Working as the Senior Project Manager Network Technical Engineer, you will administer and provide technical direction to department engineers as well as plan and coordinate larger-scale network and/or engineering projects or several medium or small projects while acting as a technical specialist for a specific section.
The Senior Project Manager Network Technical Engineer typically reports into third level management and may oversee a team or be an individual contributor. Position may provide training or mentoring to less experienced staff, and may also provide feedback for the evaluation of new staff.
Description:
The Market Senior PM is responsible for executing against the Plan of Record (POR) for his/her assigned focus area(s) on time and delivering a quality product for AT&T customers. This position administers and provides technical direction within their respective market to ensure necessary alignment across focus areas to deliver on the POR. Also coordinates cross functional activities to complete major projects following the responsibilities outlined below.
This Senior PM job description covers, but is not limited to, the following areas of focus:
Market LTE PM, Market Transport PM, Market ETTCS PM, Market Rehomes PM, Market MSN/DACS/DECOM/Deinstalls PM, Market RNC PM, Market MCS/VM PM, Market RAN PM
Key PM Responsibilities:
1. Standard Responsibilities:
· Ensure successful project execution by delivering desired results on time and at the expected level of quality
· Develop and manage project scope, including formal scope change control process
· Create and maintain positive working relationships, which build collaborative and committed teams to deliver desired project results
· Communicate all POR changes to Integrated Planning in a timely manner
· Develop and manage project plan, schedule
· Contribute input to general OPEX Budget and/or CAPEX Budget responsibilities as appropriate
· Develop and manage project communications plan
· Develop, manage and communicate risk and risk mitigation plans as appropriate
· Escalate project issues as appropriate to support successful project execution
· Ensure work is properly prioritized for effective and timely management of resources across the market
· Manage project resources and coordinate cross functional resources to meet project requirements
· Manage external vendors to support project execution
· Work with Regional "Edge to Edge" and Market "End to End" to manage cross functional hand-offs, dependencies and communications (includes active participation in Market Roundtables)
· Work with NP&E functional organizations to manage hand-offs, dependencies and communications to ensure execution of POE
· Coordinate and collaborate with Market AMs to support Market projects
· Develop and communicate accurate and timely project status reports to project stakeholders and leadership
· Local Market schedule de-confliction
· Ensure inter-team coordination for market planning & transport requirements.
2. Areas of Focus Responsibilities:
· Market LTE PM
- Manage "Edge to Edge" LTE technology (4G) projects and coordinate with Core, Transport (ETTCS) and RAN
· Market Transport PM
- Provide Market focused "Edge to Edge" high level management for all transport types
- Act as single point of interface for market level transport coordination and planning through implementation
- Manage the successful execution of market transport plans/requirements, impact assessment, (including (RAN, Edge Core, and Core needs) and coordinates activities with CPDO and Provisioning Control teams.
- Manage the transport process that results in the transport and RAN traffic engineers validating the bandwidth requirements as contained in the transport tools, matches the current requirements as identified by RAN traffic engineering
- Manage the tasks and milestones associated with the delivery of the cell site transport including Customer Not Ready (CNR) and PF issue management, escalations of missed tasks
- Manage the process of ensuring transport dates in CASPR/PITT are updated regularly
