Data Center Telecom Project Lead

CloudHQ; Ashburn, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) with match

12 paid holidays

Generous PTO

Career development

Job summary

CloudHQ in Ashburn, Virginia, is seeking a Telecom Infrastructure Project Manager to plan and coordinate inside‑plant and outside‑plant telecom installations. You will align rollout schedules, vendors, permits, engineering, construction, and stakeholders to deliver compliant, documented, and operational projects.

You will manage design, permitting, procurement, construction, testing, turnover, and closeout while overseeing scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical infrastructure management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, telecommunications, project management, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering telecom, fiber‑optic, utility, data center, or critical‑infrastructure projects.
• Experience coordinating vendors, permits, construction activities, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of project controls, risk management, change management, and document control.
• Ability to interpret telecom drawings, route plans, schedules, scopes of work, and technical submittals.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and executive‑status reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering design, permitting, procurement, construction, testing, turnover, and closeout.
• Coordinate telecom carriers, fiber contractors, engineering consultants, utility providers, permitting authorities, site operations, security, safety, and other cross‑functional teams.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, and project documentation.
• Confirm readiness of route designs, construction drawings, bills of materials, method statements, permits, and access requirements before field execution.
• Lead regular project reviews, communicate status and decisions, escalated constraints, and track corrective actions through closure.
• Oversee vendor performance, validate progress, review deliverables, support invoice verification, and manage punch‑list completion.
• Coordinate outages, maintenance windows, access, logistics, and stakeholder notifications for work affecting live environments.
• Ensure complete turnover packages, including as‑built drawings, test results, splice records, permits, warranties, asset records, and acceptance documentation.
• Promote compliance with applicable safety, quality

Skills

Project management

Telecom infrastructure

Vendor coordination

Risk management

Change management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/related field

Tools

GIS

CAD

Fiber asset database

Project management software

Job description

CloudHQ in Ashburn, Virginia, is seeking a Telecom Infrastructure Project Manager to plan and coordinate inside‑plant and outside‑plant telecom installations. You will align rollout schedules, vendors, permits, engineering, construction, and stakeholders to deliver compliant, documented, and operational projects.

You will manage design, permitting, procurement, construction, testing, turnover, and closeout while overseeing scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies across