Project Manager

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Services Project Manager plays a critical role in delivering medium-to-large telecommunications deployment projects that enable customer network success. This position drives project execution, governance, financial performance, and customer satisfaction across the project lifecycle. The role contributes to high-quality service delivery while aligning project outcomes to customer and business objectives.

How you will make an impact:

• Deliver telecommunications services projects from inception through closure using established project management methodologies and contractual requirements.

• Lead project handover activities, validate scope of work against sales orders, and develop detailed project schedules and work packages.

• Identify project risks, develop mitigation plans, and conduct complexity reviews with key stakeholders.

• Manage project scope, schedules, hardware delivery tracking, resource planning, and change order processes.

• Drive customer communications, status reporting, governance reviews, escalations, and stakeholder alignment.

• Coordinate engineering, installation, testing, and Ready for Service activities to achieve quality and deployment objectives.

• Achieve project financial targets, revenue forecasts, acceptance milestones, and project completion requirements.
• Prepare and update project documents including schedule, risk register and governance as per project management methodologies.
• Maintain organisational tools as required for compliance and monitoring

The must haves:

• Education: Technical degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience: 10+ years of telecommunications industry operational experience and/or project implementation experience.

• Experience: 8+ years in a lead role within Professional Services and/or participation in medium-to-large-scale projects.

• Certifications: PMP certification preferred and required within one year of hire.

• Utilization of Microsoft Office applications including Project,Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with subsea deployment projects.

• Business and financial management experience related to project-level P&L management.

• Experience working within a matrix management environment and influencing without direct reporting relationships.

• Experience negotiating with customers, internal resource owners, and external suppliers.

• Ability to manage multiple account activities and project priorities simultaneously.

• Background in fiber optic or high-speed data communications technologies.

• Professional certification such as PMP or PRINCE2

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Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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