Site Infrastructure Engineer (RCDD)

Apptad Inc is hiring an IT Site Infrastructure Engineer (RCDD) to own the infrastructure content across construction and lifecycle projects. This is a design and program-engineering role where you act as the client technical authority, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure low-voltage work is delivered to specification and accepted with complete documentation.

Location: Santa Clara, CA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 40–45 per hour

What you’ll deliver

• Ownership of IT infrastructure deliverables for new building deployments, network room build-outs, cabling projects, and refresh initiatives.
• Client-facing technical authority for Facilities, architects, general contractors, and low-voltage subcontractors, including design review, specifications, scope and materials control, and contractor accountability to the standard.
• Design-stage partnership with Facilities, Network, AV, Security, and End User Support to establish project IT requirements.
• Construction document production, including specifications and installation standards for low-voltage cabling contractors.
• Network room equipment placement definition, covering rack elevations and positions for network gear, security and BAS panels, service wall fields, and pathway and containment routes.

Technical scope and quality expectations

• Review architectural, electrical, and low-voltage drawings against client standards, issuing formal design comments and tracking resolution.
• Specify requirements for pathway, grounding/bonding, fire-stopping, labelling, and testing, aligned to TIA/BICSI standards and local code.
• Develop ROM and BOM for builds and refreshes and drive procurement of long-lead materials against milestones.
• Oversee low-voltage contractors to ensure installations match design specifications and quality standards.
• Issue Statements of Work and working instructions; review and validate submittals, RFIs, and change orders.
• Conduct regular construction walk-throughs and provide written site reports covering client feedback, defects, and corrective actions.
• Manage punch-list closure and acceptance testing, including review of fiber and copper certification results prior to sign-off.
• Compile and record closeout documentation for operations and end users: as-built drawings, test results, warranty certificates, and labelling schedules.
• Ensure newly delivered infrastructure is loaded into Netbox/Nautobot and the CMDB before project closure.
• Run formal handover walkthroughs so operations inherit a documented, supportable environment.
• Capture lessons learned and feed improvements back into client design standards and vendor specifications.
• Maintain a forward view of network room capacity (ports, fiber strand counts, PDU outlets, rack units, and power headroom) and flag constraints ahead of demand.
• Plan and scope lifecycle refresh initiatives for cable plant, racks, and power infrastructure.
• Support regional power shutdown planning from an infrastructure design and risk perspective.

Required experience and credentials

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in low-voltage design, telecommunications consulting, IT construction project management, or structured cabling program delivery.
• RCDD certification (or actively pursuing). This credential is core to the design and specification scope.

Skills to bring to the role

• Working command of TIA-568/569/606/607, BICSI TDMM practice, NEC low-voltage provisions, and applicable local building and fire code.
• Ability to read and markup architectural, electrical, and telecom drawings; proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit, or Bluebeam for review and redline.
• Proven experience directing low-voltage subcontractors and general contractors, including SOW authoring, submittal review, and change-order control.
• Deep understanding of network room infrastructure: racks, containment, grounding, power distribution, cooling, and fiber/copper plant design.
• Strong written communication for specifications, site reports, and closeout packages.
• Comfort operating with minimal direction in ambiguous, fast-moving construction environments.

Service measures

• Projects delivered on schedule and to design specification, with defects closed before handover.
• Design reviews completed within agreed turnaround at each project gate.
• BOM/ROM accuracy against final installed quantities.
• Complete closeout documentation and CMDB records at every project completion.

Technologies: TIA-568, TIA-569, TIA-606, TIA-607, BICSI TDMM, NEC, AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, Netbox, Nautobot, CMDB