[Hiring] Manager, Connectivity @Southland Industries

Role Description

Leads strategy and execution across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, standards, and performance expectations. Oversees teams and partners while driving quality, compliance, operational effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

• Owns and executes the connectivity strategy across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with quality, schedule, and compliance requirements.
• Develops and maintains standard operating procedures, installation standards, and quality criteria.
• Leads evaluation and selection of technologies, systems, and vendor solutions to support project needs.
• Manages and develops internal teams, providing leadership, mentorship, and performance oversight.
• Serves as escalation point for complex technical issues, quality concerns, and scope decisions.
• Leads contractor selection, onboarding, and performance management, ensuring adherence to scope, standards, and contractual requirements.
• Establishes and monitors performance expectations and key metrics for vendor partners.
• Oversees subcontractor performance, including issue resolution, compliance, and change management.
• Coordinates material planning and logistics across multiple projects to ensure timely delivery.
• Reports project status, risks, and milestones to leadership and stakeholders.
• Communicates schedule impacts, scope gaps, and quality risks, providing recommended mitigation strategies.
• Supports forecasting and budget management for connectivity-related scope.
• Leads quality assurance activities, including inspections, testing, and validation of results.
• Reviews and approves documentation, including test results, as-built drawings, and closeout packages.
• Identifies systemic quality issues and drives corrective actions to improve processes and outcomes.
• Participates in design reviews and provides input on system design, constructability, and standards compliance.
• Reviews and approves design documents, specifications, and project requirements prior to execution.
• Manages the RFI process, including tracking, resolution, and coordination with design teams.
• Promotes and enforces safety standards across all activities and teams.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives through lessons learned and best practice development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in business, computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience with structured cabling and fiber optic infrastructure in data center or mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing connectivity scope across multiple simultaneous projects at a program level.
• Deep technical proficiency in fiber optic testing: OTDR, OLTS, end-face inspection, MPO/MTP polarity and with experience troubleshooting complex system-level faults.
• Experience leading internal technical teams and managing structured cabling subcontractors, including involvement in vendor selection and contract management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of TIA-568, TIA-942, ANSI/BICSI 002, NEC Article 770, and CSI Division 27 specifications.
• Experience participating in design reviews and influencing cabling architecture decisions upstream of construction.
• Experience authoring or contributing to SOPs, installation standards, and QA/QC frameworks.
• Proficiency with MS Suite, Procore, Primavera P6, COINS.
• BICSI RCDD or DCDC certification strongly preferred.
• FOA CFOS/D (Data Center Specialist) or equivalent preferred.
• Manufacturer-level certifications (Corning CCT, CommScope, Panduit, or equivalent) preferred.
• Experience delivering connectivity scope on hyperscale or colocation data center programs preferred.
• Experience with OSP deployments in data center campus environments preferred.
• Primavera P6 proficiency preferred.
• OSHA 30 certification preferred.
• Requires 30–50% travel to active sites in Utah and Ohio.

Benefits

• As a 100% employee-owned company, we offer a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family:
• 401(k) plan with 50% company match (no cap) and immediate 100% vesting.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% paid for employee).
• Annual bonus program based upon performance, achievement, and company profitability.
• Term life, AD&D insurance, and voluntary life insurance.
• Disability income protection insurance.
• Pre-tax flexible spending plans (health and dependent care).
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid holidays, vacation, and personal time.
• Training/professional development opportunities and company-paid memberships for professional associations and licenses.
• Wellness benefits.