Site Project Manager
Own end-to-end on-site project delivery at live data centers, managing retrofits, upgrades, expansions, vendors, budgets, and schedules with minimal disruption to operations. Requires 3-5 years of infrastructure or facilities project experience and full-time on-site availability.
About the job
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.
Skills
Project Management, Data Center Operations, Vendor Management, Risk Management, Smartsheet, Jira, Ms Project, Mep Systems, Commissioning, PMP, Lean Six Sigma
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