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TDS TelecomPosted 1 week ago

Network Specialist I - Permitting Coordinator

$70,500–$70,500 year

RemoteUnited States

Full TimeLarge

Job Summary

Prepare and secure permits, easements, rights of entry, and leases for facility placement and colocation by researching requirements, communicating with authorities, negotiating fees, and managing applications. Manage end-to-end permitting workflows including scope estimation, vendor coordination, GIS database updates, and record closure while interfacing with contractors, property owners, and government entities. Handle lease negotiations, payment processing, and risk management for special projects and operational initiatives. Work remotely across 40+ states with occasional field travel.

Required Qualifications

  • Associate degree (or higher)
  • 2+ years professional work experience
  • 3+ years experience in Voice, Data, or Video networking
  • Must have and maintain a valid driver's license
  • reliable transportation
  • insurance
  • The ability to utilize Microsoft Office Software, such as Outlook (email), Excel, Word

Desired Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience in permitting
  • Technical knowledge of Real Estate Law
  • Land Surveying
  • Project Management
  • GIS
  • Telecommunications
  • Engineering
  • Construction
  • The independent ability to quickly learn and comprehend a wide variety of complex work, responsibilities, assignments, customer requests, inquiries, notices, alerts, issues, project documents, details, standards, plans and maps and review them for completeness, risks, policy compliance and to help determine/ estimate the scope of work, timelines and costs for tasks and the best practices required for their successful completion
  • The ability to own/ care for/ be accountable to successfully create, organize, schedule, resource, track, update, report, communicate status, expedite, overcome obstacles/ issues, complete, closeout records and report metrics for multiple tasks simultaneously within expectations of cost, time, quality, etc. while working independently and/or with others on a daily and ongoing basis to meet performance and productivity expectations
  • The ability to comprehend and help ensure that larger team and organizational goals and initiatives are successful through a sense of importance and urgency surrounding task throughput, efficient utilization of time, effective communication and prioritization of tasks, assignments and responsibilities
  • The ability to quickly and confidently build trusting, positive and productive internal and external professional relationships with a wide variety of diverse individuals/ personalities, whom often have different priorities, temperaments and concerns, through effectively addressing obstacles to success (such as incomplete/ missing permit submittal information or unreasonable permit authority requirements) and by trying to help find and negotiate fair and reasonable solutions is essential to s...
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  • Power Point
  • Access
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  • SAP
  • AutoCAD
  • ESRI GIS Software
  • write python scripts
  • build complex queries
  • tools and maps

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