Data Center Field Engineering Practice Lead

Computacenter; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Computacenter seeks a Field Engineering Practice Manager to lead our Data Center technical leadership organization across North America. You will manage Project Engineers and Implementation Specialists, ensuring capability, standards, capacity, quality, and readiness for complex deployments.

Travel 15–20% as needed. The role emphasizes building leadership depth, establishing consistent execution standards, and aligning resources to projects with customer requirements and technical risk.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in field engineering or data center delivery.
• 3+ years in people leadership.
• Strong experience with data center infrastructure deployment.
• Experience with site surveys, commissioning, migration, and closeout.
• Credentials such as BICSI, fiber, copper, OSHA.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable the Project Engineers and Implementation Specialists.
• Set clear expectations for technical leadership, execution quality, utilization, communication, and employee development.
• Maintain current view of PE/IS skills, readiness, location, and development needs.
• Create training, mentoring, succession and career plans to build leadership depth.
• Align qualified PEs/ISs to projects based on complexity, risk, geography and customer needs.
• Forecast capability and capacity gaps and recommend actions (hiring, contractor, cross-training).
• Establish repeatable field execution standards, methods, checkpoints and documentation.

Skills

People leadership

Data Center infra

Project leadership

Technical governance

Capacity planning

Stakeholder mgmt

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Computacenter seeks a Field Engineering Practice Manager to lead our Data Center technical leadership organization across North America. You will manage Project Engineers and Implementation Specialists, ensuring capability, standards, capacity, quality, and readiness for complex deployments.

Travel 15–20% as needed. The role emphasizes building leadership depth, establishing consistent execution standards, and aligning resources to projects with customer requirements and technical risk.