Data Center Project Engineer - Sabey Data Centers

Another Source • New York, NY

6h • $110,589 - $165,884 • Onsite

About The Position

Sabey Data Centers is recruiting a Data Center Project Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. As Sabey's New York operations continue to grow, this newly added role will help the team deliver critical infrastructure projects while protecting the uptime, reliability, and customer experience that define a high-performing data center. It's an opportunity to combine hands-on technical problem solving with end-to-end project ownership in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment. The standard work schedule for this role is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This position will also participate in an on-call schedule and may periodically support after-hours maintenance and critical facility activities.

Requirements

• 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 is strongly preferred.
• Relevant experience across areas such as mechanical, electrical, controls, building automation, construction, commissioning, operations, facilities, monitoring systems, network infrastructure, or related critical infrastructure.
• 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.
• 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 strongly preferred.
• 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, with the ability to learn construction management, scheduling, maintenance, monitoring, ticketing, documentation, and AI-enabled productivity tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the 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.
• A 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 and operate hand and power tools as required in the facility environment.
• Willingness to support flexible hours, shifts, overtime, weekends, and on-call assignments as business needs require.

Responsibilities

• Managing project scopes, budgets, estimates, schedules, work plans, procurement, change orders, customer requests, turnover, and closeout from concept through completion.
• Reviewing drawings, specifications, submittals, procedures, operational requirements, constructability risks, outage risks, cost impacts, and schedule conflicts.
• Coordinating design partners, contractors, vendors, trades, commissioning activities, and project meetings.
• Supporting hands-on operation of a 24/7 critical facility, maintaining awareness of equipment status, operating conditions, tenant needs, and operational risk.
• Leading and coordinating preventive maintenance, inspections, testing, repairs, installations, upgrades, and equipment replacements while minimizing downtime and customer impact.
• Monitoring temperature, humidity, power usage, alarms, controls, dashboards, and equipment health; diagnosing abnormal conditions and coordinating corrective action and escalation.
• Developing and maintaining MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, disaster recovery procedures, critical work procedures, project and maintenance records, incident documentation, and asset information.
• Supporting on-call, emergency response, incident resolution, business continuity, and service restoration activities as needed.
• Building strong working relationships with customers, internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, technicians, engineers, and operations leaders while setting expectations and verifying work quality.
• Maintaining a safe, clean, organized, labeled, and operationally ready facility in alignment with site procedures, safety requirements, security protocols, and compliance standards.
• Identifying and implementing improvements that strengthen reliability, efficiency, cost control, documentation quality, and execution speed, including practical use of AI tools, automation platforms, and digital systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits: Sabey covers 100% of employee-only premiums for base medical and PPO dental plans and contributes up to $2,000 annually to a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Time to Recharge: Up to 5 weeks of PTO based on tenure, plus 10 paid holidays and the ability to carry over unused PTO.
• Financial Wellness: Competitive, matched 401(k) retirement plan.
• Growth & Development: Access to structured professional and personal development programs, including Thought Patterns for High Performance, Everything DiSC, and Built to Last.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level