Vice President, Field Services

Vice President, Field Services Location: Greater St. Louis, MO (O Fallon, MO 63368) Start Date: Immediate Responsibilities Define and execute the field services strategy for Gateway’s fiber-to-the-home operations, ensuring the organization can scale efficiently across new and existing markets. Lead all field service functions, including customer installations, service calls, trouble resolution, repair activity, quality assurance, and field safety. Establish performance standards and operating rhythms that improve first-time-right execution, reduce repeat visits, strengthen SLA performance, and elevate the customer experience. Build and lead a high-performing, multi-market field organization across internal teams, frontline leaders, and external partners. Partner closely with construction, network operations, engineering, customer care, and business leaders to align field execution with network readiness, service quality, and growth priorities. Drive workforce planning, scheduling, technician capacity, and partner management to ensure the right resources are in place to support market launches and ongoing service demand. Use KPIs and field performance data to improve productivity, routing efficiency, mean time to repair, first-time fix rates, and overall cost-to-serve. Standardize field processes, tools, and reporting across markets to improve consistency, visibility, and scalability as Gateway expands. Champion a safety-first, customer-focused culture that reinforces accountability, quality workmanship, and strong service standards. Evaluate and enhance field service systems, workforce management tools, and reporting capabilities to support data-driven decisions and operational control. Develop leadership capability and bench strength across the organization through hiring, coaching, succession planning, and performance management. Benefits Seeing your work make a positive difference in the lives of our served communities. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, paid time-off, flexible environment). Locally owned, friendly, innovative company with high growth projections. Career development. Opportunity to learn skills and participate in critical projects in all areas of the business. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, telecommunications, operations, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred. Proven executive leadership experience in field services, field operations, or service delivery within telecommunications, broadband, fiber, or a similarly complex distributed service environment. Strong experience leading customer installation, service, and repair operations in a field-to-the-home, broadband, or last-mile delivery model. Demonstrated success building and scaling geographically dispersed teams in high-growth, multi-market environments. Deep understanding of telecom field operations, technician workforce planning, service quality, safety compliance, and customer experience performance. Track record of using operational KPIs such as first-time fix rate, repeat visit rate, mean time to repair, SLA attainment, and technician productivity to drive results. Experience working cross-functionally with network operations, construction, engineering, customer care, and vendor partners to improve service delivery. Strong executive communication, coaching, and change leadership skills, with the ability to align teams around performance expectations and operational priorities. Experience improving operating processes, field tools, reporting, and governance in support of scale, quality, and cost efficiency. Proficiency with Microsoft Office and field service, workforce management, dispatch, and reporting systems. Ability to travel across markets and field locations as needed. #J-18808-Ljbffr Gateway Fiber