Data Center Project Engineer - Sabey Data Centers

This is a great opportunity for someone with strong data center/critical facilities operations experience who enjoys wearing multiple hats-from mechanical and electrical systems to customer support and project work. You’ll join a small, collaborative team where you’ll have meaningful ownership and the opportunity to make an immediate impact., As the Data Center Project Engineer, New York, you will support a high-workload New York City data center where project execution and critical facility operations go hand in hand. You will manage projects from concept through closeout while coordinating maintenance, reviewing technical documentation, troubleshooting facility conditions, and working closely with customers, contractors, vendors, engineers, and operations leaders.

This is a highly self-directed role for someone who can move complex work forward with minimal day-to-day instruction while maintaining a sharp focus on uptime, safety, quality, schedule, budget, compliance, and customer impact. You’ll gain broad exposure across electrical, mechanical, controls, construction, commissioning, and critical facility operations while helping identify practical ways to improve reliability and execution.

Your Contribution Will Likely Include Managing project scopes, budgets, estimates, schedules, work plans, procurement, change orders, customer requests, turnover, and closeout from concept through completion.

• Reviewing drawings, specifications, submittals, procedures, operational requirements, constructability risks, outage risks, cost impacts, and schedule conflicts.

• Coordinating design partners, contractors, vendors, trades, commissioning activities, and project meetings.

• Supporting hands-on operation of a 24/7 critical facility, maintaining awareness of equipment status, operating conditions, tenant needs, and operational risk.

• Leading and coordinating preventive maintenance, inspections, testing, repairs, installations, upgrades, and equipment replacements while minimizing downtime and customer impact.

• Monitoring temperature, humidity, power usage, alarms, controls, dashboards, and equipment health; diagnosing abnormal conditions and coordinating corrective action and escalation.

• Developing and maintaining MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, disaster recovery procedures, critical work procedures, project and maintenance records, incident documentation, and asset information.

• Supporting on-call, emergency response, incident resolution, business continuity, and service restoration activities as needed.

• Building strong working relationships with customers, internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, technicians, engineers, and operations leaders while setting expectations and verifying work quality.

• Maintaining a safe, clean, organized, labeled, and operationally ready facility in alignment with site procedures, safety requirements, security protocols, and compliance standards.

• Identifying and implementing improvements that strengthen reliability, efficiency, cost control, documentation quality, and execution speed, including practical use of AI tools, automation platforms, and digital systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Management, Project Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• Demonstrated experience maintaining, troubleshooting, deploying, coordinating, or supporting building infrastructure in a critical facility; mission-critical or data center experience is strongly preferred.

• Relevant experience across areas such as mechanical, electrical, controls, building automation, construction, commissioning, operations, facilities, monitoring systems, network infrastructure, or related critical infrastructure.

• Working understanding of data center operations, redundancy, uptime expectations, preventive maintenance, incident response, project plans and specifications, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, estimates, contractor coordination, and construction execution.

• Technical certifications, trade school, military technical experience, college coursework, or training related to data center operations, electrical, mechanical, controls, construction, project management, or critical facilities strongly preferred.

• Ability to quickly learn site-specific electrical, mechanical, controls, environmental, monitoring, security, and operational systems through manuals, drawings, procedures, documentation, and field training.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and related collaboration tools, with the ability to learn construction management, scheduling, maintenance, monitoring, ticketing, documentation, and AI-enabled productivity tools.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively during operational events, maintenance activities, projects, customer interactions, and vendor or contractor coordination.

• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, critical thinking, time management, prioritization, organizational, and documentation skills.

• A self-directed, accountable approach with the ability to prioritize competing work in a fast-paced environment without compromising safety, uptime, quality, compliance, or customer impact.

• Ability to maneuver and lift up to 50 pounds and operate hand and power tools as required in the facility environment.

• Willingness to support flexible hours, shifts, overtime, weekends, and on-call assignments as business needs require.

paid holidays, 401(k), retirement plan, SabeyLife includes:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Sabey covers 100% of employee-only premiums for base medical and PPO dental plans and contributes up to $2,000 annually to a Health Savings Account (HSA).

• Time to Recharge: Up to 5 weeks of PTO based on tenure, plus 10 paid holidays and the ability to carry over unused PTO.

• Financial Wellness: Competitive, matched 401(k) retirement plan.

• Growth & Development: Access to structured professional and personal development programs, including Thought Patterns for High Performance, Everything DiSC, and Built to Last.

Sabey offers long-term career growth, internal mobility, and a culture where people who are humble, hungry, and smart are supported and promoted from within - something few competitors can match.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $110,589 - $165,884 plus bonus eligibility.

We’re hiring a Data Center Project Engineer to join Sabey Data Centers’ Operations team in Manhattan, NY!, Another Source’s client, Sabey Data Centers is recruiting a Data Center Project Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. As Sabey’s New York operations continue to grow, this newly added role will help the team deliver critical infrastructure projects while protecting the uptime, reliability, and customer experience that define a high-performing data center. It’s an opportunity to combine hands-on technical problem solving with end-to-end project ownership in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment.

The standard work schedule for this role is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This position will also participate in an on-call schedule and may periodically support after-hours maintenance and critical facility activities.

Who is Sabey Data Centers?

Sabey Data Centers is a premier multi-tenant data center provider, setting the standard for operational excellence, efficiency, and sustained uptime. With over 20 years of expertise and three million square feet of mission-critical space, Sabey is the largest privately-owned data center owner and operator in the United States. Their cutting-edge facilities-located in Tukwila, WA (20 minutes outside Seattle); East Wenatchee, WA; Quincy, WA; New York, NY; Ashburn, VA; and Austin, TX, with a new location coming soon in Umatilla, OR-support top-tier financial institutions, technology giants, media powerhouses, and healthcare leaders, delivering unparalleled reliability, security, and scalability. By prioritizing sustainability and innovation, Sabey Data Centers continues to shape the digital infrastructure of the future.

SDC is one of the few companies in the industry that both builds and operates its own facilities, giving employees a unique end-to-end view of the data center world. We foster a culture where people who are humble, hungry, and smart are truly valued, supported, and promoted from within. Sabey is deeply committed to being a responsible community partner, returning unused energy to grids and collaborating with local utilities for sustainable impact. While competitors may offer higher salaries, few can match Sabey’s positive culture, purpose-driven mission, and long-term career growth opportunities., Sabey is committed to building an enduring, next-generation company that values and invests in the success of its team members. Through SabeyLife, a holistic well-being initiative, Sabey provides the resources, benefits, and support to help employees thrive both professionally and personally. https://sabey.com/about/careers, Sabey Corporation and its subsidiaries, including Sabey Data Centers and Sabey Construction, are equal opportunity employers and drug-free workplaces. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and pre-employment drug screening.