Project Manager – Telecom, Fiber & Integrated Infrastructure

DND Solutions LLC is a telecommunications and infrastructure firm delivering wireless, wireline, low-voltage, fiber, and access-control systems for federal and commercial clients. The Project Manager will oversee end-to-end telecom, fiber, and integrated infrastructure projects, managing schedules, budgets, field teams, subcontractors, documentation, quality, safety, billing, and customer acceptance through closeout.

Responsibilities:

• Site readiness, material delivery, mobilization, inspections, testing, commissioning, and closeout
• Lead project kickoff meetings, internal status meetings, customer progress calls, and production reviews
• Provide company leadership with timely updates regarding project status, financial performance, risks, decisions, and required support
• Maintain project documentation, including submittals, RFIs, procurement logs, change logs, daily reports, meeting minutes, schedules, testing records, and closeout documentation
• Identify changes in scope, differing site conditions, delays, customer-directed work, and other potential cost or schedule impacts
• Prepare and support change-order requests with appropriate documentation and pricing information
• Coordinate progress billing and provide timely billing support to accounting and company leadership
• Ensure completed work is properly documented, approved, invoiced, and closed out
• Monitor quality, safety, testing, documentation, and customer-acceptance requirements
• Address production shortfalls, quality concerns, rework, damages, delays, and subcontractor performance issues
• Develop and implement recovery plans when projects fall behind schedule, budget, quality, or customer expectations
• Maintain professional relationships with prime contractors, federal representatives, general contractors, engineers, facility personnel, suppliers, subcontractors, and customer stakeholders
• Support estimating, preconstruction, site assessments, proposal development, constructability reviews, and project-risk evaluations when requested
• Help improve and standardize DND Solutions’ project-management procedures, reporting tools, templates, and workflows

Requirements:

• At least five years of direct project-management experience in construction, telecommunications, low-voltage, electrical, utility, security, or technology infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple active projects or field teams simultaneously
• Experience managing projects from kickoff through completion, billing, customer acceptance, and closeout
• Direct experience with project budgets, cost tracking, financial forecasting, procurement, subcontractors, billing, and change orders
• Strong understanding of construction schedules, drawings, specifications, contracts, submittals, RFIs, change management, testing, and closeout
• Experience managing both company employees and subcontractors
• Working knowledge of at least two of the following:
• Structured cabling
• Inside-plant fiber
• Outside-plant fiber
• Fiber blowing or splicing
• CCTV
• Access control
• Intrusion detection
• Telecommunications pathways
• Electrical construction
• Underground conduit or civil construction
• Ability to manage technical projects without being the hands-on subject-matter expert in every discipline
• Strong understanding of labor cost, material cost, committed cost, earned revenue, gross margin, billing status, and cost to complete
• Strong written communication, documentation, organization, negotiation, and customer-management skills
• Ability to work independently and make responsible project decisions without constant supervision
• Ability to operate effectively in a growing company where processes continue to evolve
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, cloud-based document systems, scheduling software, and project-management platforms
• Valid driver's license
• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the United States
• Experience with telecommunications, fiber, low-voltage, security, electrical, civil, or federal construction
• Strong project management skills, including Project Management and the ability to lead telecom, fiber, and infrastructure projects from planning through closeout
• Experience in expediting activities, including Expeditor and Expediting skills to accelerate procurement, delivery, and workflow while maintaining quality standards
• Background in inspection and quality control, including Inspection skills for installation, construction, and systems verification in telecom and fiber environments
• Proficiency in logistics and operations coordination, including Logistics Management skills for materials, scheduling, and crew deployment across multiple sites
• Knowledge of telecommunications, fiber optics, structured cabling, and low-voltage systems; experience with secure facilities and access-control infrastructure is beneficial
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, and project documentation, and to use project management and collaboration software effectively
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, schedule-driven environment
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; prior experience managing federal or mission-critical infrastructure projects is a plus
• Experience with federal government, Department of Defense, or public-sector construction projects
• Experience managing multi-state or multi-site programs
• Experience working in secure, occupied, controlled, or mission-critical facilities
• Experience with fixed-price, unit-price, subcontract, task-order, IDIQ, or service-based contracts
• Experience managing projects that combine telecommunications, fiber, security, electrical, and civil scopes
• OSHA 30 certification
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP)
• BICSI or related telecommunications credentials
• Federal Construction Quality Management certification
• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, telecommunications, or a related field
• Candidates should live within reasonable access to a commercial airport and be comfortable traveling on relatively short notice