Senior Project Manager - Chiller

About the role

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA) is seeking a Senior Project Manager - Chillers to join their team. This role is hybrid and based in Plano, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end execution of centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects in North America, from order intake through final handover.
• Serve as the primary project interface with customers, consultants, general contractors, EPC contractors, MEP contractors, and internal teams.
• Lead regular project meetings, report project status, escalate critical issues, and drive timely decision-making.
• Define and manage project scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, interfaces, and responsibility boundaries (including responsibility split among Customer/EOR/GC/MEP and suppliers).
• Ensure customer satisfaction, schedule adherence, quality performance, and successful handover to service and aftermarket teams.
• Maintain and drive project governance: execution plan, schedule, action items, risk register, issue log, change log, communication plan, and decision log.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables, including GA drawings, P&IDs, electrical drawings, control narratives, sequence of operations, submittals, and technical documentation.
• Manage customer submittal, review, comment resolution, approval, and resubmission processes.
• Coordinate with manufacturing, procurement, engineering, quality, logistics, installation, commissioning, service, and aftermarket teams.
• Track equipment production schedules, factory milestones, FAT readiness, shipping readiness, and delivery commitments.
• Cook up site delivery planning, including delivery windows, receiving requirements, unloading plans, laydown/storage needs, and site acceptance conditions.
• Support installation readiness, including site readiness checks, foundation readiness, and utility interface readiness (power, water, refrigerant, drainage, communications).
• Confirm foundation readiness (dimensions, levelness, load rating, anchor locations, grout plan) and utility interface readiness (connection points and readiness for electrical/mechanical/refrigerant/drain/controls).
• Coordinate turnover to commissioning by ensuring installation completion criteria, punch items, documentation readiness, and interface closures are met.
• Identify, document, communicate, and mitigate project risks related to scope, schedule, cost, quality, compliance, logistics, installation, and commissioning.
• Coordinate permit / local permitting (building, electrical, mechanical, fire, environmental) and maintain a permit/inspection readiness plan with responsible stakeholders.
• Coordinate inspections (electrical, mechanical, fire, and final) and drive AHJ approval/acceptance in collaboration with Customer/EOR/GC and contractors.
• Drive regulatory approval and compliance clearance with Customer, EOR, GC, AHJ, and NRTL stakeholders, ensuring requirements are understood, assigned, and closed.
• Cook up construction/site safety requirements, including OSHA, JHA/JSA, LOTO (electrical/pressure/fuel/refrigerant isolation), and permit-to-work controls (energization, lifting/rigging, hot work, etc.).
• Cook up refrigerant compliance requirements, including EPA Section 608 considerations (recovery, leak management, service qualifications, records), as applicable to delivery and turnover.
• Cook up UL/ETL/CSA/NRTL labeling and manage exceptions requiring field evaluation/field labeling for non-listed, imported, or field-modified equipment; escalate gaps and drive closure with manufacturer/EOR/AHJ/NRTL.
• Cook up environmental compliance requirements, including refrigerants, stormwater/wastewater (construction discharge, blowdown, chemicals, oil-water separation), noise ordinance requirements (boundary/nighttime noise, silencers/acoustics), and SPCC / oil containment (lubricants/fuels and secondary containment).
• Cook up water treatment requirements for cooling systems (chemicals, glycol, corrosion control, Legionella risk management) and align responsibility split across customer/EOR/GC and vendors.
• Cook up FM Global/insurance requirements where applicable (fire protection, separation distances, containment provisions) and integrate them into execution and turnover packages.
• Cook up FAT requirements (factory acceptance tests) and SAT requirements (site acceptance tests), including witness points, acceptance criteria, and test record control.
• Support commissioning and startup activities by coordinating commissioning requirements, documentation, punch list closure, customer readiness, third-party commissioning agents (CxA), and service teams.
• Maintain complete project documentation, including contracts, specifications, drawings, submittals, meeting minutes, issue logs, change logs, schedules, inspection records, FAT/SAT records, commissioning documentation, and turnover/closeout packages (O&M manuals, as-builts, test records, punch list, warranty handover).

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s in mechanical or electrical engineering, project management, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: Minimum of nine (9) years of experience with at least four (4) years of experience in centrifugal chillers and modular cooling plants.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, change orders, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to read and interpret customer specifications, contracts, GA drawings, P&IDs, electrical drawings, control narratives, sequence of operations, submittals, technical specifications, and installation manuals.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating permit, inspection, AHJ approval/acceptance, regulatory approval, compliance clearance, OSHA, JHA/JSA, LOTO, permit-to-work, and construction safety processes with responsible stakeholders to support safe and compliant site delivery, installation, commissioning, and turnover.
• Working knowledge of chillers, modular cooling plants, mechanical systems, electrical systems, controls, NFPA 70 / NEC, fire code requirements, mechanical code requirements, and local permitting processes.

Pay

Competitive compensation package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K matching.

Schedule

Standard Monday through Friday work week. Weekend/late night work if applicable.