Position Description • Lyte Fiber is seeking a highly skilled OSP Engineering Permit Specialist to oversee the preparation and acquisition of all necessary permits and approvals for our fiber optic network construction and maintenance projects. • The OSP Engineering Permit Specialist is responsible for providing the highest level of network reliability through on-time permitting submissions and approvals for both underground and aerial fiber construction. • The OSP Engineering Permit Specialist must have expertise in the OSP permitting processes to obtain encroachment permits, joint pole use management, utility pole permitting and make-ready construction in addition to a strong understanding of OSP engineering, field engineering and construction practices for both underground and aerial placement. • The ideal candidate for this role should feel comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with excellent planning and forecasting skills Duties And Responsibilities • *Permit Preparation and Management** • Lead the permit application process of all OSP projects, ensuring timely submission and approval. • Research and liaise with local, state and federal agencies to acquire permits and ensure compliance with regulations and provide regular updates as required. • Prepare, track and manage permit packages and applications addressing any issues that arise. • Identify long lead permit requirements (DOT, RR, etc.) and ensure these permits are submitted and obtained as early as possible not to delay construction. • Perform Make-Ready analysis for aerial routes and review/approve Pole Attachment applications. • Review structural evaluations of utility poles using PLA (pole loading analysis) software. • Maintain accurate records of all permits, approvals, and related documents for each project. • Ensure that all permitting requirements (e.g., environmental, zoning, right-of-way) are met before any construction activities begin. • Collaborate with the OSP engineering team, construction teams, and external contractors to ensure permit needs are identified and met. • Handle any permit-related issues that may arise during the planning or construction phases. • Work proactively with local authorities to resolve permit disputes or delays. • *Planning, Quality Control and Reporting** • Perform review of permitting packages to ensure adherence to permitting authority and Lyte Fiber standards. • Review work packages to ensure quality and comprehensiveness in preparation of assignment for both internal and external resources. • Provide input on best practices, permit processes and field construction methods in support of implementing efficient and cost -effective solutions. • Report weekly on the number of FTTH passings/serving areas by permitting status: not started, in progress, submitted, approved, ready for construction. • Set and manage priorities for contractors and teammates. • Work with PMO to assist in the preparation of project timelines, provide regular updates on schedule and identify critical permitting milestones and provide solutions to mitigate delays. • Organize and maintain revisions of project deliverables. • *Additional Responsibilities** • Attends various meetings with management, departments, and vendors to ensure company objectives are met. • Provide weekly reports and update management on status and issues. • Updates internal permit tracking reports and schedules. • Maintains detailed records and reports related to all communication and interaction with permitting agencies. Other Duties • Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. • Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice. Minimum Qualifications • Associate degree r equivalent experience preferred. • A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Permit specialist is preferred. • A minimum of 5 years of experience in telecommunications permitting or engineering preferred • Ability to travel for business requirements; possess a valid Drivers License with a satisfactory driving record. • Ability to communicate orally and in writing and give effective presentations to Supervisors and Managers. • Additionally, able to constructively escalate problems and issues. • Ability to work independently and with a team of senior-level engineers and supervisors to develop solutions to complete assigned tasks. • Expert knowledge of outside plant engineering, field design methods, and Telecom products.Working knowledge of city/county/DOT/Railroad permit process. • Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook • AutoCAD or similar tool experience is recommended. • Experience in GIS software (ArcGIS, 3GIS, Vetro Fiber, IQGeo, or similar) is required. • Experience in PLA (Pole Loading Analysis) software is a plus. • Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments • *About Lyte Fiber** • Founded in 2023 in Houston, Texas, Lyte Fiber is dedicated to providing the fastest and most reliable home and business fiber optic internet to communities across Texas and beyond. • Formed in partnership with SDC Capital Partners, a leading digital infrastructure investment firm, Lyte was started by internet industry veterans passionate about offering a best-in-class customer experience, building a great workplace, and connecting Texas communities. • As part of its commitment to each community it serves, Lyte pledges a 1 percent giveback to local charities and causes annually. • For more information, visit www.lytefiber.com. Lyte Fiber, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and sexual orientation), gender identity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, genetic information, age, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by federal or Texas law. Applicants who believe they need an accommodation on account of a disability or sincerely held religious belief to perform the essential functions of the job they are applying for, should submit those requests to HR. Requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and cannot be guaranteed
See More Details >>Chief Building Engineer Supervisor Job ID 219708 Posted 12-May-2025 Service line GWS Segment Role type Full-time Areas of Interest Engineering/Maintenance Location(s) Kingsville - Texas - United States of America About the Role: As a CBRE Chief Building Engineer Supervisor, you will supervise the team responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing ongoing maintenance and repair operations for a facility, a campus, or a portfolio of buildings. This job is part of the Engineering and Technical Services job function. They are responsible for providing support, preventive maintenance, and repairs on equipment and systems. What You’ll Do: • Track the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and provide coaching opportunities. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees. • Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed. • Develop, implement, and communicate preventive maintenance programs and safety procedure manuals. • Ensure that the mechanics and technicians have the proper information and materials about assignments to complete work activities in a high-quality and timely fashion. • Develop material and labor cost estimates for work orders, preventative maintenance activities, systems, and construction projects. • Establish and maintain budgets for facilities maintenance. • Respond to emergency situations and ask for help when needed. • Apply advanced knowledge to seek and develop new, better methods for accomplishing both individual and department objectives. • Showcase expertise in own job discipline and in-depth knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function. • Coach others to develop in-depth knowledge and expertise in most or all areas within the function. • Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels and of divergent interest, to adopt a different point of view. • Impact the achievement of customer, operational, project, or service objectives across multi-discipline teams. Work is guided by functional policies which impact the design of procedures and policies. • Contribute to new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans in support of achieving functional goals. • Communicate difficult and complex ideas with the ability to influence. What You’ll Need: • High School Diploma, GED, or trade school diploma with 5-8 years of job-related experience. In lieu of a diploma, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Prior shift manager or supervisory experience preferred. • Meet the physical requirements of this role including stooping, standing, walking, climbing stairs/ladders, and the ability to lift/carry heavy loads of 50 lbs. or more. • The innovative mentality to develop methods that go beyond existing solutions. • Ability to solve unique problems using standard and innovative solutions having a broad impact on the business. • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. • Expert organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset. • Highly sophisticated math skills. Ability to calculate somewhat complex figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations. Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE has a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company’s success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).
See More Details >>You will serve as an Engineer or Architect in the the Public Works Department of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic. • *Above salary does not include locality. Locality adjustment will be determined by duty station location once a selection has been made.** This position is a 100% TDY position to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa. This is a full-time temporary assignment not to exceed 1 year. May be filled as a temporary promotion or temporary reassignment.Qualifications:In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as: 1) Using advanced concepts, principles, and practices in engineering/architecture to enable the incumbent to serve as an expert in the complex multiple engineering areas of consultation, design, and construction; 2) Using computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, electronic mail, Internet, and database software to perform most daily tasks; and 3) Working with other government professionals, client representatives of various backgrounds and experience bases, contractor management and labor personnel, and others as necessary. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/architecture-series-0808/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Work Environment: Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa is located in a harsh environmental setting with adverse weather conditions for many months of the year (excessive heat, humidity, and rain) and working in areas populated by poisonous snakes, plants, and/or insects, and contagious diseases and poor air quality, chemical handling areas, and damp and unheated spaces. The work may require extensive work shifts of 12-16 hours a day and more than a 5 day workweek. Generally, indoor work location has power, water, heating and air conditioning, although outages should be expected. The incumbent will be required to live on the camp, where living quarters are a container living unit (CLU), which may be very cramped with the requirement to share bathroom facilities. Initial living quarters may be a tent. Fatigue may occur from long work hours and uncomfortable living conditions. The position may be required to provide immediate contingency support requiring a physical and immunizations deemed necessary for the environment in which this support is provided. Incumbent is entitled to 25% Post Differential pay. Potential benefits for working in Djibouti: Ability to gain international work experience. Professional development by working in an area at the forefront of construction and community growth. High potential for overtime pay. Local Market Supplement (based on parent command location) Imminent Danger Pay - $225/month (first 42 days) Post Differential Allowance - currently 25% of base pay (beginning day 43+)Education:FOR THE ENGINEER SERIES: Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration for more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.ORSuccessful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. FOR THE ARCHITECT SERIES: Applicants for the Professional Architecture Series must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in architecture. OR Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in a field related to architecture that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems. OR Have a combination of college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The curriculum for a degree is in either architecture or architectural engineering and covers function, esthetics, site, structure, economics, mechanical-electrical, and other engineering problems related to the design and construction of buildings primarily (but not exclusively) intended to house human activities OR you lack a degree in architecture, but have 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture that demonstrates that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture. (Note - In the absence of college courses, 5 years of such experience is required).Employment Type: FULL_TIME
See More Details >>Embarking on a career in the mechanical trade in Kingsville, TX, often begins with an apprenticeship that blends practical experience with classroom instruction, enabling individuals to earn while they learn. Apprenticeships typically span three to four years, demanding extensive training under seasoned professionals. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 228 mechanical trade professionals in Kingsville, TX, with wages averaging $312.75 per week. The job market is projected to grow at a rate of 11% from 2023 to 2033, significantly outpacing the national average. Trade schools, unions, and platforms like HireLevel facilitate apprenticeship opportunities, leading to a rewarding career with strong earning potential—often exceeding $87,000 annually for experienced professionals.
