Transport Engineering Director

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What you’ll be doing...

As the Transport Engineering Director, you will provide strategic executive leadership and operational oversight for the Interoffice Facilities (IOF) Metro Transport engineering organization. You will direct the engineering planning, architecture, capacity management, design, and provisioning of Verizon’s next-generation Intelligent Edge Network (iEN) and legacy metro transport infrastructures across designated metro regions. In this role, you will lead a high-performing, multi-tiered engineering workforce, steward multi-million dollar capital and operational expenditure budgets, accelerate legacy modernization and site decommission programs, and champion digital transformation through automation and AI enablement.

• Directing end-to-end transport engineering operations across regional IOF metro networks, overseeing both Center and Field Engineering disciplines.
• Leading strategic planning for interoffice transport facilities, ensuring optimal capacity management, route diversity, and rapid inventory creation across all metro markets.
• Driving an "iEN-first" architectural strategy while safeguarding network reliability and service continuity across legacy (VzB, VzT, VzW, VzF) and next-generation platforms.
• Championing regional legacy migration initiatives, including Access Unification (AU), TDM-to-IP grooms, circuit disconnects, and equipment power-down programs to yield multi-million dollar annual expense reductions.
• Overseeing technical facility real estate exit and compression strategies (e.g., central office consolidation, non-directional facility rationalization), balancing corporate asset value against uninterrupted customer delivery.
• Mitigating supply chain and legacy hardware risks (such as vendor manufacture-discontinue notices) by establishing forward-looking replacement and modernization roadmaps.
• Overseeing substantial annual CAPEX and OPEX allocations, driving disciplined capital deployment, accurate run-rate forecasting, and unit-cost reduction across transport programs.
• Ensuring predictable delivery of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure projects supporting 5G optimization, Switched Ethernet Services (SES), Ultra Long Haul (ULH) offloads, NG-PON2, and major enterprise/public events.
• Sponsoring and directing the implementation of AI, automation, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bot tools across manual engineering, provisioning, and inventory workflows.
• Partnering with IT and systems teams on Next-Gen OSS integration, driving adoption of tools such as ICON, Nautilus, COFFEE, ACTP, and modern data visualization dashboards.
• Fostering seamless partnerships with Fiber Access Engineering, Field and Center Operations, Construction, Network Facility Optimization & Decommissioning, Network Planning, Decom PMO and NMC.
• Managing strategic technical relationships with key network equipment manufacturers (including Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Nokia) to steer product roadmaps and resolve escalations.
• Leading, mentoring, and inspiring a diverse team of senior managers, engineers, and technical professionals across geographically dispersed markets.
• Championing talent incubation programs, succession planning, technical upskilling, and culture.
• Fostering constructive labor relations and maintain positive collaboration with associate teams within collective bargaining agreement (CBA) guidelines where applicable.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Ten or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Proven leadership experience directing larger, geographically distributed engineering or network operations teams.
• Deep technical expertise in Interoffice Facilities (IOF), Metro Transport architectures, optical transport systems (DWDM/ROADM), Ethernet/IP switching, and legacy transport topologies.
• Proven track record leading large-scale network decommissioning, central office site compression, and real estate exit programs.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical strategies and operational metrics to executive leadership.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Even better if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related technical field.
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Telecommunications, or an MBA.
• In-depth knowledge of Verizon's Intelligent Edge Network (iEN) architecture, planning, build, and migration methodologies.
• Demonstrated financial acumen with experience managing multi-million dollar CAPEX and OPEX budgets.
• Understanding of Verizon Telecom, Verizon Business, Verizon Wireless, and Verizon Frontier Optical Transport Networks.
• Ten or more years of progressive engineering leadership within a Tier-1 telecommunications service provider.
• Familiarity with optical and IP transport hardware platforms (Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Nokia, Juniper).
• Demonstrated experience with core transport inventory, provisioning, and circuit management systems (such as TIRKS, ICON, Nautilus, FIM, COFFEE, TCOMS, CND, or equivalent OSS platforms).
• Track record of championing automation, generative AI tools, and data analytics to streamline engineering workflows and creating efficiencies.
• Experience navigating union/associate workforces and operating under collective bargaining agreements.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $127,500.00 - $245,000.00.The annual salary range for the New York location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $140,500.00 - $245,000.00.