Engineering Project Manager - Data Center

Engineering Project Manager - Data Center

At I.C. Thomasson, a Salas O'Brien Company, we tell our clients that we're engineered for impact. This passion for making a difference applies just as much to our team as it does to our projects. That's why we're committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future.

Building for the long-term means that all of our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career-and they'll receive great total rewards along the way.

Summary

The Engineering Project Manager - Data Center is a member of the technical staff and fills a pivotal role as a design team leader who effectively manages schedule, budget, and technical scope to reduce risk and manage dynamic and changing projects. The ideal candidate would be a detail-oriented professional who also has problem-solving project manager experience on large data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects, with a focus on delivering high-reliability, energy-efficient facilities under tight timelines. Experience in optimizing data center designs for sustainability metrics, such as Power & Water Usage Effectiveness (PUE/WUE) and understanding the variety of available energy sources, is highly desirable.

General Duties:

• Receive and review project requirements and obtain clarification on any conflicting, missing, or vague items.
• Plan project activities, costs, and schedules based on team inputs and client scopes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data center designs meet reliability standards, including redundancy in power, cooling, and IT systems to achieve constant uptime.
• Initiate newly awarded projects with team and client stakeholders and establish the performance baselines.
• Interface with clients, locations, and information that may be of sensitive or secure nature.
• Incorporate client requirements for project speed, such as fast-track construction and modular design approaches, to accelerate time-to-market for data center operations.
• Coordinates with the project coordinator to create meeting minutes.
• Manage internal cross discipline coordination.
• Ensure quality control meets company standards throughout the project.
• Control project scope when issues or changes surface and coordinate the changes with company management and clients.
• Closeout design projects ensuring all deliverables have been provided and project documentation is complete.
• Track lessons learned and communicate with management to support continuous improvements in company processes.

Skills:

• Proficient in managing projects with a focus on critical environment systems, including uninterruptible, redundant power systems, precision cooling, and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Knowledgeable in data center-specific standards and best practices, such as ASHRAE 90.4 for energy efficiency and Uptime Institute Tier certifications for operational reliability.
• Awareness of sustainable practices for energy efficiency and green building certifications like LEED, Green Globes or ENERGY STAR.
• Prefer familiarity with Bluebeam, SharePoint, SpecsIntact, RSMeans, CAD, Revit and Creo
• Knowledge of data center-specific tools like DCIM, EPMS, SCADA software, and CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modeling is helpful
• Familiarity with industry certifications such as Certified Data Centre Management Professional (CDCMP), Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) from Uptime Institute, or ASHRAE data center guidelines.

Qualifications

• ABET accredited Bachelor's degree required.
• 5-7 years technical experience in an engineering/construction environment
• Minimum of 3 years project management experience (Data center or mission-critical facility projects preferred)