Senior OSP Controls Project Manager

Company DescriptionZayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

The Senior Project Manager, Long Haul Controls leads the controls framework supporting Long Haul OSP projects from initial handoff into Construction through closeout. The role ensures projects are established correctly, follow required controls and reporting standards, maintain schedule and risk discipline, meet quality and compliance process requirements, and remain visible throughout the delivery lifecycle.

The Senior Project Manager provides independent controls governance across the project lifecycle, driving consistency, challenging gaps directly, ensuring corrective actions are completed, and escalating material risks or issues to the Director as needed.

The Senior Project Manager partners closely with Construction, Engineering, Contracts, Capital Controls, Materials/Supply Chain, upstream delivery teams, and external vendors. The role also plays a key part in designing and continuously improving the Long Haul controls operating model, reporting framework, risk process, vendor scorecards, and project standards.

Position / Team Responsibilities Project Intake & Controls Setup - Lead the Controls intake process for new Long Haul construction projects, ensuring each project enters execution with clear ownership, complete setup, and the required controls in place.

• Ensure projects are accurately established in Salesforce, SiteTracker, and required reporting/tracking tools, including consistent project identifiers, links, milestones, and core project data.
• Coordinate with Construction and cross-functional partners to ensure the appropriate team, functional owners, and responsibilities are established before execution begins.
• Establish the standard project kickoff framework and ensure new projects launch with clear cross-functional ownership, responsibilities, and Controls expectations.
• Establish and maintain standard project reporting templates, required fields, source links, cadence, and minimum reporting expectations across the Long Haul portfolio.

Project Health, Schedule Adherence & Operating Cadence

• Ensure project schedules, milestones, deliverables, production forecasts, and project trackers are established and maintained by the responsible Construction teams in accordance with program standards.
• Monitor adherence to contract and program schedule requirements; identify deviations, confirm appropriate recovery plans or escalations are in place, and maintain visibility to unresolved exceptions.
• Own the recurring Controls operating cadence, including weekly project updates, risk refreshes, vendor scorecards, controls reviews, and readiness of the consolidated portfolio view used for leadership reporting and decision-making.
• Validate the completeness, consistency, and reliability of project-level schedule, risk, quality, compliance, and milestone information used to roll up portfolio health.
• Partner with Contracts to define schedule, milestone, reporting, quality, and project-control requirements for inclusion in RFPs and contracts.

Quality, Compliance & Corrective-Action Governance

• Own the quality and compliance governance process by ensuring required reviews, inspections, documentation, and acceptance activities occur at the appropriate points in the project lifecycle.
• Partner with the technical Quality/Standards resource, Engineering, and Construction to ensure technical findings are documented, assigned, tracked...