Role not as advertised, not for true Project Management Professionals - Network Implementation Program Manager Lumen Employee Review

Working as a project/ program manager is a misnomer. As an experienced project manager in waterfall/ agile/ and hybrid methodologies, with PMP certification, scope of job was more accurately described as Construction coordinator/ project auditor. Span of control was limited to handing off of externally contracted engineering projects to externally contracted construction companies, and auditing posted expenditures within scope of project. noteworthy to state that my time here was during a transition, with inexperienced and poor leadership that was focused primarily on cutting costs -which in many instances resulted in tension, high turnover, and strained and damaged relationships with adjacent utilities, third party contractors, and other members of the corporate team. Pay (salary) well below industry standard for a PMP. I was the only PMP in my group of peers. most were pulled from other areas of expertise throughout the company (internet service sales, internet service technicians).