Technical Project Manager - Building Systems Network Infrastructure

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Description Summary:
The Technical Project Manager - Building Systems Network Infrastructure coordinates the design assurance, detailed planning, and construction coordination of network and structured-cabling infrastructure supporting Building Management Systems (BMS), Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS), and physical security systems for new construction projects.

This role applies the established network Basis of Design (BOD) to each project. It reviews drawings, specifications, and schedules for compliance; records discrepancies through formal design-review markups; and develops the project-specific panel quantities, rack elevations, cable tables, switch allocations, and related details needed for construction. The position partners with controls, security, network engineering, design, construction, and site teams and regularly visits jobsites to assess readiness, identify risks, and help keep network-dependent work aligned with target completion dates.

Defining responsibility: The role goes beyond raw port counting. It evaluates endpoint relationships, physical adjacency, coverage overlap, equipment redundancy, and common-mode failure exposure so that operationally related devices are appropriately distributed across network switch failure domains.
Essential Duties:

Systems and Network Requirements

• Coordinate with BMS, EPMS, security, MEP, network engineering, and construction teams to gather device, connectivity, bandwidth, availability, and schedule requirements.

• Reconcile device and equipment schedules across controls, security, telecommunications, and network design documents and identify missing, inconsistent, or unresolved requirements.

• Translate device and equipment schedules into switch-port counts, switch quantities, endpoint assignments, patch-panel quantities, fiber terminations, uplink requirements, optics, rack space, cable management, and supporting infrastructure requirements.

• Identify capacity, pathway, equipment-room, or schedule constraints early enough for the responsible design or construction team to resolve them.

Basis of Design Review and Design Assurance

• Review project drawings, specifications, riser diagrams, floor plans, schedules, and details for compliance with the established network BOD.

• Verify that BOD requirements for copper cabling, fiber infrastructure, patch panels, termination hardware, labeling, testing, rack layouts, spare capacity, and pathway diversity are represented consistently in the project documents.

• Provide clear, traceable drawing markups at established design milestones when BOD requirements are missing, incorrect, ambiguous, or inconsistent across disciplines.

• Coordinate design-review comments with the controls, security, network, telecommunications, MEP, and design teams through resolution.

• Review subsequent drawing revisions to confirm that accepted comments were incorporated and identify any new conflicts created by design changes.

Endpoint Resiliency and Failure-Domain Analysis

• Analyze BMS, EPMS, and security endpoint relationships and translate system-level resiliency requirements into failure-domain-aware switch assignments.

• Work with controls and security designers to identify endpoint adjacency, camera coverage overlap, equipment redundancy groups, and other common-mode failure risks.

• Develop endpoint allocation rules that prevent a single switch failure from simultaneously affecting adjacent, redundant, or operationally dependent devices.

• Apply project-specific rules, such as separating cameras with overlapping fields of view or ensuring that no three adjacent fan wall units share the same switch failure domain.

• Separate endpoints supporting redundant equipment trains or A-side/B-side systems when common switch loss would compromise the intended facility resiliency model.

• Validate endpoint-to-switch assignments throughout design development and reassess allocations when device counts, floor plans, equipment layouts, or switch locations change.

• Document noncompliant conditions and coordinate review and approval of exceptions when physical or construction constraints prevent compliance with established allocation rules.

Project-Specific Infrastructure Planning

• Determine the number and size of copper patch panels required at each MDF and IDF based on endpoint counts, switch assignments, spare capacity, resiliency requirements, maintainability, and future growth.

• Determine project-specific fiber termination-panel quantities, rack-space requirements, and termination relationships using the cable types, panel manufacturers, and other standards established by the BOD.

• Produce rack elevations showing rack identifiers, rack-unit positions, copper patch panels, fiber termination panels, cable management, reserved locations for owner-furnished switches, and required growth space.

• Develop cable tables and endpoint-to-panel-to-switch allocation schedules with source and destination locations, cable types, panel and port assignments, switch assignments, failure-domain groups, and relevant drawing references.

• Create and maintain endpoint resiliency matrices, panel schedules, port schedules, connectivity diagrams, equipment lists, design decision logs, and approved exception records.

• Support requests for information (RFIs) and evaluate proposed design or field changes for capacity, resiliency, cabling, schedule, and operational impacts.

• Coordinate design decisions with the appropriate network architecture or engineering authority and maintain a record of assumptions, decisions, and approved exceptions.

Project and Field Coordination

• Track network-related milestones, dependencies, action items, risks, and decisions across assigned new-build projects.

• Participate in construction coordination meetings and communicate status, upcoming dependencies, and issues that could affect controls, security, commissioning, or turnover dates.

• Review applicable contractor submittals and shop drawings for consistency with the BOD, approved project drawings, rack elevations, panel quantities, cable tables, and pathway-diversity requirements.

• Conduct regular jobsite visits to assess equipment-room readiness, rack installation, patch-panel and fiber-panel placement, pathways, cable installation, labeling, and testing progress.

• Compare approved design intent with field conditions, document discrepancies, and coordinate corrective actions with the responsible team.

• Coordinate network-infrastructure readiness for controls and security testing and commissioning.

• Maintain punch-list items and verify receipt of cable-test results, redlines, as-built documentation, final panel schedules, and endpoint-to-port records.

Education/Training/Experience:

• Five or more years of relevant experience in network infrastructure, structured cabling, low-voltage systems, controls, physical security, construction coordination, or technical project delivery.

• Working knowledge of Ethernet switching, copper and fiber cabling, optics, VLAN concepts, equipment-room design, network failure domains, and spare-capacity planning.

• Demonstrated ability to apply a Basis of Design and translate equipment or device schedules into network, cabling, panel, rack-layout, and switch-allocation requirements.

• Ability to interpret and mark up construction drawings, specifications, floor plans, riser diagrams, device schedules, submittals, and cable-test reports.

• Experience producing structured technical documentation such as drawing markups, cable matrices, panel schedules, rack elevations, port schedules, equipment lists, decision logs, and project trackers.

• Strong written, verbal, and cross-functional coordination skills, including the ability to communicate technical risks to engineering and construction audiences.

• Experience supporting data centers, critical facilities, industrial environments, or other high-availability infrastructure.

• Direct exposure to BMS, EPMS, CCTV, access control, or industrial controls deployments.

• Experience evaluating adjacency, coverage, equipment grouping, or other failure-domain constraints when assigning endpoints to network infrastructure.

• Familiarity with construction administration practices, including submittals, RFIs, change impacts, punch lists, commissioning, and turnover documentation.

• Relevant credentials such as BICSI RCDD or RTPM, PMP, CCNA, Network+, or controls/security certifications.

• Ability to travel regularly within the United States and work safely in active construction environments.