Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of on-site projects including deployments, retrofits, upgrades, expansions, equipment refreshes, and decommissions.
- Plan and manage scope, schedule, budget, and vendors for each site project, keeping work on track within live-operations constraints.
- Partner with operations and facilities teams to sequence work around uptime, maintenance windows, and change-control requirements.
- Manage and hold accountable contractors, vendors, and service providers on site across the full project lifecycle.
- Own project risk: identify issues early, drive mitigations, and make on-the-ground decisions.
- Coordinate with engineering and SMEs to validate scope and execution for technical site projects.
- Maintain project artifacts: schedules, budgets, risk and issue logs, change records, and as-built/closeout documentation.
- Provide clear status, risk, and milestone reporting to site leadership and program stakeholders.
- Drive site-level process improvements, runbooks, and standards that make recurring projects faster and safer.
Basic Qualifications
- 3–5 years deploying and managing infrastructure, construction, facilities, or data center projects end to end.
- Able to be on site at a data center full time.
- Demonstrated ownership of project scope, schedule, budget, and vendors with minimal oversight.
- Working understanding of data center or critical-facilities environments and how to execute projects without disrupting live operations.
- Experience managing contractors and vendors on active sites.
- Strong organization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Comfortable making decisions and owning outcomes in a fast-moving environment.
- Proficiency with project tracking and scheduling tools (Smartsheet, Jira, MS Project, or similar).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with new deployments, retrofits, upgrades, or capital projects in live data centers or critical facilities.
- Familiarity with commissioning, MEP, power and cooling, or structured cabling.
- Background bridging construction/deployment handover into operations.
- Experience having delivered a data center deployment or build.
- PMP or CAPM, DCD, CDCP, BICSI, ITIL Foundation.
- Lean or Six Sigma, or SOP / process-development experience.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $220,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.