Data Center Mechanical Technical Program Manager

Turner & Townsend • $110K — $130K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience in Mechanical Engineering
  • Industrial or commercial HVAC experience required
  • Familiarity with mechanical cooling systems preferred
  • Master's Degree or Professional Engineer (PE) license is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Proactively identify and strategize with stakeholders for objectives
  • Monitor program progress, communicate risks, and propose mitigation plans
  • Publish metrics to facilitate team consensus and decision-making
  • Organize projects into clear objectives over a 6+ month horizon
  • Build effective cross-functional program teams and support them throughout their life cycles
  • Manage escalations and unblock obstacles in program execution
  • Define program charters including scope, timeline, and risks

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and influence critical mechanical system design
  • Engagement in mission-critical design and construction projects
  • Collaboration with external partners and a diverse team
  • Professional development through exposure to best practices and innovative processes
  • Dynamic work environment with opportunities for impact and visibility to executives
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are currently seeking a "Data Center Mechanical Technical Program Manager " to oversee the design of Post Facility Ready mechanical system upgrades and retrofits. This will include building design teams from internal stakeholders and external partners/providers, facilitating the creation of a shared execution plan, and overseeing design services provided by an external design team in support of construction activities. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of mission critical design and construction, as well as new product development and insertion.

What you'll do
* Proactively identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria. Estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support those objectives within an organization.
* Effectively monitor and communicate progress and risks. Propose mitigation plans, and align stakeholders on de-risking strategies.
* Measure and publish program and process metrics to drive consensus in teams' understanding of issues and to drive decision-making.
* Seek out and apply relevant best practices from other processes and technologies.
* Organize ambiguous projects into clear longer-term (6+ months) objectives.
* Build effective program teams within and across an organization. Understand and address their needs to support them throughout their life cycles.
* Guide alignment on timelines, goals, and deliverables of related projects and teams.
* Manage escalations and unblock obstacles.
* Break down programs and processes into components that could be executed by less senior team members.
* Independently design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications.
* Articulately represent the program across touchpoints.
* Independently determine program phasing and metrics that effectively address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship.
* Optimize regular checkpoints and metrics dashboards.
* Ensure stakeholders are aligned on rationale for program pivots.
* Independently determine and collect data required to govern programs and effectively drive stakeholder decision-making.
* Independently maintain project trackers and status reports.
* Identify and execute program tasks, including proactively managing dependencies, while incorporating Product Excellence values, Product Inclusion, and brand trust and reputation.
* Define program governance structure by determining effective management of mitigations, postmortems, and escalation reports.
* Lead effective program stakeholder meetings.
* Independently develop change management rollout plans for programs including impact analysis.
* Across multiple teams, independently define, lead, and own program charter(s) that address scope, and timeline, OKRs, resourcing and risks/dependencies of moderately complex programs.
* Translate ambiguous program goals into clear and measurable objectives/milestones.
* Create project plans that break down a project into discrete phases aligned to the needs of stakeholders, include risks/dependencies, and support proactive identification of program constraints.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
* Preferred: Master's Degree and / or Professional Engineer (PE) license.
* Minimum 10 years experience in Mechanical Engineering.
* Need industrial or commercial HVAC experience.

Preferred Experience
* Experience in evaporative and air based process chilled water cooling systems.
* Thorough understanding of mechanical engineering principles, practices, and related technical areas.
* Knowledge of industry construction methods and techniques.
* Ideally we would want someone who is familiar with mechanical cooling systems
* Ideally we are looking for someone who has been in construction or operations of large commercial buildings high rise, data centers, semi conductor, industrial processes etc.
* Possess advanced planning and communication management skills. Able to apply these skills in difficult situations.
* Proficiency in continuous improvement, execution, organizational change, and stakeholder management. Able to apply these skills in typical situations with minimal guidance.

Additional Information

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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