This Lead Structured Cabling Engineer position is full-time and on-site, based in Salt Lake Sector V, Kolkata, with a salary up to ₹1,49,500 per month.
It's pitched at the senior end of the structured cabling field, one of the structured cabling engineer jobs for experienced professionals in Kolkata rather than a first job in the trade. Whoever fills it will run the cabling side of a project rather than just installing runs on someone else's plan, working across new office fit-outs, data closet upgrades, and the occasional emergency repair when a run gets damaged during unrelated construction work.
What the work involves
The scope runs from planning through final handover, not just the physical pulling of cable.
- Turn project requirements into an actual cable layout, deciding pathways, panel locations, and drop points for a site before installation starts
- Oversee the installation crew and check their work against standard cabling practice as it goes in, not just after the fact
- Troubleshoot connectivity or performance problems traced back to a bad termination, a mislabeled run, or a certification failure
- Keep records of every cable run, patch panel layout, and completed job for facilities and IT teams to reference later
- Sign off on finished work through a final quality check before a site is handed over as live
That sign-off step matters more than it sounds. A site that passes a rushed inspection tends to surface its problems months later, usually during a move or an expansion, when nobody wants to trace a bad connection through a false ceiling. Catching that kind of issue before handover is a big part of what separates a lead role from an installer role on paper.
Education and experience
The role calls for a bachelor's degree at minimum, most often in electronics, electrical, or telecommunications engineering. Candidates should bring 12 years of hands-on experience in structured cabling, with a good chunk of that time spent leading or supervising a crew rather than just pulling cable individually. That leadership piece matters as much as the technical background does, since a lead who can't keep a crew of six on schedule during a tight installation window ends up doing everyone's job at once by the third day.
Skills
- Solid working knowledge of structured cabling standards such as TIA/EIA-568
- Hands-on network cabling experience across copper and fiber runs
- Direct installation experience, not just design or oversight from a distance
These three carry the most weight in a resume screen, mostly because plenty of candidates can speak to one or two of them, but fewer have real depth across all three at once.
Good to have
A BICSI certification, such as RCDD, carries real weight for this role, and so does experience with cable testing and certification equipment, such as a Fluke tester. Familiarity with fire-rating requirements and code compliance for cable pathways is useful too, since those rules vary enough between buildings that assuming the last site's setup applies here can cause real problems. Some exposure to data center cabling, specifically where density and airflow constraints change how a layout is planned, is a plus but isn't something most candidates will have from general office or campus work.
Where you'd be working
The role is based in Salt Lake Sector V, Kolkata, in a part of the city with a dense mix of IT parks and office campuses. Naukri Mitra tends to see a fairly steady flow of structured cabling engineer jobs in Salt Lake Sector V, Kolkata specifically, since new office fit-outs in that area keep generating fresh cabling work throughout the year. Sector V's layout also means a lot of the client sites are within a short drive of one another, so a single week can sometimes involve visits to two or three different buildings rather than staying put at one location.
Pay and benefits
Pay for this role goes up to ₹1,49,500 per month, which is close to the top end of what a structured cabling engineer salary in Kolkata typically looks like at the lead level. The package includes health insurance, paid time off, and performance-linked bonuses tied to project outcomes rather than a flat yearly figure.
Since the job is on-site, employees also get access to on-site cafeteria facilities along with cab or commute support, which matters given that project sites aren't always within easy reach of public transport. Between the base pay and the bonus structure, total earnings can move noticeably from one project cycle to the next depending on how a given site's timeline and quality checks turn out.
Team and pace
Work here runs in bursts tied to project timelines. A new office fit-out might mean two or three weeks of long days installing cabling before a client's move-in date, followed by a quieter stretch handling smaller service requests and minor repairs across existing sites. Weekend work does come up occasionally, mostly when a cabling job needs to be done after hours in a building that's still operating during the week.
As the lead on a job, a fair amount of the role also involves fielding questions from client-side facilities staff who want a plain answer about timelines and disruption, not a technical explanation of pathway routing. Handling that side of the job well, without making a client feel like their questions are an interruption, tends to matter as much for repeat business as the quality of the cabling itself.
Applying
Candidates should be ready to talk through a past project where something in the original cable plan had to change mid-installation, and how that got resolved without blowing the timeline. A resume alone won't say much about that kind of judgment call, so bring specifics rather than a general list of past employers. It also helps to mention the largest crew size managed on a single job and roughly how many drops or endpoints a typical project under that supervision involved. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates are contacted directly for the next step.
