Fibre Planner and Designer

6 days ago


Sydney, Australia VOCUS Full time

Work from anywhere 3 days a week and 2 in the office
- We know how to celebrate our wins and we know learning from our mistakes
- Let you be a master of your own style with no dress code.

**Location: Sydney & Melbourne**

Vocus is crazy about customers. We’re also crazy about our people. We empower them to
**Do it. Own it. Love it **and that’s why they choose to work for us. We care about the impact we have, and that’s what connects us. Whoever you are, you'll fit right into our team of 1400 personalities.

And as you help us disrupt our industry, we’ll support you to be ‘the best you’, at Vocus and at home.

**What’s the opportunity?**

As a Fibre Planner & Designer, you are responsible for the Planning and Design of the Vocus Fibre network.

**What’s the day to day?**
- Provide sales with pre-sales designs and estimate cost for connection requests and bids
- Monitor and manage network capacity creating new, network upgrade and network re-arrangement orders where required.
- Plan and design Optical fibre paths utilising multiple assets including third party leased assets and civil construction including but not limited to new connections, capacity upgrades, network extensions, relocations and cancellations.
- Plan and design Optical fibre paths for all fibre circuits, including but not limited to new connections, capacity upgrades, network extensions, relocations and cancellations.
- Provide plans to the designs created.
- Comply with and monitor Safety In Design Concepts whilst designing the Vocus Fibre Network.
- Manage fibre records across the national network
- Creation of splice schedules/designs for allocation to Workforce and contractors
- Provide direction as appropriate to the Workforce and contractors on carrying out allocated tasks
- Provide various reports and other duties as requested by management
- Ensure services are delivered within times specified in contract
- Assistance in fault situations during core business hours
- Liaise with multiple stakeholders strategically to extend the Vocus Network
- Provide support to new Technology introductions.
- Plan and design new Technologies onto the Vocus Fibre network
- Proactively identify possible improvements to systems and processes
- Involvement in implementation of improved systems and processe

**What you will need to be successful**:

- Previous experience in telecommunications in a similar role
- High level of experience planning out projects
- Good computer literacy
- High level experience using Microsoft software and GIS based systems
- Excellent communications skills
- Ability to work effectively within a team
- High level of customer service skills
- Strong attention to detail

**The extra stuff we know you want to know**

We know how to celebrate our wins and we know learning from our mistakes makes us better. We are all about flexible working and, hand on heart, we practise work life balance. We high five you on your work anniversary and give you a day off. We know time off is important for balance, so we have an option to buy more leave. We embrace your unique style and let you be a master of your own style with no dress code. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so jump on our careers site or LinkedIn to find out more

**Did I hear you say, “Who is Vocus?”**

We are a challenger business in the Telco and Energy Industry. We listened to our customers and heard that they wanted more from a network, so that’s what we’ve given them.
- We built the network thanks to our own team of highly skilled fibre engineers.
- We own our network giving us easier, straightforward access.
- We manage our network here in Australia out of our Melbourne offices.

We now have more than 20,000 km of fibre optic cable laid and operational throughout Australia, 5000 on-net buildings connected to our network.

We have the best employee benefits such as telecommunication and utility discounts, the ability to purchase leave, anniversary leave, and awesome parental leave benefits. Best of all we believe in flexibility and fitting your job into your life - Vocus is quite simply just a great place to work.

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