Network Specialist - Permitting Coordinator
$61,300–$61,300 year
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteFull Time$61,300–$61,300 yearLarge
Full TimeLarge
Job Summary
Prepare and secure permits, easements, rights of entry, and leases for facility colocation and construction placement. Research requirements, communicate with authorities and contractors, attend meetings, and negotiate fees to expedite rights ahead of construction. Update GIS databases, manage records, and oversee vendor interactions, payments, and insurance. Assist with special projects, operations metrics, and scheduling while maintaining compliance with laws and TDS policy. Work remotely across 40+ states, utilizing Microsoft Office, ESRI GIS, and Python tools as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Associate degree (or higher) –OR- 2+ years professional work experience.
- 2+ years experience in Voice, Data, or Video networking.
- Must have and maintain a valid driver's license, reliable transportation and insurance.
- 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...
- The ability to utilize Microsoft Office Software, such as Outlook (email), Excel, Word, is required
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in permitting.
- Technical knowledge of Real Estate Law, Land Surveying, Project Management, GIS, Telecommunications, Engineering, Construction, and other fields is desirable.
- The ability to utilize One Note, SharePoint. Power Point, Access, Project and Clarity, Ariba, SAP and AutoCAD skills are a plus.
- The ability to utilize ESRI GIS Software to map records and maintain geodatabase, write python scripts, build complex queries, tools and maps is desirable
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