Director Facilities Construction & Operations

About Lightpath

Lightpath is building the fiber infrastructure the digital economy depends on - owning, operating, and expanding dense, high-performance networks for enterprises, public institutions, carriers, and cloud innovators. Our all-fiber network supports mission-critical environments, from financial markets and healthcare systems to AI platforms and next-generation cloud architectures. As we expand across the Northeast and into high-growth markets nationwide, we invest ahead of demand - building infrastructure with precision, resilience, and accountability.

To support that growth, we're building a team of people who take ownership, think long-term, and take pride in tackling complex work with care and integrity. At Lightpath, every role contributes to infrastructure that powers critical systems and real-world outcomes. We look for individuals who value precision, accountability, and collaboration and who want to help build networks, processes, and partnerships that are engineered to last.

Job Summary

Lightpath Fiber is seeking a Director of Facility Construction and Operations to develop and oversee our Lightpath and external vendor long haul colocation facilities. Responsibilities include the management of each facility from an engineering, construction and infrastructure build out prospective and all affiliated maintenance, infrastructure upgrade, housekeeping, customer support prospective.

We're looking for a highly skilled, enthusiastic colocation construction and Operations Director to help us organize the engineering and construction of several ILA colocation facilities across the country. These facilities consist of the purchasing or leasing of land throughout the country along fiber long haul routes that may require the rezoning of land for Lightpath to build on the locations. These facilities can consist of 8,000 sq ft stand-alone building to prefabricated ILA huts that require power and cooling for Lightpath and customer electronic equipment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of all facility engineering, construction and infrastructure buildout, including setting up maintenance contracts with vendors to perform quarterly, semiannual and annual maintenance on the critical infrastructure once complete.
• Work with Architectural/Engineering firms to design such facilities across the country.
• Work with construction firms to solicit proposals for the construction of such facilities and make awards to build these sites and meet schedules.
• Attend any municipality, county, city zoning meetings with consultants to present and gain any approval required.
• Build a team of engineers and project managers to cover the day-to-day work throughout the country
• Plan and maintain preventative schedules.
• Emergency response procedures in case of power outages/failure.
• Maintain compliance and safety, environmental and regulatory standards that would apply.
• Manage facility infrastructure upgrades, projects within a facility from a construction vendor prospective.
• Oversee all aspects of external colocation spaces from a quarterly review with colocation vendors to understand uptime performance, maintenance records for critical infrastructure, Lightpath fiber capacity.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on maintaining and upgrading systems.
• Provide planning and leadership for all collocation network growth and augmentation activities within an Lightpath facility as well as external vendor facilities.
• Continually innovate to improve facility, network cost, efficiency, resiliency and reliability
• Provide support to install and activation teams on fiber connectivity related questions, design and architecture.
• Help support customer installs with an Lightpath collocation facility.
• Act as escalation point for anything collocation related.
• Interface with customers or potential customers, as needed.
• Interface with vendors and suppliers, as needed.
• Be available for after hours, nights, weekends and holidays in case of a facility outage or issue.

Experience/Qualifications

• 10 to 15 + years' work experience in collocation facility engineering, construction and operations, maintenance, planning, and or infrastructure deployment.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Excellent technical trainer and mentor.
• Familiar with collocation inventory systems, BMS systems, biometric access, video surveillance systems, electrical and cooling infrastructure systems, OSP networks, cross connect understanding.
• Highly organized and communicative with colleagues and leaders.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage time effectively.

Lightpath is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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This position is identified as being performed in/or reporting to company operations in Colorado. The pay range at the time of posting in the specified locations is $160,000 - $180,000/year. Pay ranges are supplied in compliance with Colorado law. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. Some of our featured benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, yearly bonus program and company matched 401k.