Fiber Optics Associate Manager

The Fiber Optics Associate Manager on Universal United Kingdom Resort (UUKR) – Parkwide Systems is responsible for supporting and coordinating the design, delivery, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover of campus-wide fiber-optic and structured cabling infrastructure across Universal Creative projects. Based in Bedford, this role helps deliver the physical communications backbone serving attractions, ride/show systems, audio-visual and lighting systems, security and building systems, wired and wireless networks, data centers, back-of-house facilities, and non-attraction front-of-house facilities. The role combines fiber infrastructure expertise, project delivery, field quality oversight, and vendor and stakeholder coordination. It acts as a bridge among Parkwide Systems, IT and network teams, engineering, technical services, facilities, security, operations, consultants, contractors, and construction partners to provide resilient, scalable, maintainable, and standards-compliant connectivity. - Manage and support the end-to-end delivery of parkwide fiber-optic and structured cabling infrastructure, from concept and design development through procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, acceptance, and handover. - Support scope definition, schedules, budgets, risk management, change control, and project reporting for fiber backbone, horizontal cabling, equipment-room, pathway, and distribution workstreams. - Coordinate fiber routes, pathways, telecom rooms, data-center interfaces, entrance facilities, demarcation points, rack layouts, cross-connects, and system connection requirements with architectural, civil, structural, MEP, network, and system disciplines. - Track design and construction progress against daily goals and major milestones; maintain fiber installation and integration schedules; identify constraints, delays, and deviations early; and promptly communicate completions, emergencies, or variations from the project schedule. - Participate in site walks, design reviews, construction coordination meetings, readiness reviews, and turnover planning. - Coordinate contractors and engineers to keep installation work on schedule and quality high; manage multiple vendors and contractors, motivate performance, and drive field issues through timely - Serve as a fiber and physical-layer infrastructure subject-matter resource for parkwide systems and connected technology disciplines. - Ensure designs provide appropriate route diversity, redundancy, security, growth capacity, reliability, maintainability, and sustainability for current and future operational needs. - Oversee and inspect vendor and contractor work for compliance with approved designs, specifications, installation standards, manufacturer requirements, and project quality expectations. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field. - Experience managing medium- to large-scale facility or campus infrastructure design and build-outs, preferably within attractions, theme parks, transport hubs, hospitality, large public venues. - Ability to produce and maintain accurate as-built drawings, test-result documentation, and Excel-based trackers for individual fibers, strands, ports, and assignments; proficiency with Microsoft Office, Visio, Bluebeam, AutoCAD, or equivalent tools.