The Purpose of the Role

The primary function of the Senior GIS Technician/Planner is to manage, analyse and transform large spatial datasets from a number of differing systems, describing fibre network architectures.

A secondary function is to support the Design and Planning Team in all aspects of the network design, working to strict deadlines, while being flexible to meet change requirements when needed; this will include liaison with surveyors, build assurance engineers, build coordinators and other internal and external stakeholders and suppliers.

The role is also empowered to drive and effect innovations and improvements to the Freedom Fibre Design Team performance and methodologies.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for the governance of network asset data in line with best practice.
• Work closely with the IT team on projects to store, move and translate large datasets
• Applying data quality within our asset and customer management systems
• Ensuring as-builts are received, checked for data compliance and stored correctly
• Driving consistency, quality, suitability, and cost-effectiveness in network designs
• Ensuring and overseeing design acceptance
• Investigate across all comparable industries and evaluate where systems, methods or components may be beneficial to Freedom Fibre and its strategic aims
• Work with activity owners and assist with problem resolution and support issue resolution escalations if appropriate
• Assist to create, refine and maintain effective productivity and performance monitoring and reporting systems
• Work to achieve departmental and individual KPIs

Requirements

Essential

• Thorough understanding and mastery of GIS data/metadata and it’s potential within an infrastructure/service provider
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure and capabilities with respect to GIS deployments
• Based within a commutable distance of Freedom Fibre networks
• Experience (or capability to quickly learn) civils and fibre network planning and design for UK deployment

Desirable

• Knowledge of FTTH/P network architecture, components and usage
• Understanding of Freedom Fibre architectures and components
• Understanding of Openreach’s PIA product and it’s applied usage
• Working knowledge of APX, DPComm or similar infrastructure-specific GIS packages

Personal Attributes

• Strong track record in delivering results in a fast paced and complex workspace
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Maintain excellent working relationships with the Freedom Fibre teams and partner organisations
• A natural team player
• Well-developed troubleshooting skills and methodologies
• Commercial awareness
• Willingness and ability to travel to site or partner locations regularly and at short notice

Reporting to

Head of Design and Planning

Working with Freedom Fibre

We operate in a relaxed and industrious atmosphere; you will be encouraged to speak out and contribute wherever you feel you have something to offer. Our offices are open 07:00 through to 18:00 and we are happy to be flexible with working hours so you can enjoy a relatively stress-free commute or work from home to create the best possible work life balance that suits you and Freedom Fibre.

We offer an attractive package including bonus, generous pension, private health care and flexible working along with other benefits.

Freedom Fibre recognise the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred 2nd tier Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.

As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred 2nd tier Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.

Submission of any unsolicited CV's and proposals to Freedom Fibre will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of these terms and agreement that these terms are the totality of any commercial or contractual relationship whatsoever in respect of the candidate(s) whose unsolicited CV's were sent.