JOB SPECIFICATION
JOB TITLE: Desktop Planner (12 month fixed term contract)
JOB LOCATION: Coalisland
TERMS: office based, full time fixed term contract
THE JOB
You will work within Planning and Design department to build and design the route of the fibre network. You will create designs based on information provided by the surveying team and provide solutions to problems that arise in the route planning.
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?
- Scheduling and prioritisation of planning work activities
- Creation of low-level and high-level designs
- Progress reporting on planning work activities
- Owning, executing and delivering planning requirements within a geographic region
- Carry out detailed survey work in your area, to include but not limited to meeting design specification for civils and fibre build
- Creation of efficient and accurate detailed job packs
- Good understanding of build disciplines - including all accompanying documentation for utility stats, street gazetteer, detailed network plans with work point instructions, CDM, BoM, etc
- Liaison with any local authority agents and any other third parties as part of overall planning role
- Highlight and escalate major design variances to the planning base
- Flexible approach in dealing with amendments to planned information
- Ensure accurate completion of all planned submissions and work is completed on time
- Become proficient to highlight and escalate major design variances
WHAT WILL YOU BRING?
- Access Network Planning experience
- GIS experience (ArcGIS Pro or QGIS)
- Demonstrable experience of fibre network design, FTTX, CDM
- External site survey experience; NRSWA, Unit 2 Street Works Signing, Lighting & Guarding accreditation
- S11/S13 Accreditations
- Planning knowledge out to the homes, across legacy and current telco access network topologies
- Proven track record of planning successful projects
- Ability to draw together different technical disciplines
- Able to communicate with people across multiple locations and at different levels
- Able to identify and work with key stakeholders inside and outside of the business
- Attention to detail and accuracy coupled with a ‘can do’ attitude
- A strong team player with initiative, strong organisation and the desire to succeed
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills
- A total awareness and understanding of current health and safety procedures
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office and being PC literate - MS Word, Excel, Omnigraffle
ABOUT US
Viberoptix, part of the Fibrus Group of companies, deliver specialised fibre network build solutions from design, civils activities, cabling and splicing. Our team of experienced and certified engineers are leaders in their field providing excellence in every aspect of the fibre network construction.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply to join Viberoptix, please do so online and our recruitment team will be in contact with you once we’ve had a chance to have a look at your application. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for your interest in Viberoptix.
At Viberoptix, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. We are an equal opportunities employer and always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job, welcoming people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from women, under-represented genders, individuals with disabilities, and under-represented ethnicities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working - there is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.
All offers of employment with Fibrus will be subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which may include all or some of the following: references, right to work, criminal record history, professional qualifications.
Fibrus Limited, Fibrus ISP, Hyperfast and Viberoptix, belong to the Infracapital group of companies. We will retain your information, for the purposes of recruitment, for a period of up to 12 months. We may also share your information with our partner organisations for the purposes of recruitment. Please email [email protected] if you do not wish us to retain your information or do not wish for us to share your information.
