FNIS Associate

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Fiber Network Inventory Specialist (FNIS) who will report to the Fiber Planning, Architecture & Technology organization under a specific team within the Network Data Integrity department. This team's responsibilities involve building new network into our fiber inventory systems, recovering missing fiber network, and improving data quality overall for our fiber plant records. This team is critical to the front line of our network data quality, specifically by adhering to our standards and nomenclature which support our customer service platform and GIS analysis tools. The Fiber Network Inventory Specialist (FNIS) will also involve various efforts in alignment with fiber engineering and operations teams, and the overall integrity of our fiber network infrastructure.

Location: Remote Colorado Preferred

Responsibilities:

• Recover and interpret civil engineering prints (asbuilts) of new network installs to manually build fiber assets and construction details into GIS inventory systems, specifically GE Smallworld.

• Assists with data cleanup and QC in fiber inventory systems.

• Manages Zayo network inventory through database tracking of fiber optic cable, conduit, building data, and more.

• Organizes and tracks all tasks and dependencies, and reports on missing or inaccurate data.

• Provides support to fiber engineering and outside plant construction teams as needed.

• Works alongside fiber network and GIS analyst teams to ensure data accuracy.

• Assists in areas of design and development to improve network integrity and support fiber engineering projects.

Qualifications:

• Degree or background in engineering a plus; Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, GIS, Telecom, and/or related major.

• Interest in telecommunications and fiber optics.

• Proven aptitude to prioritize tasks and timelines while cross functioning in a fast-paced environment independently.

• Possesses strong organizational and communicative skills, both oral and written.

• Extremely detail oriented and understand importance of data quality.

• This is not a data entry position; must be a creative thinker with strong problem solving abilities.

• Proven teamwork success abilities are preferred.

• Ability to work with minimal supervision while being a constructive contributor to a team.

• Supports company objectives and takes initiative to accomplish goals.

• Proficiency in MS Office and Adobe; in particular MS Visio and MS Excel.

• GIS and Google Earth experience a plus.

• Prior experience with GE Smallworld or other fiber inventory system preferred.

Estimated base pay range: $27.64 - $34.57 USD/hour.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.

Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.