Connectivity Engineering Project Manager

Title: Connectivity Engineering Project Manager

Location: Onsite in TX, AZ, VA, MS, AR, UT (several openings in all these states)

Duration: 12+ Month Contract

Compensation: $70 - 80.00/hr.

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.


This role is pivotal in supporting the physical infrastructure of the global data centers, ensuring seamless connectivity for the delivery of the innovative services. The Connectivity Engineer will manage the full project lifecycle, from initiation to production turnover, ensuring projects are executed on schedule, within budget, and meet quality standards.


Key Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Control: Develop and maintain project scope, schedules, and milestones. Collaborate with site project management teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Learnings & Best Practices: Review ongoing projects for efficiencies and document data points to assist with field coordination. Support the development of project management best practices and coordinate SOPs/SIPs with vendors.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Assist the project controls team with forecasting and budget efforts. Ensure clear communication of project status with all stakeholders.
• Technical Reviews & Vendor Management: Establish milestones for equipment purchase and track progress. Manage vendor field activities and ensure compliance with DEC quality standards.
• Quality Assurance & Technical Leadership: Perform inspections to ensure vendor work meets quality standards. Lead product evaluation, design, and installation methods in the field.
• Cross-functional Coordination: Liaise with construction partners and coordinate with logistics partners to ensure smooth material flow. Communicate progress and risks to key stakeholders.
• Safety & Compliance: Ensure adherence to safety obligations and lead a 'safety first' culture.
• Travel: Position requires a minimum of 50% travel.

Sites 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 Meta 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.'

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred 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.

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.


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