Connectivity Enginner

About the role

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Connectivity Engineer for their data centers. This role will support the physical infrastructure of global data centers, ensuring seamless connectivity for the delivery of innovative services. The Connectivity Engineer will manage the full project lifecycle from initiation to production turnover, ensuring projects are on schedule, within budget, and meet quality standards. The position is on‑site in Center, ND; Cedar Rapids, IA; El Paso, TX; or Buffalo, NY, with 50% travel to Fort Worth, TX and Phoenix, AZ (which also entails 50% travel to Freestone, TX).

Responsibilities

• Site Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments of existing sites to identify areas for improvement.
• Modification Planning: Develop plans and proposals for modifications, including cost‑benefit analysis and risk assessment.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders, including site managers, vendors, and contractors, to ensure alignment and support for modifications.
• Implementation: Oversee the implementation of modifications, ensuring timely completion and minimal disruption to operations.
• Post‑Modification Review: Conduct reviews of modifications to assess effectiveness and identify areas for further improvement.
• Quality Assurance: Perform physical inspections to ensure vendor work meets DEC quality standards throughout the lifecycle of the data center. Validate physical installs, test reports, build accuracy, material and local code compliance including constructability reviews on multiple design phases.
• Technical Field Lead: Technical lead for industry and standards, responsible to lead product evaluation, design, and installation methods in the field including scope clarification, design and installation details as the owner of the Request for Information process.
• Vendor Field Management: Responsible for all connectivity activities (OSP/ISP) within construction, projects on site including tracking and reporting actual progress related to schedule expectations. Set and communicate clear expectations together with the immediate site team, build key relationships with our installation partners and drive a culture of best practice, safe working environment and execute to a vision of right first time.

Requirements

• US Citizen, GC Holder, or otherwise authorized to work in the United States.

Skills

• Strong mechanical and electrical QA knowledge
• Experience managing budgets $400M+
• 5+ years of experience in project management
• 5+ years of experience in data center telecommunications and networking
• Experience engaging and guiding stakeholders and providing solutions to construction‑related problems
• Proficiency in Google Docs, MS Office, and MS Project
• Experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Qualifications

• Experience in data center development or construction management
• Experience with Primavera 6 and managing IT or IP Network deployment projects
• Experience with fiber optic testing and outside plant cabling deployments

Pay

$70‑80 per hour, plus per diem eligibility and overtime.

Schedule

12‑month contract.