Senior Project Manager – Network Infrastructure Design

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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IREN

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201 - 500 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Energy

IREN is a provider of purpose-built, high-performance AI data centers and GPU cloud services across North America. IREN develops, owns and operates large, power-dense facilities designed for demanding AI training and inference workloads, offering turnkey data centers, colocations for customer hardware, and managed GPU cloud access. The company emphasizes vertical integration, 24/7 onsite support, and powering its facilities with 100% renewable energy (including RECs). IREN currently lists six North American locations (including Sweetwater, Childress, Oklahoma, Prince George, Mackenzie, and Canal Flats), with secured power capacity of about 5 GW, several hundred to thousands of MW per site in operational, under-construction, and in-development stages, and roughly 4,900 acres of secured land for AI infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain portfolio network infrastructure standards and submit them to the Director, Network Delivery for approval • Approve or reject telecom and fiber designs, deviations and substitutions; maintain technical exception records and remediation conditions • Run 30/60/90 percent and IFC design reviews for every campus before construction packages are released or carrier orders are placed • Set and track engineering KPIs for standards compliance, RFIs, change orders, testing, documentation and turnover quality • Lead engineering review of OSP and ISP fiber infrastructure across the portfolio • Establish fiber-count and capacity requirements and own spare-capacity strategy • Set fiber-loss budgets, optical performance requirements and distribution and patching architectures • Set standards for carrier entrances, meet-me rooms, duct banks, manholes, handholes and diverse building entrances • Define physical-diversity and shared-risk criteria for candidate routes and review route packages • Define demarcation, rack, cross-connect, power, grounding and carrier equipment placement standards in MMRs • Develop and approve campus fiber backbone architectures and connectivity requirements for MMR, core, MDF, IDF and telecommunications rooms • Determine room, rack and rack-unit positions for network equipment and coordinate A/B power and PDU assignments • Coordinate telecommunications infrastructure with civil, electrical, architectural, structural and mechanical design • Direct external A/E firms and engineering consultants on scopes, deliverables, milestones and review expectations • Review and approve basis-of-design documents, specifications, drawings, fiber schematics, rack elevations, pathway plans, splice diagrams, port assignments and fiber matrices • Hold consultants accountable for quality, completeness, constructability and compliance with IREN standards • Conduct constructability reviews and provide technical direction on field conditions and engineering conflicts raised through RFIs • Participate in engineering-verification walks and confirm installed infrastructure matches approved design intent • Set portfolio fiber acceptance standards, review test packages and define failed-test and deficiency processes • Own NetBox/DCIM physical-infrastructure data standards and define construction-stage handover data requirements • Partner with Network Engineering on physical implementation of logical design and equipment standards • Provide technical input into RFQs, contractor bids and carrier proposals and support make-versus-buy decisions • Identify engineering risks and single points of failure, conduct root-cause analysis and drive corrective actions • Escalate unresolved technical risks to the Director, Network Delivery with recommendations

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of telecommunications, fiber infrastructure, data center engineering or network infrastructure experience • 5+ years of proven project management on mid to large data center or mission-critical programs, including ownership of telecom or fiber design scope through construction and acceptance • Deep technical expertise in outside-plant and inside-plant fiber, carrier entrance and MMR design, campus backbone, structured cabling and telecommunications spaces and pathways • Experience directing engineering consultants and A/E firms and reviewing complex construction and engineering packages • Working knowledge of ANSI/TIA-568, 569, 606 and 758, ISO/IEC 11801, BICSI TDMM and OSP guidance, IEEE 802.3, NEC and applicable NFPA requirements • Advanced understanding of OS2 and OM4/OM5 fiber, MPO/MTP and LC connectivity, optical-loss budgets, Tier 1 and Tier 2/OTDR testing, splice-loss acceptance, DWDM and coherent optics • Experience with NetBox or other DCIM platforms, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Procore or similar tools • Ability to explain technical risk and recommend decisions to technical and executive audiences, in writing and in person • Experience in a fast-paced growth environment and solving complex problems with company-wide impact • OSHA 30 • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Project, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) • Preferred: 100G, 400G and 800G optical connectivity, DWDM and optical transport • Preferred: network equipment physical deployment, A/B power and PDU outlet assignment, cable management and airflow constraints • Preferred: operational technology networks and related physical infrastructure dependencies • Preferred: NetBox/DCIM data standards, naming conventions, port and cable identifiers, and as-built validation • Preferred: authoring and rolling out design standards, templates and acceptance criteria across multiple sites • BICSI RCDD, OSP or RTPM, FOA CFOS/D, PE or equivalent credentials highly regarded • PMP or equivalent highly regarded but not required • Experience supporting high-density AI, HPC or hyperscale environments highly regarded • Experience with direct-to-subcontractor and GC-led delivery highly regarded • Familiarity with GIS tools and Primavera P6 highly regarded • Must be authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Total Compensation package may be inclusive of annual incentive bonus and equity (long-term incentive) • Relocation (as applicable and based on successful candidate circumstances) • 100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees • 75% company paid coverage for dependents • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance • Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan • Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Access to financial planning and legal services • Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays • Internal skills training and advancement pathways • Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training • Company events and team-building activities