The Role To liaise with planning to ensure all materials are being accurately forecasted to maintain seamless operations and meet regularly with all strategic suppliers to ensure adequate capacity is in place to support forecasts. Work closely with buying team to ensure collated business plan capacity is covered for scaling purposes and work with the warehouse to ensure adequate space is available for scaled forecasts. Core Responsibilities Forecasting of all inbound material

We’re extremely proud to announce that Freedom Fibre has achieved National ‘Path to Collaboration’ (PTC) status with Openreach only a few months after achieving regional PTC status. Holding National PTC status means that Freedom Fibre demonstrates the diligence and high standards required working within the terms of the PIA contract, and are trusted to work on Openreach infrastructure across the UK. The Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) agreement enables Freedom Fibre to s

A thriving, purple flag town to be supported by lightning-fast broadband speeds – Freedom Fibre is coming to Stockton Heath and the surrounding villages of Grappenhall, Thelwall, Norcott Brook, Appleton Thorn, Stretton and Walton! Freedom Fibre’s vision is to make high-speed, reliable broadband available to and affordable for everyone. With other network providers generally focussing on connecting cities and large towns, Freedom Fibre aims to bring full-fibre broadband to sma

Easter was a great opportunity to act on one of the core values we follow as a company – ‘Care more’ – and we’re pleased to say that Freedom Fibre’s first annual Easter charity raffle raised a fantastic £209 through generous donations from our staff. Freedom Fibre is dedicated to supporting its employees’ wellbeing, and with many of our people recently becoming certified Mental Health First Aiders, we decided to donate the money to the Jamie Horrocks Trust, a local charity b

To Freedom Fibre, making smart investments also means investing in great people. Providing opportunities for young people is so important in bringing fresh thinking, energy and enthusiasm together with the values that drive our business and build a legacy to be proud of. On Friday 1st April Freedom Fibre took part in ICA’s first Careers Fair with other local employers and colleges, providing information and advice to Years 9, 10 and 11 regarding future employment and career p

The Role The Head of B2B will be responsible for supporting the Senior Leadership Team in leading commercial and operational matters with TalkTalk and other ISPs, along with forming a capable team to enable Freedom Fibre to grow this important revenue stream and offering. Core Responsibilities: Commercial lead for B2B product offering. Establish a B2B function/team. B2B Customer Account Management. Support development and implementation of the Freedom Fibre B2B strategy. B2B

The Role Competitive sourcing of all assigned materials/categories and the management of the associated supplier relationships and supply chain, to deliver the optimal quality, service, technology, and value to Freedom Fibre Limited. Seeking out new sources of supply to maintain the company’s competitive edge and ensure secure future capacity planning. Responsibilities include: Complete supply market studies to gain a clear understanding of all appropriate sourcing pipelines

The Role To manage a team of Assurance Engineers and to oversee and support pre-build, in-flight and build activities and to ensure that the designs reflect the ‘As Built’ status when the build is complete. You will champion network quality and compliance to ensure that our partners are carrying out operations to specification and adhering to the programme. This role will report into the Head of Build & Assurance and will support with the daily management of the Build functio

The Freedom Fibre management team spent time out to challenge each other on how we continue to scale and grow successfully, create value for all of our stakeholders and ensure alignment across our business. Growing from 6 to 76 employees within 12 months brings increasing importance on good, open and constructive communication. As Darren Woods, CFO, explains, “We always strive to improve; to challenge how things are done; to fail fast and learn quickly; to ensure the best pos

Members from the government’s department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) team visited the Freedom Fibre build teams out in Whitchurch, Shropshire to see them in action this week. The DCMS Gigabit Voucher scheme is well underway and with the help of their funding, Freedom Fibre has been able to provide full-fibre broadband to over 10,000 rural properties in the last 12 months, mainly in the North West of the UK. We announced our plans in December to roll out the Free

The Role The Dev Ops Engineer will provide infrastructure support for the development teams building the BSS/OSS for Freedom Fibre’s wholesale fibre platform. Responsibilities Operate the infrastructure for OSS/BSS on public or private clouds to support the development teams with their applications goals. Create Infrastructure as Code patterns to both speed and smooth software deployment. Design appropriate infrastructure, within the development team’s requirements, to provid

The Role The main purpose of the role is to prepare, execute and document tests of software-based delivery items. This may require the development of related automatic test suites. Following the completion of the test and acceptance process, there will be a need to oversee some aspects of the release process in particular, early life defect remediation, future requests and ad-hoc support for user queries. Responsibilities Working with IT Development teams (internal or exter

Freedom Fibre is proud to be connecting its first customers onto its new full-fibre network in Leigh. Freedom Fibre’s announced its plans in mid-December 2021 to extend its new ultrafast network in Leigh, a large town in the Borough of Wigan. This new gigabit-capable technology is now already available in some areas and the remainder of the build in the area is progressing fast. One of the first customers to go live was Mr Kelly, he told us, “I've been a loyal, satisfied cust

Thank you to the Parish Council in Weaverham for arranging a great location for our team to support local residents to get connected on the Freedom Fibre ultrafast broadband network. We were also pleased to be visited by members of the Parish Council, Peter Wilkinson and Mike Dugine, the digital Sector specialist from Cheshire West and Chester Council. We had lots of residents coming to speak to us about the service, in particular, we’d like to thank one lovely resident for h

The Diabetes Youth Service at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospital was set up to work with young people cared for by the Paediatric Diabetes Team. It supports children and young people who are living with a long-term diagnosis of diabetes, service empowering them to manage their own healthcare more independently. Recognise young people for who they are and not by their illness or condition Build positive relationships with young people Support and encourage young people wi

Our friendly team will be heading to Weaverham on Monday 7th February in the Freedom Fibre camper van. They’ll be setting up at the MUGA car park from 9am to 2.30pm and ready to chat to residents who just want to learn a bit more about the benefits of full-fibre broadband and there to help those that want to get connected to our new ultra-fast broadband network in Weaverham. If you’re a local resident, we’d love to see you. If you can’t make it, but you’re interested in boost

We are extremely proud to have achieved ‘Path to Collaboration’ (PTC) status with Openreach in such a short period of time. This is a testament to the hard work and focus from all of our teams. Our relationship and collaboration with Openreach is very important to us; receiving this status already is a huge milestone. PTC status with Openreach demonstrates that Freedom Fibre are a ‘trusted and high-performing’ company to work on the Openreach network. Tony Moore, Chief Develo

Over the Christmas period, Freedom Fibre raised money to support Cash for Kids Mission Christmas with Hits Radio. We set a target of £2000 and raised £2120.05. We hoped to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people at Christmas. Freedom Fibre donated £10 to Cash for Kids for every customer that was connected to our network between 22nd November and the 24th December and we were proud to see our staff and suppliers also contributing towards the target as

Freedom Fibre is proud to have been featured in Local Mag which is distributed free to over 9,000 homes in the communities of Irlam, Cadishead and Rixton-with-Glazebrook. This well-loved community magazine covers Freedom Fibre this January as we announce the expansion our network into Irlam, Cadishead and the surrounding areas. Residents interested in getting their home broadband speeds ultra-boosted can pre-register their interest here and they will receive more information

Freedom Fibre announces its expansion into Shropshire with plans to rollout its full-fibre gigabit-capable network to Whitchurch, Wem and Prees. Freedom Fibre’s North West based full-fibre network is to be expanded into Shropshire in the Spring of 2022. Construction of the £5 million network has commenced, which extensively uses the existing BT Openreach infrastructure of underground ducts and existing telegraph poles wherever possible to minimise disruption to residents as w