Network Decommissioning Project Manager - San Francisco

Job Description and Benefits

Entegro has been engaged by a key client to support the decommissioning of legacy telecommunications infrastructure under a formal Statement of Work across multiple US locations.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders throughout programme delivery
• Coordinating all project activities in alignment with approved Work Orders and programme schedules
• Managing overall project governance, administrative oversight, and operational reporting
• Maintaining accurate programme schedules and deployment tracking across all assigned sites
• Ensuring field teams execute work in accordance with the approved SOW and client operational procedures
• Managing project risks, blockers, dependencies, and escalations to resolution
• Serving as the primary interface between Entegro, field delivery teams, and client stakeholders
• Supporting mobilisation planning, site sequencing, and deployment readiness activities
• Coordinating Found-in-Field (Change Management) approval workflows with client stakeholders, including commercial approvals
• Monitoring project performance against schedule, quality, and reporting requirements
• Ensuring all required deliverables are completed prior to project closeout and invoicing
• Conducting weekly progress meetings with client stakeholders
• Preparing and presenting weekly status updates covering completed work, upcoming activities, schedule performance, risks, dependencies, and Found-in-Field discoveries
• Maintaining meeting minutes, action trackers, and documented follow-ups after each governance session
• Providing timely communication to stakeholders regarding field issues, delays, or operational risks
• Coordinating closely with field engineers, client engineering teams, and programme leadership to maintain alignment
• Escalating out-of-scope activities or customer-impact risks appropriately and without delay
• Managing programme reporting through client applications and systems, and associated client systems
• Maintaining Excel-based project trackers documenting:
• Site locations
• Scheduled and actual completion dates
• Quantity of devices decommissioned
• Found-in-Field activities
• Remobilisations
• Risks, blockers, and status notes
• Verifying field documentation completeness, including daily logs, LOTO documentation, and before/after photographs
• Ensuring all operational records are accurate, audit-ready, and submitted in accordance with programme requirements
• Ensuring all work orders are tracked to commercial milestones
• Supporting invoicing validation through accurate unit tracking and reporting alignment

Skills required

• Proven experience managing telecommunications, network infrastructure, or data centre deployment programmes in live operational environments
• Experience coordinating field-based deployment or decommissioning teams across multiple locations
• Strong understanding of project governance, scheduling, risk management, and operational reporting
• Experience leading customer-facing programme meetings and stakeholder communications
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced operational environment
• Experience using project tracking, work order, or field management systems such as NetPal, FieldTech, or equivalent
• Advanced competency with Excel-based project trackers and reporting
• Ability to maintain accurate operational documentation and audit-ready reporting records
• Familiarity with legacy telecommunications infrastructure and decommissioning methodologies
• Experience managing Found-in-Field or any change-control workflows and processes
• Familiarity with central office, colocation, or data centre operational environments
• Experience supporting project invoicing validation and milestone reporting
• OSHA 10 OR OSHA 30 certification, desirable but not essential
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification (or equivalent experience)
• Degree or technical qualification in Telecommunications, Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline
• Adaptable. Comfortable operating across changing priorities, schedules, and deployment environments

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in telecommunications project management, network deployment, or infrastructure operations
• Experience supporting field operations across geographically dispersed sites
• Willingness to travel within the United States as required by programme delivery needs
• Clear communicator, capable of managing customer expectations and operational escalations professionally
• Strong leadership and coordination capability, able to drive accountability across field and stakeholder teams
• Highly organised and process-driven, able to maintain control across multiple concurrent deployment activities
• Safety-first mindset, prioritises operational safety and customer network integrity above schedule pressure
• Disciplined and methodical approach to governance, reporting, and operational compliance
• Decisive problem-solver, able to rapidly assess operational risks and coordinate corrective actions
• Integrity. Escalates risks, deviations, or out-of-scope requests appropriately rather than bypassing process