Field Engineering Manager - Data Center

This is an internal position. About the role We are seeking a Field Engineering Practice Manager to lead our Data Center technical leadership organization. This role directly manages Project Engineers (PE) and Implementation Specialists (IS) and is accountable for the people, capability, standards, capacity, quality, and readiness required to support Data Center infrastructure deployments across North America. The Practice Manager builds a scalable capability by developing senior technical leaders, establishing consistent execution standards, understanding future demand, and ensuring complex work is supported by the right technical authority and onsite leadership. Project Engineers retain technical authority for their assigned projects, while Implementation Specialists lead onsite execution. 15% - 20% travel as needed. Annual compensation: $130K - $170K USD What you’ll be doing Lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable the Project Engineers and Implementation Specialists assigned to the Data Center practice. Set clear expectations for technical leadership, execution quality, utilization, communication, behavior, and employee development. Maintain a current view of PE and IS skills, experience, certifications, readiness, location, availability, and development needs. Create training, mentoring, succession, and career-development plans that build leadership depth and reduce dependency on individual experts. Work with Resource Management and delivery leaders to align qualified PEs and ISs to projects based on complexity, technical risk, geography, and customer requirements. Forecast capability and capacity gaps and recommend hiring, contractor, cross-training, partner, or investment actions. Establish and maintain repeatable Data Center field execution standards, work methods, technical checkpoints, documentation requirements, and acceptance expectations. Monitor technical escalations, repeat defects, rework, partner performance, and customer feedback and drive practice-level corrective action. Support the technical evaluation, onboarding, enablement, and performance review of Data Center delivery partners. Partner with Project Management, Solutions, Sales, Estimating, Resource Management, Finance, Partner Management, and Field Engineering leadership. Support major opportunities and programs by validating that the proposed technical leadership and workforce model is practical and executable. Monitor utilization, productivity, cost, labor mix, workforce risk, and other practice performance indicators. What you have  Strong understanding of rack installation, land and level, rack build, rack-and-stack, integration, and cable-management systems. Knowledge of copper and fiber installation, routing, dressing, patching, termination, testing, labeling, documentation, and acceptance requirements. Experience with server, network, storage, power-distribution, or other infrastructure installation…