Project Manager - Datacenters

Key Responsibilities

• Own full project execution across scope, schedule, budget, and contract, ensuring successful delivery through all lifecycle phases (design → FAT → SAT → commissioning → final acceptance)
• Serve as the accountable project leader, making decisions on schedule, scope, commercial outcomes, and acceptance readiness, while engineering teams own technical integrity
• Lead complex, mission-critical projects in live electrical environments, drive decisions, and ensure outcomes
• Act as the primary client interface for hyperscale/colocation owners, commissioning agents (CxA), general contractors, and utility stakeholders
• Lead project reviews, coordinate witness testing, and manage escalations to resolution
• Drive technically credible conversations, tracking commissioning progress through integrated systems testing and identifying true risks vs. noise
• Manage financial performance, including payment milestones, invoicing alignment, and cash flow tracking against contractual deliverables
• Lead risk and change management, proactively identifying technical, schedule, and contractual exposures — particularly during commissioning, energization, and acceptance phases
• Cook up cross-functional teams (engineering, controls, software, and client stakeholders) to ensure alignment with contractual and technical requirements
• Oversee project acceptance and handover, ensuring all deliverables are complete, documented, and approved prior to transition into support
• Own project reporting, including schedules, milestone tracking, financial performance, and executive-level updates
• Contribute to building scalable delivery practices, including standards, templates, and playbooks for consistent execution across multiple data center sites

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience delivering engineering, power systems, automation, or industrial software projects
• Strong technical fluency in power systems or industrial automation, with the ability to engage in discussions on commissioning, controls, protection, and SCADA/EPMS systems
• Proven experience managing contract-driven projects with milestone-based payments and defined acceptance criteria
• Deep understanding of project lifecycle phases in field-delivered environments (design → FAT → SAT → commissioning → acceptance)
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead client reviews, witness testing, and escalations
• Demonstrated ability to manage both client relationships and cross-functional technical teams
• Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes, not just reporting
• Willingness to travel to project sites across the U.S. during active project phases

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or microgrid/power management projects
• Familiarity with commissioning processes (L1–L5, integrated systems testing) in critical environments
• Exposure to utility interconnection processes and witness testing
• Experience working with hyperscale clients (e.g., AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta) or similar standards
• Background in power systems, SCADA, EPMS, ADMS, or automation delivery
• Experience with project tracking and reporting tools such as JIRA or Power BI
• PMP or equivalent certification
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or readiness to grow into a program/portfolio leadership role