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Wireline Midwest Sr Operations Manager

MasTec Communications Group

OMAHA, NEJob$145–175K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$145–175K/yr
Location
OMAHA, NE
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Driver's License

Job overview

MasTec Communications Group seeks a senior operations manager to oversee wireline construction operations across a Midwest territory spanning approximately 1,500 miles. The role manages field crews and resources, customer and vendor relationships, project execution, and regional financial performance. It requires at least seven years of related leadership experience in telecommunications or construction, expertise in long-haul fiber, and residence within the specified territory. Travel is 50 percent, with quarterly in-person customer meetings.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Long-Haul FiberLeadershipProgram ManagementOrganizationProblem SolvingWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationGoal SettingFirst AidSafetyRescueWiltronAnritsuFiberPIMCPRConnector AttachmentComputer SkillsReading Site PlansReading RFDSReading Construction DrawingsReading SOWSafety ProceduresPhysical Fitness

Qualifications

7+ Years Related Leadership ExperienceValid Driver's License

Benefits

401(k) Match
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Overview

MasTec Communications Group is a leading national infrastructure construction company operating throughout the United States. MasTec Communications Group performs wireline communication services on a national scale. We are experts in underground construction, roadband fiber optic cable installation, OSP engineering, wireline construction, and emergency maintenance service

At MasTec you’ll be joining a family, where we are dedicated to supporting each other and building an atmosphere of teamwork. As part of our team, your opportunities are limitless.

50 percent travel for the in the Midwest! Travel for in person customer meetings quarterly.

Chicago to Omaha, Omaha to Denver, Columbus to Indianapolis

  • Territory includes long-haul fiber routes spanning approximately 1,500 miles

  • Must be a subject matter expert in long haul fiber to the home!

  • Must live within these territories.

  • Upper Midwest candidate preferred.

  • Responsible for construction operations, customer relations, project Exicution, and financial perfromance within the assigned region.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Operations Manager is responsible for the safety, quality, scheduling, and overall management of field crews, vehicles, tools, equipment, and related subcontractor/vendor resources within a Market.

In addition, you will:

  • Supports the attainment of the Markets Program Management Plans: safety, quality, financials, production, schedule, inventory, resource, and customer satisfaction objectives

  • Responsible for field crews, vehicles, tools, equipment, and related subcontractor/vendor resources

  • Ensures field internal/external crews are trained, outfitted, and available

  • Manages and reports costs in order to provide accurate financial data

  • Manages and coordinates professional, technical, and non-technical staff by establishing performance measures, goals, objectives, and priorities, providing direction and feedback, and ensuring assigned projects/tasks are completed accurately and by the specified due date

  • Prepares regular internal/external progress, project status, and problem resolution reports

  • Manages relationships with vendors and contractors that are supporting field construction activities

  • Management of vehicles, tools, and equipment

  • Evaluates overall and individual work performance of crew staff to determine effectiveness in providing quality products within time and cost restraints

  • Monitors time and dollar expenditures to meet established targets

  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

About You:

  • Minimum of 7+ years of related leadership experience within the telecommunications/construction industry

  • Strong leadership and program management skills

  • Excellent organizational, problem-solving, written, and verbal skills

  • Management, establishment, and communication of clear goals and objectives

  • Have job-related certifications like First Aid, Safety, Rescue, Wiltron, Anritsu, Fiber, PIM, CPR, and Connector attachment

  • Organizational, computer, and communication skills

  • Must be able to read and interpret site plans, RFDS, construction drawings, and SOW

  • Must possess a valid driver's license and comply with the company's motor vehicle policy

  • Recognize and provide a safe work site with acceptable quality and efficiency

  • Ability to lead, teach, and train proper work and safety procedures

  • Must be fit and in good physical condition

Hard work pays off. See what you’ll get for your effort:

Compensation: $145,000-$175,000 Depending on experience

Financial Security

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

  • Life insurance

  • Short-term and Long-term disability

Health and Wellness

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • Dependent care and medical flexible spending accounts

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work/Life Balance

  • Paid time off

  • Paid holidays

  • Family and medical leave

  • Paid sick time

We meet your commitment with competitive pay and benefits. If this sounds like you, let’s talk. Build your career with MasTec!

MasTec, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasTec's policy to comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

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How this job compares

Set against the 8,221 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$145–175K/yr
  • US median$85–120K/yr4,715 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $160K, is 56% above the US median midpoint ($103K) — in the top quarter of Operations Manager salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 46 open Operations Manager jobs in Nebraska and 8,221 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Nebraska
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 6,272 postings).
Education
1,886 of the 8,221 open Operations Manager jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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