Technical Program Manager, Global Marine Maintenance

Job description / Role

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in fiber optic network design, deployment, and operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with the marine industry, in a marine repair coordination, ship operations management role within a marine environment.
• Understanding of marine maintenance and operations of submarine cables, as well as operation and maintenance of cable stations.
• Excellent organizational, multitasking and prioritization abilities with attention to detail.

About the Job:

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you'll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You'll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Support Regional Preventive Maintenance planning for APAC and Indian Ocean region. Cable repair coordination, repair quality and repair lead.
• Review of new marine-related cable systems handover from build to operate teams, ensuring data quality, pre-go live checks, maintenance solutions are in place. Proactive identification and repair of potential risks and issues, develop working practices and procedures with internal and external teams.
• Respond to cable faults and damage, working with repair authorities, ship operators, maintenance authorities, and outside related agencies and organizations.
• Monitor cable health, security and environmental factors. Efficient repair and restoration of services working closely with the Network Operations Center (NOC) and field operations teams at cable landing sites, ship to ship communications.
• Support management and performance management of suppliers, Regional Operational Expenditure (OPEX) planning, forecasting and ongoing financial OPEX management.

About the Company

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.