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From inception through closeout, this role ensures on-time, on-scope, under-budget delivery by developing project charters, work breakdown structures (WBS), and integrated baselines for scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, and risks. Acting as the primary liaison between customers, internal engineering, and field crews, you will oversee the installation of critical facility technologies-including structured cabling and fiber infrastructure-while maintaining rigorous standards for safety, documentation, and continuous improvement via post-project lessons learned.\nResponsibilities\nProject Initiation & Planning\nDevelop and gain stakeholder approval for project charters, defining scope, objectives, deliverables, success criteria, and high-level risks/milestones.\nCreate detailed project management plans, including Gantt charts, critical path method (CPM) schedules, resource planning and cost-loaded baselines using tools like MS Project or Primavera.\nConduct kickoff meetings, perform initial risk assessments with probability-impact matrices, and establish communication protocols aligned with RACI matrices.\nProject Execution & Technical Leadership\nProject Execution: Lead the execution of data center infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, technical standards, and customer requirements.\nInfrastructure Oversight: Manage the installation, termination, and testing of structured cabling and fiber systems, ensuring traceability via as-built documentation. Coordinate with network, facilities, security, construction, and operations team to sequence work and maintain site readiness.\nTechnical Validation: Ensure compliance with design standards, change control procedures and site access protocols; verify completion of deliverables including as-built drawings, test reports, labeling records, inventory updates and turnover packages.\nProblem Solving: Assist with onsite troubleshooting for connectivity or infrastructure issues, implementing corrective/preventive actions and updating change control logs. Identify delivery risks, technical coordination gaps, and execution issues early, then drive timely resolution before they affect schedule, budge, or operational stability. This includes analyzing root causes, evaluating options, and coordinating decisions across technical teams, vendors and stakeholders.\nVendor Tracking: Validate, track and report productivity for vendors and subcontractors performing cabling, splicing, labeling, testing, validation and documentation.\nProject Control\nLogistics: Track material availability, equipment readiness, inventory status, delivery dates, shortages, substitutions, and potential schedule impacts.Reporting: Deliver daily/weekly performance metrics, daily status updates, and comprehensive close-out packages.\nSite Audits: Assist with site surveys, quality inspections, and progress audits to ensure compliance with project standards, using control charts for quality metrics.\nMonitoring, Control & Closeout\nTrack project health via dashboards, forecast via EVM trends, and manage changes through formal integrated change control processes.\nMaintain a project risk register, conduct regular risk reviews, and escalate issues per governance thresholds.\nFacilitate project closure with lessons learned sessions, stakeholder sign-offs, resource releases, and financial settlements.\nStakeholder Engagement & Safety\nClient Relations: Serve as the primary point of contact, managing expectations through daily, weekly, monthly reporting, steering committee updates and issue/escalation logs.\nSafety Culture: Champion EHS with the operations team by integrating safety into the PM plan, tracking daily briefings, near-miss reports, and leading safety audits for zero-incident targets.\nQualifications\nExperience: Minimum of 5 years in a technical leadership or project management role within data centers or critical facilities, with proven use of PM tools/methods.\nEducation: Associate degree in a technical field preferred; 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