Data Center Project Engineer - Sabey Data Centers

Another Source • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Sabey Data Centers is seeking a Data Center Project Engineer to join their Operations team in Manhattan, NY. This role is crucial for supporting the growth of their New York operations by delivering critical infrastructure projects, ensuring uptime, reliability, and an excellent customer experience. The position offers a blend of hands-on technical problem-solving and end-to-end project ownership in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment. The standard work schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with participation in an on-call schedule and potential support for 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.
• 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 in the facility environment.
• Willingness to support flexible hours, shifts, overtime, weekends, and on-call assignments as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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, maintaining awareness of 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, emergency response, incident resolution, business continuity, and service restoration activities as needed.
• Build strong working relationships with customers, internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, technicians, engineers, and operations leaders while setting expectations and verifying 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 that strengthen 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.
• Contributes up to $2,000 annually to a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Up to 5 weeks of PTO based on tenure.
• 10 paid holidays.
• Ability to carry over unused PTO.
• Competitive, matched 401(k) retirement plan.
• Access to structured professional and personal development programs, including Thought Patterns for High Performance, Everything DiSC, and Built to Last.
• Long-term career growth opportunities.
• Internal mobility.
• Bonus eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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