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Job Description

Overview

The Lead Datacenter Cable Technician position involves leading a crew in the installation and testing of cabling systems, specifically fiber optics. This is a traveling role based out of Atlanta, GA, with a focus on project management and adherence to safety and quality guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead major project crews and provide necessary training.
  • Ensure adherence to safety and quality guidelines and hold weekly safety meetings.
  • Coordinate with Project Manager to ensure productivity and compliance with project budget.
  • Complete all internal and project paperwork accurately and on time.
  • Perform quality checks and prepare red-lined as-built drawings.
  • Serve as the main on-site customer contact for questions and concerns.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.
  • Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

  • Proven success leading a crew of 5.
  • Experience with fiber handling, termination, and testing.
  • Skills in cable pulling, punchdown, and working with Cat6 and Cat5.
  • Strong technical knowledge in cabling installation and testing.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a fully onsite position in Atlanta, GA.
  • Flights, hotel, and rental car provided.
  • $50/day Per Diem for food.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Atlanta, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA, whose middle half runs $25–$41/hr across 37 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 92 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 67 different employers. 38 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 361 other active welding openings from 211 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (12), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (9), and JCB North America (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marietta at $42/hr, Forest Park at $36/hr, and Atlanta at $31/hr. Atlanta is among them.

Similar openings near Atlanta, GA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Lead Datacenter Cable Technician - Traveling figures were last recalculated when this page was built.