Director of Network Delivery

About the role

HNM Systems is the leading tech-enabled professional services provider shaping the workforce across telecom, energy, and technology sectors, connecting top specialized talent with direct hire, contract-to-hire, and consulting opportunities that drive fiber expansion, digital infrastructure, wireless networks, and smart grid energy solutions. With a 94% success rate in talent placement and project execution, HNM Systems delivers high-impact workforce development and consulting outcomes. This opportunity to lead the delivery of major telecommunications infrastructure programs offers direct influence over construction execution, financial performance, customer commitments, and market growth. The Director will shape and scale a high-performing delivery organization while staying closely connected to how fiber networks are designed, permitted, constructed, and completed in the field, combining strategic market leadership with hands‑on operational decision‑making across complex aerial and underground network deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of multiple large‑scale telecommunications construction and network evolution programs, including aerial and underground OSP construction.
• Lead, coach, and manage a team of approximately six Project Managers, establishing clear expectations for execution, customer commitments, financial performance, reporting, risk management, and accountability.
• Build and scale market delivery capabilities by ensuring appropriate field resources, subcontractors, processes, systems, and leadership are in place to support current and future work.
• Own project planning and execution across design coordination, construction management, zoning and permitting, licensing, field implementation, system acceptance, network integration, and closeout.
• Partner with construction, engineering, procurement, operations, customers, vendors, subcontractors, municipalities, utilities, and regulatory stakeholders to drive effective execution.
• Develop and manage project plans covering scope, schedules, resources, materials, budgets, forecasts, milestones, and customer deliverables.
• Maintain accountability for portfolio financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, WIP, backlog, cost controls, capital expenditures, resource allocation, change orders, and project profitability.
• Use KPIs, dashboards, project controls, SiteTracker, Power BI, and similar systems to monitor performance, identify trends, anticipate delivery risks, and drive corrective action.
• Establish operating rhythms and performance indicators that provide clear visibility into construction production, financial results, schedule adherence, resource utilization, risks, and customer commitments.
• Identify operational bottlenecks, resource constraints, process gaps, and execution risks before they affect milestones or customer expectations.
• Conduct field observations as needed to understand construction conditions, resolve escalated issues, and verify that work is being completed safely and according to plans, specifications, and contractual requirements.