Fiber & Utilities Construction Project Manager

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Brea (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Referral program

Advancement and promotion

Job summary

Pramira, a premier general contractor in California, seeks a Project Manager to lead fiber and utility construction projects from Brea offices. You will translate awarded scopes into budgets, schedules, and weekly work plans, coordinate microtrenching, HDD, and aerial work, and manage field teams, permits, and inspections.

The role requires 5+ years in fiber/telecom project management, strong Excel and scheduling skills, and willingness to travel to sites with occasional after-hours work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in construction project management for fiber/telecom/underground utilities.
• Experience with microtrenching, HDD, and aerial construction and related budgets.
• Ability to read drawings, permits, and contracts with strong Excel / scheduling skills.
• Willingness to travel to sites and occasional after-hours work.

Responsibilities

• Turn awarded scopes into budgets, subcontracts, schedules, and weekly work plans. Confirm permits, access, materials, inspections, and utility coordination before releasing work.
• Manage all three placement methods: microtrenching, HDD or boring, and aerial construction. Coordinate handholes, vaults, conduit continuity, cable placement, and transitions between underground and aerial routes.
• For microtrenching, verify approved alignment, depth and width, duct installation, backfill, pavement restoration, and inspection records against project requirements.
• For directional boring, coordinate utility locates, potholing, bore plans and logs, conduit installation, drilling-fluid controls, and restoration with qualified field personnel.
• For aerial work, coordinate pole-owner approvals, make-ready readiness, strand and lashing or approved cable systems, aerial duct where specified, required clearances, and riser transitions.
• Coordinate foremen, superintendents, subcontractors, equipment, and material deliveries. Compare installed and accepted quantities with labor hours and planned production, and correct delays and cost overruns.
• Maintain job-cost forecasts and cost-to-complete estimates. Document scope changes, submit change orders, verify subcontractor quantities and invoices, and prepare accurate customer progress billing.
• Coordinate municipal inspectors, engineering teams, utility owners, customers, and affected residents. Resolve access conflicts, permit restrictions, field design questions, and restoration complaints.
• Partner with safety personnel and field leaders on utility-damage prevention, traffic control, excavation and aerial hazards, and corrective actions. Stop and elevate unsafe work.
• Coordinate fiber pulling or blowing, splicing, testing, punch lists, as-built records, restoration acceptance, and customer turnover. Maintain daily records and provide clear weekly status reports.

Skills

Project management

Fiber & utilities

Budgeting

Excel

Scheduling software

Education

Degree in construction management or engineering

Tools

Procore

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

GIS

Job description

Pramira, a premier general contractor in California, seeks a Project Manager to lead fiber and utility construction projects from Brea offices. You will translate awarded scopes into budgets, schedules, and weekly work plans, coordinate microtrenching, HDD, and aerial work, and manage field teams, permits, and inspections.

The role requires 5+ years in fiber/telecom project management, strong Excel and scheduling skills, and willingness to travel to sites with occasional after-hours work.