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Overview

The Lead Datacenter Cable Technician position involves leading a crew in the installation and testing of cabling systems, specifically fiber optics, while ensuring adherence to safety and quality guidelines. This is a contract to hire role based out of Atlanta, GA, with travel provided for projects.

Responsibilities

  • Lead major project crews and provide necessary training.
  • Ensure adherence to safety and quality guidelines by holding 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 coordinate moves and cut sheets for voice and data cross connects.
  • Serve as the main on-site customer contact for questions and concerns.
  • Demonstrate technical knowledge and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
  • Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

  • Proven success leading a crew of 5.
  • Experience in fiber handling, termination, and testing.
  • Skills in cable installation, testing, and splicing.
  • Familiarity with cable pulling, punchdown, Cat6, and Cat5 is a plus.

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 $26–$40/hr across 42 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 43% 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 102 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 72 different employers. 43 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 365 other active welding openings from 206 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 (14), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), and JCB North America (8). 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 Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $31/hr, and Marietta at $30/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.