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Worcester, Gb

Skills and Duties:- A point of contact for a team of planners to advise on technical FTTP design queries.- Quality check work to ensure it adheres to client specification.- Holding a lead role in finding efficiencies in working practices to meet strict deadlines.- Meeting with local councils, build contractors, wayleave specialists and more to overcome obstacles in delivery.- Overseeing the input of designs into a GIS system.- Applying CDM health & safety & NRSWA practices to all deliverables.- Conducting site visits to verify plans are workable and cost-effective. Achievements:- Project managed an additional contract allocating fibres on existing networks for new customers. Producing a new design process and re-scoping of a legacy programme to deliver efficient plans.- Hand-picked to train peers on all elements of HFC, FTTP & PIA planning, and establishing progression paths for them to work towards. - Rewriting the company guidelines on PIA design processes.

Droitwich, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

- Planning and design of FTTP and HFC telecoms networks.- Creating civil and cabling plans cost effectively and to the latest specification.- Liaising with local authorities, landlords, survey teams and build contractors.- Ensuring plans are CDM Health & Safety/NRSWA compliant.- Using CAD and Visio to create supporting documents.- Interpreting site survey data and processing photographs using Microsoft Office.- Producing an as-built record of existing duct routes and drafting onto GIS.- Generating a bill of materials and purchase orders.- Conducting utility searches, submitting power requests and creating wayleave packs for leaseholders.- Testing Virgin Media's new work-pack submissions portal, NExFlow.

- Reviewing telecoms as-built work packages from design and build contractors.- Issuing approvals and rejections for work submitted to Network Rail.- Chasing up missing documents and signatures that were required for approval.- Stipulating amendments to work to bring it in line with the specification.- Liaising with the Senior Project Engineer for continuity of reviews.- Logging updates in the tracker to quantify monthly approval numbers.

Worcester, United Kingdom

- Providing support for proposed and as-built telecoms designs on the rail.- Processing survey data including sketches, manhole sheets and survey notes.- Using CAD to design new networks in the form of straight line drawings and site layout plans.- Producing accompanying work including photo sheets and Health & Safety documents using Microsoft Office.- Liaising with survey teams and project managers about technical queries.- PTS trained allowing me to conduct site visits to survey telecoms routes.- Quality checking the designs of other team members to ensure works are completed to the correct specification.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geography

Modules studied including: - Remote Sensing - GIS - Statistical Methods - Environmental Assessment - Built Forms & Physical Environment.

A-Levels & Gcses

4 A-Levels and 11 GCSEs grades A*- B including grade A in English, Maths & Sciences