Technical Project Manager - Building Systems Network Infrastructure

DC BLOX•Atlanta, GA

10d

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager coordinates design assurance, detailed planning, and construction coordination for network and structured-cabling infrastructure supporting Building Management Systems (BMS), Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS), and physical security systems on new construction projects. The role applies the established network Basis of Design (BOD) to each project, reviews drawings and related documents for compliance, records discrepancies through formal design-review markups, and develops project-specific infrastructure details needed for construction. The position works across controls, security, network engineering, design, construction, and site teams, with regular jobsite visits to assess readiness, identify risks, and help align network-dependent work with target completion dates. The role translates system requirements and device schedules into infrastructure plans, including switch ports and quantities, endpoint assignments, patch panels, fiber terminations, uplinks, optics, rack space, cable management, and supporting requirements. It reviews and coordinates design comments, maintains project documentation, evaluates proposed changes, and supports RFIs, construction coordination, testing, commissioning, punch lists, and turnover. A central focus is endpoint resiliency and failure-domain analysis. The Project Manager evaluates endpoint relationships, adjacency, coverage overlap, equipment redundancy, and common-mode failure exposure to distribute operationally related devices appropriately across network switch failure domains. The role documents noncompliance and coordinates review and approval of exceptions when constraints prevent compliance with allocation rules.

Requirements

Five or more years of relevant experience in network infrastructure, structured cabling, low-voltage systems, controls, physical security, construction coordination, or technical project delivery.
Working knowledge of Ethernet switching, copper and fiber cabling, optics, VLAN concepts, equipment-room design, network failure domains, and spare-capacity planning.
Demonstrated ability to apply a Basis of Design and translate equipment or device schedules into network, cabling, panel, rack-layout, and switch-allocation requirements.
Ability to interpret and mark up construction drawings, specifications, floor plans, riser diagrams, device schedules, submittals, and cable-test reports.
Experience producing structured technical documentation such as drawing markups, cable matrices, panel schedules, rack elevations, port schedules, equipment lists, decision logs, and project trackers.
Strong written, verbal, and cross-functional coordination skills, including ability to communicate technical risks to engineering and construction audiences.
Ability to travel regularly within the United States and work safely in active construction environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting data centers, critical facilities, industrial environments, or other high-availability infrastructure.
Direct exposure to BMS, EPMS, CCTV, access control, or industrial controls deployments.
Experience evaluating adjacency, coverage, equipment grouping, or other failure-domain constraints when assigning endpoints to network infrastructure.
Familiarity with construction administration practices, including submittals, RFIs, change impacts, punch lists, commissioning, and turnover documentation.
Relevant credentials such as BICSI RCDD or RTPM, PMP, CCNA, Network+, or controls/security certifications.

Responsibilities

Coordinate with BMS, EPMS, security, MEP, network engineering, and construction teams to gather device, connectivity, bandwidth, availability, and schedule requirements.
Reconcile device and equipment schedules across controls, security, telecommunications, and network design documents, identifying missing, inconsistent, or unresolved requirements.
Translate device and equipment schedules into infrastructure requirements, including switch-port counts and quantities, endpoint assignments, patch panels, fiber terminations, uplinks, optics, rack space, cable management, and supporting infrastructure.
Identify capacity, pathway, equipment-room, and schedule constraints early for resolution by the responsible design or construction team.
Review drawings, specifications, riser diagrams, floor plans, schedules, and details for compliance with the established network BOD.
Verify that BOD requirements for cabling, fiber, patch panels, termination hardware, labeling, testing, rack layouts, spare capacity, and pathway diversity are represented consistently in project documents.
Prepare traceable drawing markups at design milestones for missing, incorrect, ambiguous, or inconsistent BOD requirements; coordinate comments through resolution and review subsequent revisions.
Analyze BMS, EPMS, and security endpoint relationships and translate resiliency requirements into failure-domain-aware switch assignments.
Work with controls and security designers to identify endpoint adjacency, camera coverage overlap, equipment redundancy groups, and common-mode failure risks.
Develop and validate endpoint allocation rules that prevent a single switch failure from affecting adjacent, redundant, or operationally dependent devices; reassess allocations as designs change.
Separate endpoints serving redundant equipment trains or A-side/B-side systems when necessary to preserve facility resiliency; document noncompliant conditions and coordinate exception reviews and approvals.
Determine copper patch-panel quantities and sizes at MDFs and IDFs based on endpoint counts, switch assignments, spare capacity, resiliency, maintainability, and future growth.
Determine fiber termination-panel quantities, rack-space requirements, and termination relationships using BOD standards.
Produce rack elevations identifying racks, rack-unit positions, panels, cable management, reserved owner-furnished switch locations, and growth space.
Develop cable tables and endpoint-to-panel-to-switch allocation schedules with locations, cable types, panel and port assignments, switch assignments, failure-domain groups, and drawing references.
Create and maintain endpoint resiliency matrices, panel and port schedules, connectivity diagrams, equipment lists, design decision logs, and approved exception records.
Support RFIs and evaluate proposed design or field changes for capacity, resiliency, cabling, schedule, and operational impacts; coordinate decisions with the appropriate network architecture or engineering authority.
Track network-related milestones, dependencies, action items, risks, and decisions across assigned new-build projects.
Participate in construction coordination meetings and communicate status, dependencies, and issues that could affect controls, security, commissioning, or turnover dates.
Review contractor submittals and shop drawings for consistency with the BOD, approved drawings, rack elevations, panel quantities, cable tables, and pathway-diversity requirements.
Conduct regular jobsite visits to assess equipment-room readiness, rack installation, panel placement, pathways, cable installation, labeling, and testing progress.
Compare approved design intent with field conditions, document discrepancies, and coordinate corrective actions.
Coordinate network-infrastructure readiness for controls and security testing and commissioning.
Maintain punch-list items and verify receipt of cable-test results, redlines, as-built documentation, final panel schedules, and endpoint-to-port records.