Permit Coordinator
Pittsburgh, PA
Contract
This role is ideal for someone who thrives on ownership and coordination. The #1 feature of this opportunity is end-to-end responsibility for the permitting lifecycle, acting as the primary liaison between construction teams and permitting authorities. The team is looking for a highly organized communicator who enjoys balancing field presence with administrative oversight, offering exposure to permitting strategy, jurisdictional relationships, and long-term extension potential.
Contract Duration: 6 Months (Likely Extension)
Required Skills & Experience
- Permit tracking and coordination experience
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Customer service and stakeholder coordination experience
- Construction permitting experience
- Exposure to CATV, fiber, or utilities projects
- Experience working with local jurisdictions
- Proficiency with Excel
- Experience with permit tracking or job documentation systems
- Submitting permit packages via online systems, fax, or in person
- Tracking permits through jurisdictional review and approval
- Communicating with permitting authorities regarding requirements and changes
- Maintaining jurisdiction-specific permitting requirements
- Managing permit documentation within JT or Polaris (job docs)
- Handling financial tracking and reporting related to permitting
- Acting as the liaison between Company and permitting authorities
- Tracking aerial inspection and restoration completion
- Supporting scheduling functions as needed
- Coordinating traffic control requirements and related follow-ups
- 50% Permitting Systems, Excel, and Job Documentation Tools
- 50% Reporting and Coordination
- 70% Hands On
- 30% Team Collaboration
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability.
As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan.
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What you didn’t know about us:
- Competitive salary
- Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Short/Long Term Disability and Critical Care/Illness Protection
- Life Insurance and Retirement Plans
- Employee Assistance Program
- With this position, you will get the opportunity to work with our game changing clients and further advance your already valuable experience in the telecom industry!
We are Connectors. We thrive on ‘quality over quantity’ and put in the work building strong relationships. We create connections, discover qualities, uncover skills, and place people with accuracy. We are your true partner!
We are Collaborators. You’ll be working with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kelly and part of the Kelly Telecom division. It allows us to be as nimble and fiercely competitive as a startup while having the backing of a multibillion dollar publicly traded company which has been in business for 75 years. With direct access to hiring managers, services don’t stop at standard recruiting processes. We use our expertise to improve your application skills and provide ongoing career support.
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Kelly Telecom is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information click Equal Employment Opportunity is the law.
You should know: Your safety matters! Vaccination against COVID-19 may be a requirement for this job in compliance with current client and governmental policies. A recruiter will confirm and share more details with you during the interview process.