Telecom Facilities Build PM: Colocation & Network Infra

LightPath; Plain City (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightpath is seeking a Facilities Construction Project Manager to lead the engineering, construction and ongoing maintenance of long haul colocation facilities. The role involves coordinating land procurement/licensing, design, and vendor management for 1600 to 8000 sq ft facilities across the country.

You will build and lead a team of engineers and PMs, interface with customers and vendors, and ensure safety, compliance and reliability of critical infrastructure. Location: Plain City, OH.

Qualifications

• 3 to 10+ years' work experience in telecommunication collocation facility engineering, construction and operations.
• Experience designing and building telecommunications facilities.
• Mechanical, electrical design and construction experience is necessary.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Familiar with collocation inventory systems, BMS systems, biometric access, video surveillance systems, electrical and cooling infrastructure systems, OSP networks, cross connect understanding.
• Highly organized and communicative with colleagues and leaders.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage time effectively.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of all facility engineering, construction, and infrastructure buildout, including setting up maintenance contracts with vendors to perform quarterly, semiannual, and annual maintenance on the critical infrastructure once complete.
• Work with Architectural/Engineering firms to design such facilities across the country.
• Work with construction firms to solicit proposals for the construction of such facilities and make awards to build these sites and meet schedules.
• Attend any municipality, county, city zoning meetings with consultants to present and gain any approval required.
• Build a team of engineers and project managers to cover the day-to-day work throughout the country.
• Plan and maintain preventative schedules.
• Emergency response procedures in case of power outages/failure
• Maintain compliance and safety, environmental and regulatory standards that would apply.
• Manage facility infrastructure upgrades, projects within a facility from a construction vendor prospective.
• Oversee all aspects of external colocation spaces from a quarterly review with colocation vendors to understand uptime performance, maintenance records for critical infrastructure, Lightpath fiber capacity.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on maintaining and upgrading systems.
• Provide planning and leadership for all collocation network growth and augmentation activities within an Lightpath facility as well as external vendor facilities.
• Continually innovate to improve facility, network cost, efficiency, resiliency, and reliability
• Provide support to install and activation teams on fiber connectivity related questions, design, and architecture.
• Help support customer installs with an LP collocation facility.
• Act as escalation point for anything collocation related.
• Interface with customers or potential customers, as needed.
• Interface with vendors and suppliers, as needed.
• Be available for after-hours, nights, weekends, holidays in case of a facility outage or issue.

Skills

Telecom experience

Documentation skills

Communication skills

Multitasking

Tools

BMS systems

OSP networks

Job description

Lightpath is seeking a Facilities Construction Project Manager to lead the engineering, construction and ongoing maintenance of long haul colocation facilities. The role involves coordinating land procurement/licensing, design, and vendor management for 1600 to 8000 sq ft facilities across the country.

You will build and lead a team of engineers and PMs, interface with customers and vendors, and ensure safety, compliance and reliability of critical infrastructure. Location: Plain City, OH.