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Project Manager

Houston, TXOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • project scope
  • project schedule
  • project budget
  • project quality
  • project safety
  • project risks
  • customer communication
  • delivery plan
  • project reviews
  • reporting

Nice to have

  • hyperscale
  • colocation
  • PMP
  • PMI
  • PRINCE2
  • OSHA 30

Role summary

Seeking a Project Manager to oversee data center and mission-critical facility projects from inception to close-out. Responsibilities include managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and customer communication. The role involves coordinating multiple building trades, managing technical interfaces, and ensuring compliance with project controls and commercial requirements. Key duties include risk management, quality assurance, testing, commissioning, and leading cross-functional teams. Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in engineering or construction management, with substantial project management experience in relevant environments. Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills are essential.

Job Description

    • Own project scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, risks and customer communication from handover through close-out.
    • Build and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering engineering, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning and handover.
    • Lead regular project reviews and provide clear, forward-looking reporting on milestones, forecast, risks, decisions and recovery actions.
    • Manage several workstreams or projects simultaneously while maintaining clear priorities and accountability.
    • Trade and site coordination

      • Coordinate interfaces among electrical, mechanical, controls, BMS/EPMS, network/OT, fire protection, security and other building trades.
      • Align Orise activities with general contractors, construction managers, equipment vendors, commissioning agents and customer teams.
      • Identify interface gaps, access constraints, sequencing conflicts and readiness issues before they affect installation or commissioning.
      • Maintain strong site presence during critical execution phases and ensure disciplined issue escalation and closure.
      • Commercial and financial management

        • Maintain project budgets, cost-to-complete forecasts, resource plans, invoicing and cash-flow visibility.
        • Protect scope and margin through disciplined change control, timely notices, substantiated change orders and documented customer decisions.
        • Monitor planned versus actual effort, subcontractor commitments and schedule impacts, and initiate corrective actions early
      • Risk, quality and commissioning

        • Maintain an active risk and opportunity register with owners, due dates and mitigation actions.
        • Ensure compliance with Orise and customer quality and safety requirements.
        • Oversee design reviews, submittals, FAT, SAT, integrated systems testing, commissioning support, punch-list closure and turnover documentation.
        • Confirm that systems, documentation and training are ready for reliable operations at handover.

        Customer and team leadership

        • Act as the primary customer contact and escalation point for assigned projects.
        • Lead cross-functional, multicultural project teams and create clarity on deliverables, interfaces, decision rights and priorities.
        • Build trusted working relationships and communicate issues transparently, with solutions and clear recommendations.
        • Capture lessons learned and improve Orise project delivery standards and repeatability.

Your Profile

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant trade and project delivery experience.
  • Substantial project management experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, complex commercial buildings or comparable high-availability environments.
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple building trades and managing technical interfaces across design, construction and commissioning.
  • Working knowledge of building automation and controls environments, such as BMS, EPMS, PLC/SCADA, instrumentation, OT networks and associated electrical or mechanical systems.
  • Strong project controls and commercial skills, including schedule management, forecasting, change orders, subcontractor management and customer reporting.
  • Experience managing site execution, testing, commissioning and handover in an active construction environment.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment and the ability to lead without relying solely on formal authority.
  • Authorization to work in the United States and ability to travel regularly to customer and project sites.

Preferred

  • Experience delivering hyperscale or colocation data center projects.
  • PMP, PMI, PRINCE2 or comparable project management certification.
  • OSHA 30 or comparable construction safety training.
  • Experience with critical-path scheduling tools and structured project controls.
  • Experience with vendor-agnostic systems integration and global delivery teams.

Responsibilities for Health, Safety and Environment include:

  • Work in compliance with divisional health, safety, and environmental procedures
  • Refrain from removing or altering safety devices or guarding unless hazardous energies are controlled through lockout-tagout methods
  • Report any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts
  • Report defect in any equipment or protective device
  • Ensure that the required protective equipment is used for the assigned tasks
  • Attend all required health, safety, and environmental training
  • Report any accidents/incidents to supervisor
  • Assist in investigating accidents/incidents
  • Refrain from engaging in any prank, contest, feat of strength, unnecessary running, or rough and boisterous conduct

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations.

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