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This role directly manages Project Engineers (PE) and Implementation Specialists (IS) and is accountable for the people, capability, standards, capacity, quality, and readiness required to support Data Center infrastructure deployments across North America. The Practice Manager builds a scalable capability by developing senior technical leaders, establishing consistent execution standards, understanding future demand, and ensuring complex work is supported by the right technical authority and onsite leadership. Project Engineers retain technical authority for their assigned projects, while Implementation Specialists lead onsite execution.\nAnnual compensation: $130K - $170K USD\n15% - 20% travel as needed.\nWhat you’ll be doing\nLead, coach, develop, and hold accountable the Project Engineers and Implementation Specialists assigned to the Data Center practice.\nSet clear expectations for technical leadership, execution quality, utilization, communication, behavior, and employee development.\nMaintain a current view of PE and IS skills, experience, certifications, readiness, location, availability, and development needs.\nCreate training, mentoring, succession, and career-development plans that build leadership depth and reduce dependency on individual experts.\nWork with Resource Management and delivery leaders to align qualified PEs and ISs to projects based on complexity, technical risk, geography, and customer requirements.\nForecast capability and capacity gaps and recommend hiring, contractor, cross-training, partner, or investment actions.\nEstablish and maintain repeatable Data Center field execution standards, work methods, technical checkpoints, documentation requirements, and acceptance expectations.\nMonitor technical escalations, repeat defects, rework, partner performance, and customer feedback and drive practice-level corrective action.\nSupport the technical evaluation, onboarding, enablement, and performance review of Data Center delivery partners.\nPartner with Project Management, Solutions, Sales, Estimating, Resource Management, Finance, Partner Management, and Field Engineering leadership.\nSupport major opportunities and programs by validating that the proposed technical leadership and workforce model is practical and executable.\nMonitor utilization, productivity, cost, labor mix, workforce risk, and other practice performance indicators.\nWhat you have\nStrong understanding of rack installation, land and level, rack build, rack-and-stack, integration, and cable-management systems.\nKnowledge of copper and fiber installation, routing, dressing, patching, termination, testing, labeling, documentation, and acceptance requirements.\nExperience with server, network, storage, power-distribution, or other infrastructure installation within approved scope.\nUnderstanding of site surveys, readiness reviews, commissioning, migration, cutover, technical closeout, and quality evidence.\nExperience working in high-density, active, construction, commissioning, colocation, mission-critical, or hyperscale Data Center environments.\nStrong safety and operational discipline related to access control, contamination control, raised floors, overhead work, material handling, and customer-specific site requirements.\nAt least 8 years of field engineering, Data Center infrastructure delivery, technical services, or related experience.\nAt least 3 years of direct people leadership, performance management, and employee development experience.\nDemonstrated experience leading or developing Project Engineers, technical authorities, onsite leaders, or comparable senior technical roles.\nStrong technical credibility in Data Center infrastructure deployment and partner-led field execution.\nExperience with workforce planning, utilization, technical standards, quality improvement, and contractor or partner delivery.\nAbility to make clear readiness decisions and challenge staffing or delivery models that create unacceptable execution risk.\nStrong communication, financial judgment, operational discipline, and cross-functional leadership skills.\nLegal authorization to work in the United States.\nBonus points\nTen to twelve or more years of progressive Data Center field engineering or infrastructure-delivery experience.\nExperience supporting complex, high-volume, multi-site, colocation, mission-critical, or hyperscale programs.\nExperience developing technical proficiency frameworks, qualification criteria, standard work methods, training programs, or succession plans.\nExperience evaluating and developing national, regional, specialty, or union-capable delivery partners.\nRelevant BICSI, fiber, copper, manufacturer, OSHA, safety, project-delivery, or Data Center credentials.\nBachelor's degree or equivalent technical, trade, military, operational, and leadership experience.\nWhat you can expect\nThere’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.\nAbout us\nComputacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. 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