Fibre Permitting Engineer (Northern)

Menara Maxis; George Town; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxis is seeking a professional to manage permitting activities for fiber OSP rollout in Malaysia. You will coordinate with vendors, local councils and authorities to ensure timely permits, reviews, and deposits processing. Strong relationships with JKR, PBT and landlords are essential.

You will work with Permitting Lead and Project Manager to ensure compliance with guidelines and timely reporting, ending with deposit recoveries within the two-year window.

Qualifications

• Experience with permitting procedures across authorities (e.g., JKR, PBT, Land Office)
• Strong technical background in Fiber OSP rollout
• Proven ability to manage vendor permitting activities and reporting to leads

Responsibilities

• Manage permitting activities by vendors; provide weekly progress updates.
• Escalate to vendors management and report to Permitting Lead and Permitting Project Manager.
• Build and maintain relationships with road owners (local councils, JKR, landlords).
• Oversee permitting submissions; review technical proposals for guideline compliance.
• Monitor CPC acceptance and trigger deposit refunds from PBT & JKR.
• Track project progress, escalate issues, and report to Permitting Lead.
• Oversee deposit recovery from LC's/JKR to complete within 2 years.

Skills

Vendor management

Permitting knowledge

Stakeholder relationship

Fiber OSP rollout

Job description

Are you ready to get ahead in your career? We want to empower you to turn your ambitions into achievements. We thrive in inclusiveness, diversity and embrace close collaborations for you to create impact for yourself and others. Together, we aim to bring the best of technology to help people, businesses and the nation to be ahead in a changing world. To realise our vision to become Malaysia’s leading converged solutions company, we are looking for a new talent to innovate and grow with us in a culture that values commitment, performance and possibilities.

Why does this job exist and why is it critical?

What are you accountable for? Responsible for daily management of permitting activities by vendors scopes shall include weekly update on progress, escalation to vendors management and reporting to Permitting Lead and Permitting Project Manager To have strong relationship with all road owners such as local councils (PBT), JKR & Landlords Managing relationship to jurisdictions and ROW contacts such as local councils (PBT), JKR & Landlords. Responsible for daily management of permitting activities by vendors scopes shall include daily update on progress, escalation to vendors management and reporting to Project Managers Working in closely with underlying rights group to identify and prepare start work permit and building access. Oversees timely permitting submission, from reviewing and endorsing the Technical Proposal are in line with the Authorities guidelines & requirement, attending JSV, ensuring UDM works/report done accordingly, pushing for the consent letter, BD/BG payment, permit follow up with PBT, JKR & Land Office. Monitor & manage all permitting activates by Vendors inclusion liaison with State appointed OSA (One Stop Agency) Monitor & manage mapping works activities by Vendors and appointed UDM companies. Records and track CPC (Certificate of Practical Completion) acceptance for all completed projects and responsible to trigger the deposit refund from each PBT & JKR Assists permitting colleagues on permitting challenges by attending the meeting on behalf and to have good relationship with local councils & authority for immediate solution. Timely tracking of project progress, escalation, and consistent reporting to Permitting Lead and Permiting Project Manager in a timely manner. At the end of project, to oversee the deposit recovery from LC's/JKR to be within 2 years period.

What do you need to have for the role?

• Good established repo with JKR, PBT, State OSA, DBKL
• Familiar with utilities permitting procedures in Semenanjung Malaysia, Sabah & Sarawak
• Strong technical background in Fiber OSP rollout

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