Data Center Project Engineer - Sabey Data Centers

Another Source • New York, NY

3h • $110,589 - $165,884 • Onsite

About The Position

Sabey Data Centers is hiring a Data Center Project Engineer for its New York operations team in Manhattan. The role combines end-to-end project ownership with hands-on support of critical facility operations. The engineer will manage infrastructure projects from concept through closeout while coordinating maintenance, reviewing technical documentation, troubleshooting facility conditions, and working with customers, contractors, vendors, engineers, and operations leaders.

This is a highly self-directed role in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment. The engineer is expected to advance complex work with minimal day-to-day instruction while protecting uptime, safety, quality, schedule, budget, compliance, and customer experience. The position offers broad exposure to electrical, mechanical, controls, construction, commissioning, and critical facility operations.

The standard schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The position participates in an on-call schedule and may periodically support after-hours maintenance and critical facility activities. Flexible hours, shifts, overtime, and weekends may also be needed based on business requirements.

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.
• Relevant experience in one or more 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.
• 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, and ability to learn construction management, scheduling, maintenance, monitoring, ticketing, documentation, and AI-enabled productivity tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for 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.
• Self-directed and accountable approach, with 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.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and pre-employment drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• Mission-critical or data center experience is strongly preferred.
• 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 are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage project scopes, budgets, estimates, schedules, work plans, procurement, change orders, customer requests, turnover, and closeout from concept through completion.
• Review drawings, specifications, submittals, procedures, operational requirements, constructability risks, outage risks, cost impacts, and schedule conflicts.
• Coordinate design partners, contractors, vendors, trades, commissioning activities, and project meetings.
• Support hands-on operation of a 24/7 critical facility, monitoring equipment status, operating conditions, tenant needs, and operational risk.
• Lead and coordinate preventive maintenance, inspections, testing, repairs, installations, upgrades, and equipment replacements while minimizing downtime and customer impact.
• Monitor temperature, humidity, power usage, alarms, controls, dashboards, and equipment health; diagnose abnormal conditions and coordinate corrective action and escalation.
• Develop and maintain MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, disaster recovery procedures, critical work procedures, project and maintenance records, incident documentation, and asset information.
• Support on-call duties, emergency response, incident resolution, business continuity, and service restoration as needed.
• Build working relationships with customers, internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, technicians, engineers, and operations leaders; set expectations and verify work quality.
• Maintain a safe, clean, organized, labeled, and operationally ready facility in alignment with site procedures, safety requirements, security protocols, and compliance standards.
• Identify and implement improvements to reliability, efficiency, cost control, documentation quality, and execution speed, including practical use of AI tools, automation platforms, and digital systems.

Benefits

• Sabey covers 100% of employee-only premiums for base medical and PPO dental plans.
• Annual Health Savings Account contribution of up to $2,000.
• Up to 5 weeks of PTO based on tenure, plus 10 paid holidays and the ability to carry over unused PTO.
• Competitive, matched 401(k) retirement plan.
• Structured professional and personal development programs, including Thought Patterns for High Performance, Everything DiSC, and Built to Last.
• Long-term career growth and internal mobility.

What This Job Offers

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