• Own and manage engineering schedules across multiple FTTH projects and markets. • Develop, maintain, and track engineering milestones including field surveys, HLD/LLD delivery, pole attachments and make-ready readiness, permitting, and construction-ready handoff. • Ensure engineering timelines align with construction start dates and release schedules. • Identify schedule risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks and proactively implement mitigation plans. • Coordinate with engineering teams and permitting specialists to ensure timely and complete permit submissions. • Track permit status across municipal, DOT, railroad, utility, and environmental jurisdictions. • Manage permit review cycles, comments, resubmittals, and approvals through closure. • Oversee vendor questions related to permitting requirements, jurisdiction-specific documentation, bonds, and insurance certificates. • Escalate permitting delays or risks that may impact construction readiness. • Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for Construction, Permitting, and Deployment teams. • Coordinate deliverables across internal engineering resources, external engineering firms, and field survey providers. • Facilitate regular cross-functional status meetings to align schedules, priorities, risks, and readiness. • Manage scope, schedules, and performance of external engineering and survey vendors, enforcing contractual timelines and expectations. • Escalate quality, completeness, or schedule issues to Fiber Engineering leadership as needed. • Maintain accurate project tracking dashboards, logs, and status reports for engineering and permitting progress. • Provide regular updates to the Fiber Engineering Manager on engineering status, permit timelines, risks, and construction readiness. • Support forecasting of engineering completion and permit approval timelines. • Help define, standardize, and improve engineering workflows, milestones, and handoff criteria. • Identify systemic issues impacting throughput or schedule and recommend process improvements to support scale across multiple markets.