Connectivity Engineer, Construction Project Manager

Position Title

Connectivity Engineer, Construction Project Manager

Location

Cedar Rapids, IA Onsite

Job Summary

Client is seeking a Connectivity Engineer to join the Design Engineering and Construction (DEC) team. This role is pivotal in supporting the physical infrastructure of Client's global data centers, ensuring seamless connectivity for the delivery of Client's 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.

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 Client 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.

Benefits

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward’s 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

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