QA/QC Program Engineer III

Lease Connectivity Engineer (Contingent Worker)

Meta is seeking a Connectivity Engineer to join the Design Engineering and Construction (DEC) team. This role is pivotal in supporting the physical infrastructure of Meta's global data centers, ensuring seamless connectivity for the delivery of Meta's innovative services. The Connectivity Engineer will manage the full project lifecycle, from initiation to production turnover, ensuring projects are executed on schedule, within budget, and meet quality standards.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Project Planning & Control: Develop and maintain project scope, schedules, and milestones. Collaborate with site construction management teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Learnings & Best Practices: Review ongoing projects for efficiencies and document data points to assist with field coordination. Support the development of project management best practices and coordinate SOPs/SIPs with vendors.
Forecasting & Budgeting: Assist the project controls team with forecasting and budget efforts. Ensure clear communication of project status with all stakeholders.
Technical Reviews & Vendor Management: Establish milestones for equipment purchase and track progress. Manage vendor field activities and ensure compliance with DEC quality standards.
Quality Assurance & Technical Leadership: Perform inspections to ensure vendor work meets quality standards. Lead product evaluation, design, and installation methods in the field.
Cross-functional Coordination: Liaise with construction partners and coordinate with logistics partners to ensure smooth material flow. Communicate progress and risks to key stakeholders.
Safety & Compliance: Ensure adherence to safety obligations and lead a 'safety first' culture.
Travel: Position requires a minimum of 50% travel.

Site Responsibilities:
Quality Assurance: Perform physical inspections to ensure vendor work meets DEC quality standards throughout the lifecycle of the data center. Validate physical installs, test reports, build accuracy, material and local code compliance including constructability reviews on multiple design phases.
Technical Field Lead: Technical lead for industry and Meta standards, responsible to lead product evaluation, design, and installation methods in the field including scope clarification, design and installation details as the owner of the Request for Information process.
Vendor Field Management: Responsible for all connectivity activities (OSP/ISP) within construction, projects on site including tracking and reporting actual progress related to schedule expectations. Set and communicate clear expectations together with the immediate site team, build key relationships with our installation partners and drive a culture of best practice, safe working environment and execute to a vision of ‘right first time.’
Site Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments of existing sites to identify areas for improvement.
Modification Planning: Develop plans and proposals for modifications, including cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment.
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders, including site managers, vendors, and contractors, to ensure alignment and support for modifications.
Implementation: Oversee the implementation of modifications, ensuring timely completion and minimal disruption to operations.
Post-Modification Review: Conduct reviews of modifications to assess effectiveness and identify areas for further improvement.

Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in project management.
5+ years of experience in data center telecommunications and networking.
Experience engaging and guiding stakeholders and providing solutions to construction-related problems.
Proficiency in Google Docs, MS Office and MS Project.
Experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in data center development or construction management.
Experience with Primavera 6 and managing IT or IP Network deployment projects.
Experience with fiber optic testing and outside plant cabling deployments.
Comments for Suppliers:
Needs to be able to travel as needed.
Experience supporting multiple projects simultaneously ranging from 600k to $100M.
Past experience working in leased facilities is preferred but not mandatory.
50% Travel to sites across North America as needed.

This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to Meta.

The pay range that Tundra in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $75/hour - $85/hour.

Tundra’s benefits offering includes optional medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, up to 15 Days PTO per annum and a New Child Benefit.

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

The Meta CWX Program is enabled by a cutting-edge software platform called TalentNet that leads the contingent labor world for technology innovation. The software platform leverages Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to make sure the right people end up in the right job.

At Meta, we are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to connect people all over the world. That’s why it’s important that our workforce reflects the diversity of the people we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and points of view helps us make better decisions, build better products, and create better experiences for everyone.

We give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our products empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas, offer support, and make a difference.

This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to Meta. Please note that this is not a full-time employment opportunity. Candidates selected for this role will be engaged as contractors for the specified duration of the project. For any inquiries regarding the terms of the contract or engagement, please contact Tundra Technical Solutions directly.