Job SummaryThe Technical Director is responsible for providing program-level technical leadership, governance, and oversight of execution across multiple customers, regions, and project teams. This role serves as the senior technical authority for assigned programs, ensuring consistent standards, engineering alignment, schedule coordination, and technical discipline across all work.
The Technical Director partners closely with Program Leadership, Operations, Quality, and Field teams to ensure projects are executed in accordance with IES standards, customer technical requirements, and program objectives. This role is program-based and customer-agnostic, enabling scalable support across multiple accounts and regions.
General Job Duties and Responsibilities:- Provide program-level technical governance and oversight across all program projects and regions.
- Establish, maintain, and enforce standardized technical execution practices, engineering standards, and documentation requirements.
- Provide leadership and direction to Technical Managers and Senior Field Engineers supporting the program.
- Provide oversight to program-assigned schedulers to ensure schedule discipline, forecasting accuracy, and coordination with operations.
- Serve as the program-level escalation point for technical issues impacting delivery, schedule, or customer confidence.
- Ensure consistent application of technical requirements, specifications, and standards across all sites.
- Support program startup and readiness processes, including engineering reviews, constructability alignment, and execution planning.
- Partner with Pre-Construction teams to support scope validation, constructability reviews, estimating support, and proposal development.
- Support program-level change management discipline, including scope validation, technical justification, and trend visibility.
- Monitor program-level performance metrics, dashboards, and KPIs related to technical execution and schedule health.
- Identify technical risks early and support mitigation and recovery planning as required.
- Drive continuous improvement, lessons learned, and best-practice adoption across programs.
- Reinforce company safety culture, technical accountability, and Stop Work Authority expectations.
- Participate in customer meetings, performance reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
Physical and Mental Requirements: - Must be self-motivated, professional, and able to lead cross-functional teams through influence rather than direct authority.
- Must promote the culture and mission of IES to employees, vendors, and customers.
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, and communication skills.
- Ability to interpret technical documentation, specifications, reporting, and quality requirements.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across regions and departments.
- Ability to travel nationally as required to support program needs.
Additional Requirements:
- Must have proven skill in interpreting project documentation, specifications, reporting, and quality requirements.
- Must be able to travel nationally as required to support hyperscale customer program sites.
- Must possess the ability to learn and utilize the Company and customer project management and reporting systems.
- Must be able to successfully secure and maintain a Company-sponsored corporate card.
Regular attendance is mandatory.
- Must possess the ability to learn the company and customer project management systems.
Education, Certification, License, and Skill Requirements: - Must have experience in customer interface, such as liaison between the customer and the Company.
- Must possess a minimum of seven (7) years supervisory or managerial experience.
- Must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in telecommunications or a related technical or construction field.
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and MS Project).
- Must meet Company minimum driving standards.
- Must be able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
- Must be able to supervise multiple PMs. Must have demonstrated verifiable ability to define a project, create a project scope of work, develop detailed associated tasks, and manage these to final completion and customer turnover.
- Must possess at least a High School diploma or GED equivalency; bachelor's degree preferred.
Minimum Years of Experience
6+
License Required
No
Minimum Education
High School
