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Overview

The Lead Datacenter Cable Technician position involves leading a crew in cable installation and testing, ensuring adherence to safety and quality guidelines. This Contract to Hire role is based in Dallas, TX, and includes travel with provided accommodations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead major project crews and provide necessary training.
  • Ensure adherence to safety and quality guidelines.
  • Coordinate with Project Manager to ensure productivity and compliance with 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 installation and splicing.
  • Familiarity with cable pulling, punchdown, Cat6, and Cat5.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This is a fully onsite position in Dallas, TX.
  • Flights, hotel, and rental car provided.
  • $68/day Per Diem for food.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, where the middle half runs $29–$39/hr across 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Dallas, TX

We're tracking 125 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 74 different employers. 42 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 549 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

TEKsystems currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (39), Zachry Group (30), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (22). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $36/hr. Dallas is among them.

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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.