Project Manager (Telecom Domain)

Job Title: Project Manager (Circuits)
Location: REMOTE
Duration: 12 months Contract
Schedule: Primarily EST business hours; flexibility for CST and potentially PST candidates

Certifications: None required; PMP preferred but not required

Top Skills:
- Networking Background preferred but not required
- Experience managing technical, IT, network, or telecom projects
- General understanding of networking and telecommunications
- Experience managing multiple projects, timelines, and dependencies
- Strong cross-functional coordination skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience tracking deliverables, action items, risks, and project status
- Ability to lead project/status calls and drive follow-up
- Highly organized and able to work independently
- Comfortable working remotely across multiple teams

Nice to haves:
Telecom or network infrastructure project experience
- Fios experience
- Circuit delivery/build/turn-up experience
- Familiarity with gateway routers
- Understanding of network capacity and utilization
- Central office/network deployment experience
- Experience working with network engineering and operations teams
- PMP certification
- Experience in a large carrier/telecommunications environment

Position Summary:
We are seeking an organized and highly communicative Project Manager to support network infrastructure and circuit delivery initiatives within a large telecommunications environment. This role will coordinate the end-to-end build process associated with network capacity expansion, helping ensure equipment and circuits progress through the appropriate engineering, installation, turn-up, and automation teams.
This is primarily a project coordination and delivery role rather than a hands-on technical engineering position. The ideal candidate will have general knowledge of telecommunications or network infrastructure and the ability to manage numerous dependencies, priorities, stakeholders, and workstreams simultaneously.
The Project Manager will work closely with network leadership and engineering teams to prioritize gateway router capacity needs, track circuit and equipment deployments, identify blockers, coordinate downstream teams, and drive projects through completion.

Required Qualifications:
Experience in project management or program delivery within a technical environment.
General understanding of network infrastructure, telecommunications, circuits, routers, or related technologies.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and dependencies simultaneously.
Demonstrated ability to drive projects forward through consistent follow-up and stakeholder coordination.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing dependencies between multiple groups.
Ability to organize and facilitate project meetings, document action items, establish ownership, and track items through completion.
Strong attention to detail and ability to identify and escalate project risks or delays.
Comfortable working independently in a fully remote environment.