Data Center Project Engineer - Sabey Data Centers
$110,589–$165,884 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Manage project scopes, budgets, and schedules from concept through closeout while coordinating contractors, vendors, and design partners. Review drawings, specifications, and operational requirements to mitigate constructability and outage risks. Support hands-on operation of a 24/7 critical facility by monitoring equipment health, diagnosing abnormal conditions, and leading preventive maintenance activities. Develop standard operating procedures, disaster recovery plans, and incident documentation to ensure safety and compliance. Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to verify work quality and minimize downtime.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Management, Project Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated experience maintaining, troubleshooting, deploying, coordinating, or supporting building infrastructure in a critical facility
- Mission-critical or data center experience
- Working understanding of data center operations, redundancy, uptime expectations, preventive maintenance, incident response, project plans and specifications, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, estimates, contractor coordination, and construction execution
- Ability to quickly learn site-specific electrical, mechanical, controls, environmental, monitoring, security, and operational systems through manuals, drawings, procedures, documentation, and field training
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and related collaboration tools
- Ability to learn construction management, scheduling, maintenance, monitoring, ticketing, documentation, and AI-enabled productivity tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively during operational events, maintenance activities, projects, customer interactions, and vendor or contractor coordination
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, critical thinking, time management, prioritization, organizational, and documentation skills
- Self-directed, accountable approach with the ability to prioritize competing work in a fast-paced environment without compromising safety, uptime, quality, compliance, or customer impact
- Ability to maneuver and lift up to 50 pounds
- Ability to operate hand and power tools
- Willingness to support flexible hours, shifts, overtime, weekends, and on-call assignments
- Willingness to complete a background check
- Willingness to pass a pre-employment drug screening
Desired Qualifications
- Mission-critical or data center experience
- Technical certifications, trade school, military technical experience, college coursework, or training related to data center operations, electrical, mechanical, controls, construction, project management, or critical facilities
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