Who You AreYou are an experiencedData Center Field Superintendent with hands-on leadership experience in data center infrastructure, network deployment, structured cabling, remediation, commissioning support, and critical-facility field operations.
You are a field-first leader who can turn project scope into safe, productive daily work. You know how to align crews, sequence tasks, remove blockers, protect quality, and communicate field reality clearly to project leadership and customers.
You bring strong technical knowledge across rack-and-stack, fiber, copper, cable management, labeling, grounding, bonding, MEP coordination, data hall standards, safety practices, and closeout requirements. You are organized, accountable, safety-minded, and comfortable leading technicians, subcontractors, vendors, and multi-shift field teams in fast-paced environments.
About The RoleThe
Data Center Field Superintendent leads daily field execution for data center infrastructure, AI compute, network deployment, remediation, commissioning-support, and technical installation projects throughout the United States.
This role owns daily site execution, including personnel, productivity, quality, safety, schedule adherence, jobsite readiness, client coordination, and field documentation. The Superintendent is responsible for keeping crews aligned, identifying blockers early, escalating risks, and ensuring work is customer ready.
Other responsibilities include:- Lead daily field operations for data center construction, deployment, remediation, and service projects.
- Own the daily field plan, workface readiness, manpower alignment, task sequencing, and production goals.
- Manage technicians, lead technicians, subcontractors, vendors, and assigned field crews.
- Conduct daily planning meetings, safety briefings, work assignments, toolbox talks, and production reviews.
- Coordinate manpower, tools, materials, equipment, access, lifts, site readiness, and workspace readiness.
- Review scopes of work, drawings, rack elevations, cable schedules, MOPs, runbooks, client standards, and acceptance requirements.
- Monitor production, labor utilization, milestone readiness, schedule performance, and recovery needs.
- Identify and escalate field risks, blockers, material shortages, access issues, scope gaps, safety concerns, and change indicators.
- Inspect completed work for quality, labeling, port accuracy, cable management, cleanliness, safety, and compliance.
- Oversee rack-and-stack, structured cabling, fiber, copper, equipment deployment, remediation, MEP support, and smart-hands activities.
- Drive punch-list closure, rework correction, closeout documentation, and customer-readiness reviews.
- Ensure accurate daily reports, manpower reports, progress updates, issue logs, photos, redlines, and closeout evidence.
- Coordinate with clients, general contractors, PMs, TPLs, commissioning teams, engineers, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Enforce site safety requirements, PPE rules, stop-work expectations, company policies, and customer-specific procedures.
- Train and develop lead technicians, field technicians, future superintendents, and future Technical Project Leads.
- Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies to the requirements section
- Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired skills and experience:- 8+ years of experience in data center, telecommunications, structured cabling, network infrastructure, critical-facility field operations, or related construction environments.
- 3+ years of experience leading field crews as a superintendent, foreman, lead technician, or equivalent field leader.
- BICSI certification, such as RCDD, RTPM, DCDC, or Installer certification is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of rack-and-stack, copper cabling, fiber-optic cabling, labeling, cable management, grounding, bonding, installation quality, and closeout standards.
- Experience working in active data centers, colocation facilities, hyperscale environments, construction sites, or critical infrastructure facilities.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, cable schedules, rack elevations, port maps, MOPs, SOPs, runbooks, and project requirements.
- Strong understanding of daily field planning, sequencing, manpower planning, material readiness, access coordination, progress control, and schedule recovery.
- Ability to inspect work, enforce quality standards, drive punch closure, verify closeout evidence, and prevent customer-facing rework.
- Strong leadership, communication, documentation, customer-facing judgment, problem-solving, and risk escalation skills.
- Experience with AI data centers, GPU clusters, high-performance computing, liquid-cooled infrastructure, hyperscale deployments, commissioning support, or smart-hands operations preferred.
- BICSI, OSHA 30, CPR/First Aid, or related field certifications preferred.
- Experience with Monday.com, Smartsheet, Procore, CxAlloy, SharePoint, resource management platforms, or similar project tracking tools preferred.
- Valid driver's license and ability to meet travel, background, drug, safety, and site-access screening requirements.
- Ability to travel approximately 75% to 90% nationwide
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, assist with heavier team lifts, work from ladders/lifts/platforms/raised-floor environments when authorized, and perform extended field walks while wearing required PPE.
Some of Our Benefits:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Company-funded 401k contributions
- 100% employer covered individual & family health insurance plans provided
- Transparent, candid culture with 1:1 coaching, quarterly performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop
- Team-building events
- Quirky, diverse, respectful, high-performing coworkers you'll want to achieve greatness with!
Must be based in the United States.Pursuant to the NYC Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range in New York City for this position is $140,000.00- $150,000.00 plus opportunities for bonus and/or commission. Compensation in other geographies may vary.