Network Deployment Operations Manager - Banking & Finance

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Join a specialist field operations company delivering the deployment, maintenance, and support of wireless network infrastructure for some of the most performance-critical organizations across the United States. The organization provides end-to-end field services that help deliver reliable, large-scale network infrastructure projects.

This company is seeking a Deployment Operations Manager to lead a team across field operations, construction, and logistics while overseeing end-to-end project delivery. This Chicago-based leadership role focuses on coordinating resources, ensuring projects progress efficiently from planning through commissioning, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity and apply today!

Responsibilities:

• Lead field, construction, and logistics teams as a single execution unit, clear ownership, performance expectations, and escalation paths
• Own the operating cadence that translates project priorities into assigned, actionable work across all functions
• Maintain a consolidated view of what's ready, blocked, or waiting, across high-volume concurrent projects
• Partner with site acquisition, RF, and network design teams to keep dependencies scoped, assigned, and tracked
• Own delivery of execution-stage projects end to end, schedule, critical path, vendor and permitting milestones, and network turn-up
• Ensure material readiness aligns to project schedules, BOMs, transfer orders, warehouse activity, and shipment-to-site tracking
• Track contractor compliance and keep vendor schedules, licensing, insurance, and change orders on track
• Own post-incident follow-through so immediate recovery becomes a durable process fix
• Provide concise, milestone-based project status to leadership, risks, blockers, and decisions surfaced early
• Cover for Construction Manager and Field Manager during absences to keep operations running seamlessly
• US-wide field operations across multiple sites
• 5–6 direct reports

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 5+ years in operations, construction, field services, or deployment management, with direct people management experience
• Proven project management capability across multiple concurrent projects, schedules, critical path, vendor and permitting milestones
• Strong command of materials and logistics flow, BOMs, transfer orders, inventory, shipment tracking
• Comfortable operating at both tactical level (crew dispatched today) and delivery level (multi-month project on track)
• Excellent follow-through, clear communication, and a bias for operational clarity
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and tight cross-team coordination
• 5+ years experience required

Desirable Skills:

• Telecom, wireless infrastructure, data center, utility, or comparable technical operations environment
• Familiarity with site commissioning, network turn-up, and outage window planning
• Experience with preventative maintenance programs and post-incident process improvement
• Fluency with operational tooling, Jira or similar work-tracking systems
• Experience supporting site acquisition, permitting, and construction handoff workflows
• PMP or CAPM certification a plus, not required

Location & Working Pattern:

• Chicago, IL
• Onsite Monday to Friday

Benefits:

• Mission-critical infrastructure, the networks you deploy matter enormously to the organizations that run on them
• Real operational authority, you lead the team, own the cadence, and make execution decisions
• Variety at every level, tactical dispatch today, multi-month program delivery tomorrow
• High-performance environment, a specialist business working with some of the most demanding clients in the market
• Chicago HQ with travel to field sites, grounded in one place with visibility across the whole US operation

Salary:

• Competitive Salary