Great Plains Communications is looking for a dependable, organized leader to manage a team of project managers to ensure strict deadlines are met. This manager will closely monitor projects to ensure timeliness while staying within budget as well as ensuring consistency with the company’s strategies, commitments, and goals. This position will be involved with complex initiatives, working with multiple internal departments as well as our external customers.
Duties include:
Successful candidate must have strong customer relationship skills, time management skills, and written and verbal communications skills. Must also possess the ability to think strategically and to work effectively with a diverse group of co-workers and customers.
Bachelor’s degree in preferred. PMP, CAPM, Agile, Six Sigma, and/or other industry-recognized project management certifications is a plus.
Competitive salary and benefits provided. EOE.
Great Plains Communications is one of the largest privately-owned telecommunications providers in the Midwest, serving communities throughout Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado and Southeastern Indiana. Business and enterprise services range from traditional and cloud-based voice and data products to installation and support of strategic networks with fully scalable, managed Ethernet solutions. The company also takes pride in its progressive approach to accommodating the unique needs of wholesale customers, including regional and national telecommunications carriers, LECs, ISPs, wireless and other providers utilizing superior custom engineering and custom-build strategies. In addition, the company serves residential customers with an impressive suite of services including high speed Internet, cable and streaming video, and local and long-distance telephone services. At the core of its service offering is an extensive 13,500+- mile, MEF certified regional fiber network reaching 13 states that is fully supported by a 24x7x365, Network Operations Center.
Founded in 1910 by E.C. Hunt as a Nebraska phone company, Great Plains Communications has evolved over the past century, keeping pace with technology and increasing bandwidth demands to become a leading regional network and fiber services provider.
The company is headquartered in Blair, Nebraska and is owned by Grain Management, LLC: a leading private equity firm focused on investments in the Communications sector.
