Field Engineering Manager - Structured Cabling & Low Voltage

Field Engineering Manager - Structured Cabling & Low Voltage

Lead field engineering support across complex data-center, telecommunications, and technical infrastructure projects, serving as the bridge between design intent, field execution, installation quality, testing, and turnover. This hands-on leadership role gives superintendents, foremen, leads, and project teams the technical direction, documentation, and problem-solving support needed to execute correctly the first time.

The best fit is a technically strong low-voltage or structured-cabling leader who can interpret drawings and specifications, resolve field installation issues, standardize execution, coach field teams, and maintain consistent quality across multiple active projects.

Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Schedule: Full time; schedule flexibility and occasional travel based on project demands

Work Setting: Onsite across office and active construction environments

Role Type: Direct hire

Compensation: Market rate. The hiring team is more interested in finding the right person than limiting the search to a fixed number and will work with qualified candidates to build a competitive offer based on experience, technical depth, and overall fit.

Benefits

• Direct influence on installation quality and project success across mission-critical infrastructure projects.
• Partnership with project managers, superintendents, quality teams, commissioning teams, and customers.
• Career development through mentoring, technical and safety training, and certification support.
• Broad exposure to field engineering, project delivery, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• People-first culture centered on safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Comprehensive compensation package with benefits, development opportunities, and long-term growth potential.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical resource across multiple structured-cabling, telecommunications, low-voltage, and data-center projects.
• Analyze drawings, specifications, schematics, scope documents, revisions, and installation packages for constructability, risk, and technical accuracy.
• Guide superintendents, foremen, leads, installers, and technicians on design interpretation, pathways, installation methods, labeling, testing, documentation, and quality.
• Resolve issues involving copper and fiber infrastructure, telecommunications rooms, racks and cabinets, pathways, grounding and bonding, terminations, system performance, and cross-trade coordination.
• Coordinate RFIs, submittals, revisions, design changes, and technical clarifications with project managers, customers, designers, quality teams, and commissioning teams.
• Participate in preconstruction planning, scope validation, risk identification, execution planning, work packaging, testing plans, and turnover planning.
• Perform field walks and technical reviews to confirm compliance with approved drawings, specifications, customer requirements, manufacturer instructions, and BICSI/TIA/ANSI standards.
• Support copper and fiber testing, validation, deficiency resolution, commissioning, operational readiness, closeout documentation, and final turnover.
• Develop field-engineering procedures, technical standards, checklists, installation details, lessons learned, and quality-control practices.
• Coach field personnel to improve technical judgment, installation consistency, documentation, and first-pass acceptance.
• Identify recurring problems and lead standardization, corrective action, and continuous improvement across projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of field engineering, structured-cabling, telecommunications, low-voltage construction, or technical project-support experience.
• Experience within data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of copper and fiber cabling, telecommunications spaces, pathways, racks/cabinets, labeling, testing, documentation, and related low-voltage infrastructure.
• Ability to interpret drawings, schematics, specifications, details, submittals, RFIs, and design revisions.
• Working knowledge of BICSI, TIA/EIA, ANSI, and related telecommunications and data-center practices.
• Experience identifying constructability and technical issues, leading root-cause analysis, and implementing practical field solutions.
• Experience supporting testing, system validation, commissioning, punch resolution, as-builts, and turnover.
• Ability to explain technical issues clearly to field personnel, customers, project managers, designers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience coaching installers, technicians, foremen, superintendents, or field engineers.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, technical escalations, and documentation requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, smartphones, tablets, and project-tracking platforms such as Smartsheet.
• High school diploma or GED required.

Preferred Qualifications

• BICSI RCDD, RTPM, Technician, DCDC, OSP, or relevant manufacturer certifications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Telecommunications, or a related discipline.
• Data-center Layer-1 experience involving high-density copper/fiber, OTDR/OLTS or certification testing, labeling, and turnover documentation.
• Experience supporting Division 27 communications or Division 28 electronic safety and security systems.
• Experience developing technical training, field standards, installation checklists, quality metrics, or lessons-learned programs.

Work Environment

This role operates in office and active construction environments. Work may require standing, walking, climbing, bending, kneeling, close visual review of plans and field conditions, and lifting up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities.