Onsite Data Center Rack Deployment Lead - Saline, MI

Insight Global; United States; On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking aRack Deployment Lead Data Center Engineer for onsite work in Saline, Michigan. This 6-month contract-to-hire role will own rack deployment execution across large-scale data center projects, coordinating with construction, facilities, engineering, and vendors to meet milestones.

Responsibilities include readiness, scheduling, installation, energization prep, issue resolution, and KPI reporting, with relocation assistance up to $8000 for out-of-state candidates and a pay

Qualifications

• 4+ years of rack deployment or related data center deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead rack deployment planning and execution from readiness through installation, validation, energization preparation, and turnover.
• Own building-level schedules, milestone tracking, action registers, blocker logs, risk escalation, and deployment status reporting.
• Validate rack deployment prerequisites, including space readiness, access, cabinet layouts, pathway readiness, materials, tooling, safety requirements, network readiness, and site support needs.
• Coordinate across construction, data center facilities operations, engineering, commissioning, network, compute, logistics, security, vendors, and field teams to remove blockers and maintain deployment velocity.
• Track KPIs such as schedule adherence, deployment velocity, installation quality, first-pass success, rework trends, blocker aging, access readiness, and handoff readiness.

Skills

Rack deployment

Data center deployment

Field installation

Infrastructure delivery

Construction coordination

Logistics execution

Power & cooling readiness

LOTO/LDL safety

Tools

Smartsheet

Primavera

MS Project

Jira

ServiceNow

CMMS

DCIM

Asset management systems

Inventory systems

Dashboarding tools

Job description

Insight Global is seeking aRack Deployment Lead Data Center Engineer for onsite work in Saline, Michigan. This 6-month contract-to-hire role will own rack deployment execution across large-scale data center projects, coordinating with construction, facilities, engineering, and vendors to meet milestones.

Responsibilities include readiness, scheduling, installation, energization prep, issue resolution, and KPI reporting, with relocation assistance up to $8000 for out-of-state candidates and a pay