Sr. Project Engineer - PR

Reports to: Construction Manager / Sr. Construction Manager (by assigned scope). Requires 4+ years of experience.

About the role

The Sr. Project Engineer is an owner/operator team member who owns the coordination, readiness, and follow-through for assigned scopes across Fleet’s data center projects. This role actively drives closure across multiple parties, frames issues with recommended next steps, and keeps the owner team’s visibility decision-ready. The Sr. Project Engineer bridges project controls and construction management, serving as a force multiplier for Construction Managers by reducing leadership blind spots, anticipating readiness and coordination risks, and mentoring Project Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Coordination & Readiness Ownership
  • Independently own coordination, readiness, and action closure for meaningful scopes or workstreams, driving items to resolution across internal and external parties.
  • Maintain owner decision, clarification, and commitment tracking; identify stalled items and highlight business impact of unresolved issues.
  • Manage review workflows and status visibility to ensure timely and informed owner decisions; identify and clear bottlenecks.
  • Own recurring reporting for assigned responsibilities, presenting clear status, trends, and open risks to leadership.
• Risk, Procurement & Turnover
  • Anticipate coordination, turnover, and readiness risks before they impact the project, and bring them forward with context and recommended actions.
  • Maintain visibility into long-lead equipment status, delivery risk, and OFCI readiness for assigned scopes.
  • Independently manage readiness tracking for assigned scopes and surface gaps affecting commissioning, turnover, and operations.
• Stakeholder & Team Leadership
  • Manage coordination across multiple stakeholders, adapting communication to decision needs, and act as a trusted owner point of contact for assigned scopes.
  • Mentor Project Engineers and improve controls and coordination discipline across the team.
  • Improve reporting structure, tracker design, and coordination workflows for the broader project team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field, OR equivalent practical owner-side field/project experience.
• 4+ years of construction, project engineering, or project controls experience, including time representing an owner/operator or developer preferred.
• Proven ability to independently drive coordination and follow-through across multiple stakeholders on large-scale, fast-tracked projects.
• Strong judgment on escalation, prioritization, and issue framing.
• Advanced proficiency with Procore (or equivalent) and Microsoft Office Suite; familiarity with construction scheduling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on data center or mission-critical facilities.
• Experience mentoring junior team members or improving project controls processes.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset.
• Detail-oriented self-starter comfortable in a fast-paced, on-site environment.

About Fleet

Fleet Data Centers designs, builds, and operates mega-scale data center campuses. Fleet provides its customers flexibility and predictability to meet their upside demand forecasts, addressing a key need in the market as traditional leased models struggle to keep pace with demand for new Cloud and AI infrastructure. Fleet is led by a team of industry veterans who have already made a lasting imprint on the evolution of global digital infrastructure and are uniquely capable of upleveling data center development scale and operations in the face of rising demand.

Fleet brings in-house design, engineering, and operational capabilities to collaborate with customers on tailored solutions for campuses of 500MW+, enabling the world’s largest and most sophisticated customers a seamless extension of their own data center fleets with constant access to design innovation. Fleet is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with satellite offices in Seattle, WA and Arlington, VA. These positions are located in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center north of Sparks, NV and require the candidate to be on-site five days per week, located within a commutable distance to the project site.

Pay

Expected salary range: $112,000 - $140,000 plus discretionary bonus.

Benefits

• 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K program.
• Standard paid holidays.
• Unlimited PTO.