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You will serve as a technical authority across multiple projects and sites, providing leadership to technicians and Site Leads while ensuring work is technically ready, executed correctly, and completed to established quality and safety standards.\n\n*Key Responsibilities:*\n\n* Serve as the senior onsite technical authority for execution decisions, escalations, and quality standards across multiple data center sites and projects.\n* Lead and mentor Site Leads and Data Center Technicians, serving as the technical escalation layer above Site Leads across locations.\n* Validate project scope, sequencing, crew capability, tools, materials, and technical readiness before work begins.\n* Provide technical oversight and hands-on expertise across MOR (Middle of Row), PRD (Pre-Rack Deployment), White Glove, Post Dock, NDT file creation and interpretation, and cable termination.\n* Identify technical risks, provide go/no-go input before complex or high-risk work begins, and intervene when execution deviates from established standards.\n* Certify work quality and completion across MOR, PRD, White Glove, and Post Dock scopes to ensure established technical and acceptance standards are met.\n* Train and mentor technicians through hands-on execution, demonstrating proper methods and developing technical capabilities.\n* Lead complex, high-risk, and first-of-kind deployments requiring advanced technical judgment.\n* Ensure accurate project documentation, technical records, and reporting.\n\n*Qualifications:*\n\n* Expert in data center technical infrastructure, including MOR, PRD, White Glove, Post Dock, NDT file creation and interpretation, and cable termination.\n* Extensive hands-on experience as a Data Center Technician with demonstrated career progression into senior technical and leadership responsibilities.\n* Proven experience leading, training, and mentoring Data Center Technicians.\n* Advanced troubleshooting skills with the ability to independently resolve complex or non-routine technical issues.\n* Strong understanding of data center deployment processes, technical standards, quality requirements, and safety procedures.\n* Ability to read and interpret technical documentation and project requirements.\n* Must have reliable transportation to commute between data centers throughout Northern Virginia. Occasional nationwide travel with increased pay.\n\nPay: $33.00 - $36.00 per hour\n\nExpected hours: 40.0 per week\n\nBenefits:\n* 401(k)\n* 401(k) matching\n* Dental insurance\n* Health insurance\n* Health savings account\n* Life insurance\n* Paid time off\n* Vision insurance\n\nApplication Question(s):\n* Are you currently a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder?\n* How many years of experience do you have working specifically as a Data Center Technician?\n* Have you personally performed MOR (Middle of Row), PRD (Pre-Rack Deployment), White Glove, and Post Dock activities as part of your job responsibilities?\n* Have you created and interpreted NDT files as part of your job responsibilities?\n* Have you personally performed structured cable termination in a live data center environment as part of your job responsibilities?\n* Have you been directly responsible for leading, training, and mentoring a team of Data Center Technicians?\n* How many Data Center Technicians have you directly supervised at one time? 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