The Purpose of the Role

A Network Designer will take ownership of 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 to drive and effect innovations and improvements to the Freedom Fibre Design Team performance and methodologies.

Facilitate a clear focus on the organisation, supply partners and individuals in the delivery of strategic initiatives that will provide assurances to our network ownership, CPP and data quality requirements.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for the governance of works in compliance with guidelines and codes of practice.
• Applying data quality within our asset and customer management systems
• Driving consistency, quality, suitability, and cost-effectiveness
• Working with vendors to improve our performance efficiency
• Ensuring and overseeing design acceptance
• Ensuring as-builts are received, checked for data compliance and stored
• 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 the wider team in the technical and commercial evaluation of new CPP innovations
• Assist to create, refine and maintain effective productivity and performance monitoring and reporting systems
• Ensure that relevant Design rules, standards and processes are defined and documented
• Work to achieve departmental and individual KPIs

Requirements

• Qualification (or extensive experience) in civils and fibre network planning and design for UK deployment
• Thorough understanding of Freedom Fibre architectures and components
• Thorough understanding of Openreach’s PIA product and it’s applied usage
• Expert-level knowledge of FTTH/P network architecture, components and usage
• Based within a commutable distance of Freedom Fibre networks
• Thorough understanding of Diversionary Works code of practice and its execution within Freedom Fibre
• Qualifications (or extensive experience) in recognised continuous improvement methodologies
• Good working knowledge of APX, DPComm

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
• Has an expert level knowledge of FTTH/P passive network architecture/components and industry trends
• 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.