Head of Telecom Engineering

Actalent; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Actalent is seeking a Head of Telecom Engineering to lead the global telecom practice, shaping strategy, governance, and delivery across OSP, FTTx, fiber, and permitting.

The role drives multi-year capability development, client-focused execution, and cross-functional alignment with sales, solutioning, and finance to deliver scalable, high-impact engineering services. This executive position requires deep telecom leadership and strong commercial acumen.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, telecommunications, construction management or related field.
• 15+ years of telecom engineering experience with leadership of multi-program teams.
• Experience scaling OSP/FTTx and leading distributed delivery teams.
• Strong commercial, financial, customer-facing, and organizational-change skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute telecom engineering strategy aligned with growth priorities.
• Build a multi-year capability roadmap across OSP, FTTx, fiber and permitting.
• Translate market needs into differentiated, repeatable engineering offerings.
• Establish an operating model integrating sales, delivery, quality, and finance.

Skills

Telecom engineering leadership

Strategic planning

Client relations

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery governance

Financial management

Program management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, telecommunications, construction management

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Actalent connects passion with purpose by supporting critical engineering and sciences initiatives that help companies improve the way they serve the world. With nearly 40 years of experience, Actalent delivers scalable talent solutions, engineering expertise, and sciences services that give customers the capabilities they need to execute complex work and achieve more.

The Head of Telecom Engineering will lead the Telecom Engineering business globally with accountability for strategy, capability development, scalable delivery, technical governance, and portfolio revenue growth across OSP, FTTx, fiber, permitting, utility coordination, and related network-engineering services.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the telecom engineering practice strategy in alignment with the organization’s growth priorities.
• Build a multi-year capability roadmap across OSP, FTTx, fiber design, permitting, make-ready, joint use, and utility coordination.
• Translate market demand and customer needs into differentiated, repeatable engineering service offerings.
• Establish an operating model that integrates sales, solutioning, delivery, quality, workforce planning, and financial management.

Technical Governance & Innovation

• Set engineering standards, design methodologies, review gates, quality controls, and technical governance across programs.
• Sponsor automation, digital engineering, analytics, and workflow standardization initiatives that improve productivity and traceability.
• Maintain awareness of evolving broadband, fiber deployment, utility coordination, and regulatory requirements.
• Create communities of practice and reusable knowledge assets to strengthen consistency across accounts.
• Provide executive oversight for strategic programs, critical delivery risks, and customer escalations.
• Partner with sales and solutioning leaders on pursuits, proposals, presentations, estimates, and transition-to-delivery planning.
• Lead annual planning, capacity strategy, leadership succession, competency development, and organizational readiness.
• Promote a culture of client focus, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering integrity.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, telecommunications, construction management, or a related discipline; advanced degree is preferred.
• 15+ years of telecom engineering experience, including substantial leadership of multi-program engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated experience scaling OSP/FTTx engineering capabilities and leading distributed delivery teams.
• Strong commercial, financial, customer-facing, and organizational-change experience.