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E2 Optics

Low voltage IT solutions provider

Hyperscale Field Supervisor

Full-TimeDeadline 8/26/27
No salary listed
Mid
Associate's
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
In Person
Architecture & Civil EngineeringConstruction Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • A minimum of 3–5 years of experience in structured cabling, telecommunications, mission critical, data center, or related construction environments is required.
  • Demonstrated experience leading multiple crews or workfronts in a fast-paced construction environment is required.
  • Demonstrated experience planning work, tracking production, managing manpower, and coordinating materials is required.
  • Experience reading and executing against construction schedules and look-ahead plans is required.
  • A strong understanding of hyperscale data center construction and structured cabling systems is required.
  • A strong understanding of field production, manpower loading, sequencing, and workfront planning is required.
  • The ability to direct multiple Lead Technicians and crews simultaneously is required.
  • The ability to translate schedule activities into executable daily and weekly work plans is required.
  • Working knowledge of construction scheduling concepts, dependencies, milestones, and look-ahead planning is required.
  • The ability to assist with 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-week look-ahead development is required.
  • The ability to evaluate planned versus actual production and implement corrective action is required.
  • The ability to maintain accurate production trackers and field reporting is required.
  • A strong understanding of material planning, staging, logistics, and workfront readiness is required.
  • The ability to identify constraints early and drive resolution is required.
  • A strong understanding of drawings, specifications, customer requirements, and quality standards is required.
  • Strong field leadership presence and the ability to influence multiple crews through Lead Technicians are required.
  • The ability to make timely decisions in rapidly changing field conditions is required.
  • The ability to operate under significant schedule pressure while maintaining safety and quality standards is required.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, field production trackers, and applicable project reporting tools is required.
  • The ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with project leadership, customers, trade partners, and field personnel is required.
  • The employee must regularly lift or move up to 40 pounds and frequently lift or move up to 25 pounds.
  • The employee must regularly carry and climb ladders to 20 feet.
  • The employee must be able to operate scissor lifts, telehandlers, boom lifts, and UTVs if required.
  • The employee may be required to work in tight and confined spaces.
Responsibilities
  • Follow safe work practices and adhere to company and client worksite safety policies and procedures.
  • Lead and enforce E2 Optics, client, general contractor, and project-specific safety requirements across assigned workfronts.
  • Maintain a highly visible field presence and reinforce safe work practices through continuous observation and engagement.
  • Hold Lead Technicians accountable for safe execution within their assigned crews.
  • Verify that pre-task planning and hazard identification occur before work begins.
  • Address unsafe conditions, behaviors, or work practices immediately.
  • Coordinate with project safety personnel and the Superintendent to resolve significant safety concerns.
  • Promote a professional, accountable, inclusive, and high-performance field culture aligned with E2 Optics’ Core Values.
  • Direct the daily execution of approximately 3–5 Lead Technicians and their associated crews across assigned scopes, areas, buildings, floors, zones, or phases.
  • Maintain near-continuous presence in active work areas throughout the shift.
  • Ensure Lead Technicians understand the scope, priorities, sequence, production goals, and completion criteria for assigned work.
  • Translate Superintendent direction and schedule requirements into executable work packages for Lead Technicians.
  • Walk active workfronts to validate that crews are working on the correct priorities and executing according to plan.
  • Reallocate manpower, resources, or workfronts as conditions change to protect production and schedule commitments.
  • Coordinate interfaces between crews to prevent stacking, congestion, access conflicts, or inefficient sequencing.
  • Identify execution problems and resolve them at the field level whenever possible.
  • Escalate significant constraints to the Superintendent with facts, impacts, and recommended solutions.
  • Support hands-on field execution when necessary to understand conditions, demonstrate expectations, troubleshoot issues, or maintain production.
  • Own production performance across assigned Leads and workfronts.
  • Establish daily production expectations for each Lead in alignment with the Superintendent’s execution plan and project schedule.
  • Validate production targets based on available manpower, access, materials, work conditions, and scope.
  • Monitor planned versus actual production throughout the shift.
  • Implement corrective actions for crews or workfronts trending below plan.
  • Evaluate crew composition, leadership effectiveness, installation methods, sequencing, and workfront readiness when production goals are not achieved.
  • Coordinate recovery actions with Lead Technicians and the Superintendent.
  • Ensure production reporting reflects actual installed and completed quantities.
  • Drive consistent execution discipline across all assigned Leads.
  • Maintain accurate and timely production information for assigned scopes and workfronts.
  • Update field production trackers with actual completed quantities at established reporting intervals.
  • Validate Lead Technician actuals before incorporating them into project reporting.
  • Track planned quantities, actual quantities, daily production variance, manpower by crew or workfront, remaining quantities, constraints and blockers, material status, workfront readiness, and recovery actions.
  • Provide the Superintendent with reliable information for decision-making.
  • Identify productivity trends and communicate concerns before they become schedule impacts.
  • Support shift-to-shift reporting and handoffs when projects operate multiple shifts.
  • Partner with the Superintendent to translate the project schedule into executable field plans.
  • Provide field-level input into 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-week look-ahead planning.
  • Review upcoming schedule activities and validate workfront availability, predecessor completion, access requirements, material readiness, required manpower, skill sets, tools and equipment, lift requirements, testing requirements, quality prerequisites, and trade dependencies.
  • Identify discrepancies between the schedule and actual field conditions.
  • Communicate schedule constraints to the Superintendent early enough to allow corrective action.
  • Assist with sequencing activities to maintain productive workfronts for assigned crews.
  • Support development of daily and weekly production quantities needed to achieve scheduled milestones.
  • Participate in pull planning, coordination meetings, schedule reviews, and other planning activities when requested by the Superintendent.
  • Support recovery planning when actual progress deviates from scheduled performance.
  • Ensure Lead Technicians understand how daily production expectations connect to upcoming milestones and look-ahead commitments.
  • Evaluate manpower requirements across assigned workfronts based on scheduled scope and production expectations.
  • Provide the Superintendent with field-level manpower requirements and recommendations.
  • Evaluate labor distribution across active workfronts.
  • Rebalance crews to address changing priorities, constraints, production performance, or schedule requirements.
  • Identify skill gaps and communicate requirements for specialized or qualified personnel.
  • Support mobilization, reassignment, and demobilization planning.
  • Prevent excessive labor from being deployed into unavailable or constrained workfronts.
  • Ensure each Lead has an appropriately sized and skilled crew to execute the assigned scope.
  • Maintain forward visibility of material requirements across assigned workfronts.
  • Work with Lead Technicians to identify upcoming material needs before they become production constraints.
  • Coordinate with the Superintendent and logistics personnel regarding material availability, staging, delivery, and release priorities.
  • Validate that required materials are physically available before scheduled work begins.
  • Identify incorrect, damaged, missing, or delayed materials and drive resolution.
  • Coordinate staging strategies to support efficient crew execution without creating congestion or material-control issues.
  • Ensure tools, test equipment, lifts, consumables, and other required resources align with planned activities.
  • Maintain awareness of access restrictions and workfront readiness.
  • Maintain accountability for field quality across assigned Leads and crews.
  • Conduct field inspections and Gemba walks to verify compliance with approved drawings, specifications, E2 Optics Quality Management Plans, manufacturer requirements, and client hyperscale standards.
  • Ensure Lead Technicians perform first-level quality verification within their crews.
  • Identify recurring workmanship or installation issues and implement corrective actions.
  • Coordinate with Quality personnel to resolve findings and prevent recurrence.
  • Ensure deficiencies are corrected promptly and do not become embedded or repeated across multiple crews.
  • Support inspection readiness, commissioning, testing, punch-list closure, and turnover activities.
  • Minimize rework through proactive field supervision and disciplined execution.
  • Maintain awareness of conditions affecting current and upcoming production.
  • Manage material constraints, access limitations, trade dependencies, design or drawing questions, equipment availability, testing requirements, safety restrictions, quality holds, incomplete predecessor work, and customer or general contractor restrictions.
  • Resolve constraints at the Field Supervisor level whenever possible.
  • Escalate unresolved constraints to the Superintendent with expected impact and recommended action.
  • Document constraints in applicable trackers or planning tools.
  • Follow through on escalated constraints until resolution is confirmed.
  • Serve as the primary field communication link between Lead Technicians and the Superintendent.
  • Conduct routine coordination with Lead Technicians throughout the shift.
  • Provide the Superintendent with updates regarding production status, manpower, schedule performance, material readiness, constraints, quality, safety, recovery actions, and upcoming work.
  • Escalate issues before production or schedule impacts occur.
  • Coordinate with Quality, Safety, Logistics, Project Controls, Engineering, other trades, and customer or general contractor field representatives.
  • Participate in field coordination meetings and customer walks when directed.
  • Maintain professional communication and represent E2 Optics appropriately in field interactions.
  • Directly lead, coach, and develop assigned Lead Technicians.
  • Establish performance expectations and hold Leads accountable for safety, quality, production, reporting, and crew leadership.
  • Observe Lead performance in the field and provide real-time coaching.
  • Identify Lead Technicians capable of increased scope or future advancement.
  • Identify performance or capability gaps and communicate development needs to the Superintendent.
  • Support development of future Field Supervisors by expanding responsibilities of high-performing Leads.
  • Promote consistent leadership standards across assigned crews.
  • Support onboarding and integration of new field personnel into established crews and work processes.
Desired Qualifications
  • An associate’s or technical degree in Construction Management, Telecommunications, Network Infrastructure, or a related field is preferred.
  • Relevant industry and manufacturer training is strongly preferred.
  • Hyperscale or large data center experience is strongly preferred.
  • OSHA 30 certification is preferred.
  • BICSI Technician certification is preferred.
  • BICSI Installer 2 Copper and/or Fiber certification is preferred.
  • BICSI RTPM certification is preferred.
  • FOA CFOT or equivalent fiber certification is preferred.
  • First Aid/CPR certification is preferred.
  • MEWP/Aerial Lift Certification is preferred.
  • Manufacturer-specific certifications applicable to project scope are preferred.
  • Customer-specific technical qualifications as applicable are preferred.
  • Lean Construction/Last Planner System training is preferred.

About the company

E2 Optics provides low voltage IT infrastructure solutions, including data centers, structured cabling, audio-visual systems, electronic security, and wireless DAS. The company designs, installs, and maintains copper, coax, and fiber optic networks to ensure reliable, scalable connectivity for clients. A distinctive feature is the Speed to Market team, which develops tested tools and procedures to complete projects on time and within budget. E2 Optics emphasizes safety, diversity, equity, and inclusion through its Safely Home initiative. Its goal is to deliver efficient, secure, and scalable IT infrastructure tailored to each client, helping businesses run reliably and safely.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Englewood, Colorado

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

  • Headcount rose 60.3% from 2023 to 2026, showing sustained demand.
  • Active job postings jumped 50.8% in 2026, confirming pipeline expansion.
  • 2026 awards from WPO and Inc. improve recruiting and enterprise-sales credibility.

What critics are saying

  • The 2025 E2E acquisition carries earn-outs through December 2026, pressuring margins and cash.
  • A 2026 workforce of 1,265 and 148 postings signal heavy project dependency.
  • If data center spending slows, E2 Optics faces immediate revenue compression and hiring stagnation.

What makes E2 Optics unique

  • Woman-owned, low-voltage integrated IT provider with data center, cabling, AV, and DAS breadth.
  • Speed to Market standardizes delivery, helping E2 Optics finish complex installs faster.
  • 2026 awards and Inc. rankings reinforce brand credibility with enterprise buyers.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Professional Development Budget