Damage Prevention Manager

Job Summary

Zayo is seeking a highly skilled Damage Prevention Manager to join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for developing and managing relationships with construction contractors to prevent outages and ensure the safe installation of our cable plant.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with clients, engineers, and management to resolve and prevent outages.
• Develop and manage relationships with construction contractors to raise awareness of our cable plant locations and promote best practices to avoid strike damages.
• Manage locating to ensure all locates are accurate, complete, and performed on time according to state laws.
• Conduct daily reviews of the Damage Prevention Technician hand-off report to ensure dispatches, tasks, and maintenance projects are completed on time.
• Work closely with Zayo market OSP personnel to understand the status of inflight relocations and other activities that could represent risk to the cable plant.
• Collaborate with damage strike cost recovery personnel and Finance to ensure maximum recovery from 3rd party construction parties and locating vendors.
• Develop and implement process improvements using root cause analysis.
• Recommending feature enhancements and developing preventive/predictive best practices.
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of Damage Prevention Technicians.
• Provide training and development of Damage Prevention Technicians to maximize their effectiveness.
• Assign and balance workload across the team.

Requirements

• Must live within 60 minutes of the Atlanta, GA area.
• 3+ years of experience in people management and leading teams required.
• 5+ years of experience in telecom field construction tasks required.
• Previous experience in site development, underground installations, utility locating, and fiber optic cable builds.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction, telecom, or similar field, or equivalent work experience.
• Telecom and/or industry safety training.
• OSHA or other Safety Certifications.
• Ability to be on call and/or work various shifts.
• Ability to travel, as needed.

Benefits

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance.
• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan.
• Fitness membership discounts.
• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave.