IT/Telecom Network Subject Matter Expert

About the role

FusionIRX is seeking a highly accomplished IT/Telecom Network Subject Matter Expert to support the Commissioning Team on a large-scale, high-tech memory manufacturing facility in Boise, Idaho.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
• Serve as the Commissioning Team's principal technical authority for IT, telecommunications, structured cabling, and network infrastructure
• Provide expert guidance throughout construction, installation, testing, commissioning, turnover, and operational-readiness activities
• Evaluate system designs and installation approaches for functionality, constructability, maintainability, reliability, scalability, and compliance with owner requirements
• Identify technical risks, design gaps, coordination conflicts, and installation deficiencies before they affect commissioning, startup, or turnover
• Support project leadership with technical evaluations, decision-making, issue escalation, and risk mitigation
• Systems and Infrastructure
• Provide commissioning oversight and subject-matter expertise for systems that may include:
• Enterprise network infrastructure
• Core, distribution, and access-layer networks
• Local-area and wide-area network connectivity
• Fiber-optic and copper structured cabling
• Telecommunications rooms, main distribution frames, intermediate distribution frames, and equipment rooms
• Routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, controllers, and related network appliances
• Wi-Fi and wireless network infrastructure
• Voice and unified communications systems
• Data-center and server-room connectivity
• Operational technology and industrial network interfaces
• Building management system network connectivity
• Security, access-control, video-surveillance, and life-safety network interfaces
• Network monitoring, management, and alarming systems
• Power, grounding, bonding, environmental, and redundancy requirements supporting network equipment
• Carrier services, demarcation points, and external telecommunications connections
• Commissioning Planning and Execution
• Develop, review, and support implementation of IT/telecom commissioning plans, procedures, checklists, test scripts, and acceptance criteria
• Confirm commissioning requirements are aligned with owner project requirements, basis-of-design documents, specifications, applicable standards, and approved submittals
• Participate in commissioning planning meetings, design reviews, constructability reviews, installation-readiness reviews, and system turnover discussions
• Establish commissioning priorities based on construction sequencing, energization, system availability, and operational-readiness milestones
• Carefully coordinate commissioning activities with construction management, quality assurance, electrical, controls, security, life safety, facilities, manufacturing, and operations teams
• Review system boundaries, interface requirements, testing prerequisites, and turnover responsibilities
• Verify that commissioning activities are appropriately sequenced and integrated with the overall project schedule
• Support development and maintenance of commissioning schedules, system trackers, completion matrices, and status reports
• Installation Verification and Quality Oversight
• Perform field inspections and system walkdowns to verify installation quality and compliance
• Confirm equipment, cabling, labeling, routing, terminations, grounding, bonding, clearances, access, and environmental requirements meet project standards
• Verify network rooms and telecommunications spaces are complete, secure, clean, conditioned, powered, grounded, and ready for equipment installation or startup
• Review installation records, inspection reports, cable-test reports, equipment certifications, and quality documentation
• Identify deficiencies, incomplete work, deviations, and nonconforming installations
• Generate or support punch-list items and track issues through corrective action and closure
• Coordinate with quality personnel, trade contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders to resolve field issues
• Verify corrective work has been completed and properly documented before acceptance
• Testing and Functional Verification
• Witness and evaluate vendor, contractor, and integrator testing activities
• Review fiber-optic test results, including optical time-domain reflectometer and power-meter testing where applicable
• Review copper-cabling certification results and verify compliance with project performance requirements
• Confirm network equipment configuration, connectivity, redundancy, failover, monitoring, and alarm functions are tested
• Support end-to-end verification of network pathways, devices, interfaces, and connected systems
• Verify network redundancy, resilient architecture, backup power, recovery, and fault-response functions where required
• Evaluate testing results and determine whether systems meet functional and performance expectations
• Coordinate troubleshooting of failed tests, communication errors, configuration issues, interface problems, and intermittent system behavior
• Confirm deficiencies are retested and successfully closed
• Maintain clear records of witnessed tests, findings, corrective actions, and final acceptance status
• Integration and Interface Coordination
• Coordinate IT/telecom interfaces with electrical power, controls, building automation, process systems, security, fire alarm, life safety, and facility-management systems
• Verify network dependencies and integration requirements are understood by all responsible parties
• Support coordination between enterprise IT and operational technology stakeholders
• Review interface-control documents, addressing requirements, communication protocols, port assignments, and connectivity responsibilities
• Identify scope gaps or conflicting responsibilities between contractors, vendors, integrators, and owner teams
• Help resolve system-integration issues that could affect startup, commissioning, security, reliability, or production readiness
• Confirm integrated systems operate as intended under normal, abnormal, and failure conditions
• Cybersecurity and Network Readiness
• Coordinate with the owner's IT and cybersecurity teams to support compliance with project-specific security requirements
• Verify that network equipment, configurations, access controls, and documentation align with approved standards and procedures
• Support validation of network segmentation, device access, secure remote connectivity, and system-hardening requirements
• Confirm default credentials, unauthorized connections, temporary devices, and unsecured access points are addressed before turnover
• Aid in identifying cybersecurity-related commissioning risks and escalating concerns to the appropriate owner representatives
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality when handling network designs, configurations, security requirements, and facility information
• Documentation, Turnover, and Closeout
• Review commissioning records, test reports, deficiency logs, inspection reports, redline drawings, and final documentation
• Verify that network diagrams, cable schedules, rack elevations, equipment inventories, addressing records, configuration records, and test results are complete and accurate
• Support development and review of system turnover packages
• Confirm required operations and maintenance manuals, warranties, spare-parts lists, training records, and vendor documentation are submitted
• Participate in turnover-readiness reviews and recommend system acceptance or identify remaining conditions
• Support the transition of completed systems to owner IT, facilities, operations, and maintenance teams
• Assist with training coordination and knowledge transfer for owner personnel
• Provide final commissioning observations, lessons learned, and recommendations for future phases
• Work Environment
• This position is based full-time at an active construction project in Boise, Idaho.
• The contractor will work in office, construction, telecommunications, equipment-room, and manufacturing-facility environments.
• The role may require: Extended periods working at a computer
• Frequent attendance at project and coordination meetings
• Walking active construction areas
• Climbing stairs and navigating uneven surfaces
• Wearing required personal protective equipment
• Working around construction noise, dust, changing temperatures, and active equipment
• Supporting testing, startup, or commissioning activities outside normal business hours when required by the project schedule
• Requirements
• Required Qualifications
• Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in IT, telecommunications, network infrastructure, structured cabling, or related technical systems
• Extensive experience with complex construction, installation, testing, startup, commissioning, or system-turnover activities
• Demonstrated subject-matter expertise in enterprise network and telecommunications infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of network architecture, structured cabling, fiber optics, copper systems, telecommunications spaces, network equipment, grounding, redundancy, and system integration
• Proven ability to review technical drawings, specifications, submittals, test procedures, and commissioning documentation
• Experience witnessing, evaluating, and documenting system testing
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, system completion, turnover, and operational-readiness processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with executives, engineers, contractors, technicians, vendors, commissioning personnel, and owner representatives
• Strong organizational, documentation, and issue-management skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, schedule-driven project environment
• Willingness and ability to work full-time on-site in Boise, Idaho
• Preferred Qualifications
• Fifteen or more years of relevant IT/telecom or network-infrastructure experience
• Direct commissioning experience on semiconductor fabrication or advanced memory-manufacturing projects
• Experience with large-scale cleanroom, process-support, central-utility, or mission-critical environments
• Experience supporting phased turnover, startup, and production-readiness activities
• Knowledge of applicable standards and best practices, including BICSI, TIA, ANSI, IEEE, NFPA, NEC, and owner-specific network standards
• Experience with Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bluebeam, SharePoint, CxAlloy, or similar construction and commissioning