• Project Leadership: Own the delivery lifecycle of complex technical initiatives. You will practice holistic ownership, connecting daily engineering actions to our broader 2026 company goals and ensuring value is delivered, not just tasks checked off. • Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary translation layer between engineers, architects, and business stakeholders. You will actively seek clarification to ensure understanding and define clear project scopes that drive long-term success. • Proactive Risk Management: Anticipate future trends and roadblocks. You will identify dependencies and risks early, implementing mitigation strategies to ensure the team remains reliable. • Workflow Optimization: Champion continuous improvement by leveraging feedback as an upgrade path. You will use data and analytics to refine our development processes, ensuring we remain agile and efficient as we scale. • Execution & Communication: Facilitate clear, active listening and communication across the organization. You will manage daily execution via Kanban to minimize the burden on leaders and keep the team focused on high-impact work.

• Coordinate AI projects from initial concept through pilot phases to successful deployment, in coordination with the department lead or requestor seeking the new AI tool or technology. • Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to anticipate and prioritize AI opportunities. • Conduct research and analysis of emerging AI technologies and platforms, proposing the most suitable tools based on defined requirements of the requestor. • Evaluate vendors including pricing analysis and solution selection. • Lead the coordination of cross-functional AI pilots and evaluate their results. • Document technical requirements, usage scenarios, and best practices for AI tools. • Assist in managing organizational change and responsible for ensuring adoption of AI solutions. • Maintain up-to-date records on AI tools, relevant policies, and procedural documentation. • Deliver regular progress reports and insights to senior leadership. • Partner with Learning and Development (L&D) to provide training content and assist with facilitation when training staff on new AI solutions.

• Own and manage engineering schedules across multiple FTTH projects and markets. • Develop, maintain, and track engineering milestones including field surveys, HLD/LLD delivery, pole attachments and make-ready readiness, permitting, and construction-ready handoff. • Ensure engineering timelines align with construction start dates and release schedules. • Identify schedule risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks and proactively implement mitigation plans. • Coordinate with engineering teams and permitting specialists to ensure timely and complete permit submissions. • Track permit status across municipal, DOT, railroad, utility, and environmental jurisdictions. • Manage permit review cycles, comments, resubmittals, and approvals through closure. • Oversee vendor questions related to permitting requirements, jurisdiction-specific documentation, bonds, and insurance certificates. • Escalate permitting delays or risks that may impact construction readiness. • Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for Construction, Permitting, and Deployment teams. • Coordinate deliverables across internal engineering resources, external engineering firms, and field survey providers. • Facilitate regular cross-functional status meetings to align schedules, priorities, risks, and readiness. • Manage scope, schedules, and performance of external engineering and survey vendors, enforcing contractual timelines and expectations. • Escalate quality, completeness, or schedule issues to Fiber Engineering leadership as needed. • Maintain accurate project tracking dashboards, logs, and status reports for engineering and permitting progress. • Provide regular updates to the Fiber Engineering Manager on engineering status, permit timelines, risks, and construction readiness. • Support forecasting of engineering completion and permit approval timelines. • Help define, standardize, and improve engineering workflows, milestones, and handoff criteria. • Identify systemic issues impacting throughput or schedule and recommend process improvements to support scale across multiple markets.

• Provide leadership, guidance, and project management methodologies to plan, monitor and implement projects so that they will complete on time and within budget assuring the solution aligns with / meets the business objective. • With the Project Leader, serve as the key point of contact for the project and request appropriate resources based on required skill sets. • Ensure resource managers are aware of the level of commitment required of team members. • Keeps up-to-date and educated in skills related to all project management and ensures this information is disseminated throughout the process. • Educates team members in project management principles, methods, processes and tools and provides input to team members' performance appraisal process. • Define execution plan and approach based on project scope, expected timeline and budget/resources. • Coordinates the daily/weekly project team assignments and monitors progress against the work plan to assure that objectives are met within the prescribed time, cost, and quality measures. • Evaluate changes in scope and schedule, assess impact on project plan, and coordinate recommendations to the leadership team for adjustments in the project scheduled/budget. • Provide effective and timely project communications to the project team and key stakeholders, including project status reports and other required reporting. • Work with remote technical team members to coordinate day-to-day execution as per outlined plan. • Cooperate with and manage external vendors as required. • Collaborate with business and functional partners and technology leadership in defining features backlog and specifying requirements. • Drive technology discussion and strategy in line with business needs and company reference architecture. • Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies. Partner with technical and functional teams external to the project to ensure their tasks are completed as required. • Manage project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout the life of the project. • Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting. • Ensure quality of deliverables is verified and matching stakeholder expectations. • Track project outcomes realization and customer satisfaction levels through established metrics against service level. Ensure lessons learned are collected. • Works with impacted Business Units to ensure a quality implementation of project deliverables (technology, training, documentation, etc.) and that the new solution is adopted and new process control procedures are in place. • Reviews project work products/deliverables to assure results align with the methodology/support the project objectives.