 1-2 days remote telework. In-person site surveys are required on an as-need basis to support customers in the client Area. Frequency of site surveys may range from 10-15 per month.
Responsibilities Include:
Design:
Agreement(s):
Procurement:
Installation:
Cutover:
Billing:
Reporting:
Required Qualifications:
Required Skills:
Prefer:
We expect the candidate to be a mature professional who is able to take direction, provide technical guidance and is able to communicate problems as they arise. We seek lifetime learners who know how to work a problem, propose solutions and ask for help.
Responsibilities:
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:
Skills:
Location: Washington, DC
Duration: 12 Months+
Job Description:
The Client is seeking candidates with IT, Telecommunications, and/or infrastructure support experience who is interested in supporting a small government operated telecommunications department in client Area.
Construction Managers, foreman and Project Managers with trade skill experiences, such as
telecommunications, electrical, mechanical or HVAC are encouraged to apply.
The Client expects three 3-4 days per week in the office/field and 1-2 days remote telework. In-person site surveys are required on an as-need basis to support customers in the client Area. Frequency of site surveys may range from 10-15 per month.
Responsibilities Include:
Design:
- Works with customers to gather preliminary telecommunications requirements.
- Work as a proxy between the design team and the customer.
- Coordinate scheduling and access for site surveys with team and vendors.
- Communicate design options and constraints to customers as needed.
- Setup meetings between stakeholders as needed to resolve design challenges.
Agreement(s):
- Coordinate completion of customer agreements for projects you are assigned to.
Procurement:
- Prepare Statement of Work (SOW), Bill of Materials (BOM) and supporting documentation for equipment orders.
- Facilitate equipment and parts delivery to customer sites.
- Work with trade vendors to secure task orders for cabling, electrical and HVAC work as needed.
Installation:
- Coordinate scheduling and access for:
- Pre-construction walk-throughs with cabling, electrical and HVAC vendors.
- Fixture installation team.
- Outside and inside plant Fiber construction team.
- Equipment installation team.
- Communicate risks, roadblocks, and opportunities between stakeholders.
- Facilitate cross-team problem solving.
Cutover:
- Facilitate pre-deployment meetings.
- Coordinate resources across teams to ensure proper coverage for cutovers.
- Prepare maintenance notifications for the team and customers.
- Communicate service activation to customer and billing team.
Billing:
- Ensure customers' billing reflects new service changes.
- Risk/Problem Escalation:
- Escalate project and operational issues to appropriate teams.
Reporting:
- Capture and share all internal and external meeting minutes with your customers and internally facing teams you coordinate with.
- Produce weekly project details, tasks and status reports required.
- Writing high level summaries of project statuses for executive level reports.
- Produce and maintain gantt chart style project schedules.
- Coordinate project deliverables and schedules between vendors, installers, engineers, and project sponsors.
- Timely & effective coordination and communication with customer team, other stakeholders and vendors.
Required Qualifications:
- Must have 4+ years of IT, telecommunications, and/or network infrastructure support experience at tier 1 and/or tier 2 level.
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- 1+ years of Project Management experience in any field OR Certification in PMP,
- Project + or other similar Project Management credential(s).
- Comfortable interacting with customers, vendors, partners, engineers, and other stakeholders on a daily basis.
- Comfortable translating and summarizing technical requirements (verbal and written) between customers and engineers.
- Experience with requirements gathering.
- Ability to utilize MS Word and Excel to draft, format and simplify technical content into a single document for delivery.
- Experience creating schedules using products such as MS Project.
Required Skills:
- Demonstrate ability to create and QC BOMs for errors and omissions.
- Ability to use MS Visio, MS PowerPoint or other similar sketch tools to modify or
- mark up designs, photos, floor plans or other requirements documents.
Prefer:
- General experience in telecommunications industry.
- Ability to understand and review Outside Plant and Inside Plant construction and
- cable installation engineering drawings.
- Basic understanding of network electronics design and common components.
- Basic understanding of power and cooling requirements for telecommunication
- equipment.
- Basic knowledge of voice services such as handsets, video conferencing and call
- trees.
- Basic knowledge of wireless access points, small cell and distrusted antenna
- systems.
We expect the candidate to be a mature professional who is able to take direction, provide technical guidance and is able to communicate problems as they arise. We seek lifetime learners who know how to work a problem, propose solutions and ask for help.
Responsibilities:
- Leads team on large projects or significant segment of large complex projects.
- Analyzes new and complex project related problems and creates innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components.
- Provides applications systems analysis and programming activities for a government site, facility, or multiple locations.
- Prepares long and short-range plans for application selection, systems development, systems maintenance, and production activities and for necessary support resources.
- Oversees all aspects of projects.
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience; or a current PMP Certification
Skills:
| Skills | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
| Developing project scopes and plans | |||
| Managing and tracking program progress against the project plan in an enterprise environment | |||
| Preparing status reports | |||
| Experience with MS Project or similar project planning software | |||
| Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience |
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