Project Manager

About the role

This role requires relocation or heavy travel to the client site. Majority of sites are in TX, MO and AZ. Who You’ll Work With: Design Group (DG) is a leading engineering and technology firm operating at the intersection of digital infrastructure and industrial solutions. As the data center market experiences unprecedented growth, we are expanding our team to support the long-term deployment of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure across key regional clusters. As an Automation and Control System Commissioning Manager (Commissioning Manager) for BMS and EPMS control systems, you will play a critical leadership role onsite, helping drive the consistent rollout of standardized systems across complex, fast-paced environments. You’ll lead the coordination across the BMS/EPMS design, integration, and field execution teams, ensuring that deployments stay aligned with program objectives, timelines, and quality standards. You will be joining an established operational effort supporting some of the largest and most advanced data center clusters in the world. Your ability to lead through complexity, maintain operational discipline, and contribute to a high-functioning deployment process will be essential to the success of the overall program.

Responsibilities

• Provides oversight and management of all activities related to DG scoped BMS/EPMS onsite checkout and commissioning execution.
• Has a solid understanding of overall DG BMS/EPMS scope and works with the Commissioning Lead to manage all DG onsite commissioning personnel and associated workflow.
• Provides overall leadership for onsite controls commissioning activities and works with commissioning leads to establish technical direction, execution priorities, staffing plans, and issue resolution strategies.
• Monitors construction and commissioning status and serves as the main point of contact to the general contractor and client to communicate status of DG activities and deliverables.
• Works closely with the DG project management, the DG design team, and onsite site/logistics management to communicate status, manage issue resolution and change management, and manage team schedules and resource requirements.
• Serve as onsite main point of contact for the overall DG BMS/EPMS site commissioning activities with the client, general contractor, and installation trade management.
• Lead commissioning status reviews and executive-level discussions with clients, commissioning agents, and general contractors regarding schedule, risks, resource needs, and issue resolution.
• Represent DG at all site commissioning, site design reviews, change management, and commissioning scope meetings and reviews.
• Attend daily commissioning review meetings with client, GC, and commissioning agent.
• Attend internal DG project and review meetings.
• Provide overall management