[Hiring] Technical Manager @IES Communications

Role Description

The Technical Manager serves as the program’s primary technical authority, responsible for technical governance, testing oversight, commissioning support, and standardization of technical practices across large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure programs. This role ensures engineered systems are tested, documented, and delivered in accordance with company standards, customer requirements, and program governance frameworks.

This position combines traditional technical management responsibilities with full lifecycle technical documentation and testing oversight, including:

• Cable schedule development
• RFI management
• Testing plan development
• Revision control
• Turnover readiness verification
• Maintenance of program-level tracking tools

The Technical Manager provides technical leadership and guidance to Field Engineers across multiple sites and regions, ensuring consistent execution and high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must be self-motivated, positive in approach, professional, and lead others to create, develop, and implement project process improvements.
• Must promote the culture and mission of IES, as well as program objectives, to all employees, vendors, clients, and business partners.
• Must have proven problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, and the ability to effectively read, write, and give oral presentations.
• Must have proven high-level skills to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to scope, specifications, reporting, and quality metrics.
• Must be able to travel within branch territory and/or regional territory as needed.
• Must have the ability to learn Company and customer project management systems.
• Must be able to successfully secure and maintain a Company-sponsored American Express credit card.

Requirements

• Must possess at least a high school diploma or equivalent; bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Must have experience in customer interactions and General Contractor interactions.
• Must have a minimum of five (5) years of supervisory or managerial experience.
• Must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in the telecommunications industry.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and MS Project).
• Must meet Company minimum driving standards.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
• Must have demonstrated and verifiable ability to create and manage a project schedule, scope of work, and detailed associated tasks, from project initiation through final completion and customer turnover.
• English language proficiency, including the ability to speak, read, write, and understand English, is required.

Company Description

IES is a national provider of industrial products and infrastructure services to a variety of end markets, including electrical, mechanical and communications contracting solutions for the commercial, industrial, residential and renewable energy markets. IES is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol IESC. As of the end of IES’s 2023 fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, IES produced over $2.3 billion in revenue and employed over 8,400 employees at over 129 domestic locations across the United States.

IES is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Minorities, Females, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Individuals with Disabilities, Protected Veterans Encouraged to Apply.