Bachelor's degree required; engineering degree not necessary.
7+ years of experience in project, program, or operational management in technical environments.
Strong grasp of schedules, budgets, procurement, and engineering milestones.
Ability to quickly understand technical products and engineered systems.
Experience managing customer-facing projects with multiple stakeholders.
Background in energy, data centers, or industrial manufacturing preferred.
Prior responsibility for multiple projects or programs is highly valued.
Responsibilities
Lead complex projects while gaining a deep understanding of technical products and processes.
Transition into ownership of customer or account verticals with multiple projects.
Coordinate cross-functional teams from project award through delivery.
Maintain visibility into schedules, budgets, and engineering milestones.
Serve as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams.
Provide strategic direction across multiple projects.
Oversee program-level financial performance, including budgets and forecasts.
Benefits
Full-time, direct-hire opportunity.
Primarily onsite work in Jacksonville, FL, with occasional remote flexibility.
Approximately 20% travel to customer and data center locations.
Opportunity for career growth into program-level leadership.
Comprehensive health, retirement, wellness, and insurance benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Description Be Part Of A High-Performing Team
Join a rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing organization supporting the expansion of mission-critical data center infrastructure. The business designs and manufactures custom modular cooling systems that move through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, delivery, and customer implementation. This team operates in a fast-paced, technically demanding environment where Program Managers connect customers with engineering, operations, procurement, scheduling, and manufacturing teams to keep complex projects moving.
This is a senior leadership-track opportunity for someone who can first establish credibility through hands-on project execution and then grow into broader responsibility for multiple projects, customer relationships, financial performance, and project teams.
What's In Store For You
Full-time, direct-hire opportunity.
Primarily onsite in Jacksonville, FL, with the team generally working onsite five days per week.
Occasional remote flexibility may be available based on business needs.
Approximately 20% travel, primarily to customer and data center locations.
Opportunity to transition from direct project execution into true program-level leadership.
Exposure to highly customized, engineered cooling systems supporting major data center customers.
Long-term scope includes broader customer/account ownership, P&L responsibility, multiple projects, and team leadership.
Comprehensive health, retirement, wellness, insurance, and paid-time-off benefits.
How You Will Make An Impact
Initially lead complex projects directly while building a deep understanding of technical products, internal processes, and the full project lifecycle.
Progress into ownership of a customer or account vertical containing multiple simultaneous projects.
Coordinate engineering, procurement, scheduling, manufacturing, production, and customer teams from project award through delivery.
Maintain executive-level visibility into schedules, budgets, engineering milestones, procurement activity, manufacturing progress, risks, and customer commitments.
Serve as a primary connection between data center customers and internal technical and operational teams.
Provide strategic direction across multiple projects rather than focusing solely on individual project execution.
Own or oversee program-level financial performance, including budgets, P&L, forecasts, and project health.
Identify project and program risks early and drive cross-functional resolution.
Develop strong customer relationships and maintain effective communication across changing priorities, technical issues, and execution challenges.
Lead and develop project-management resources as the scope expands, including Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Assistant Project Managers.
Help scale project-delivery practices as customer demand and data center cooling activity continue to expand.
Requirements Do You Have the Expertise to Lead Complex Technical Programs?
Bachelor's degree required; an engineering degree is not necessary.
7+ years of relevant project, program, technical, operational, or management experience in complex technical environments.
Strong understanding of schedules, budgets, procurement, manufacturing, engineering milestones, project risk, and customer delivery.
Demonstrated ability to quickly understand technical products and engineered systems.
Experience managing customer-facing projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Background in energy, data centers, thermal systems, industrial manufacturing, modular equipment, or another engineering-intensive environment strongly preferred.
Previous responsibility for multiple projects, portfolios, customer accounts, or programs is highly valued.
P&L or significant financial ownership is strongly preferred.
Prior people-management experience is strongly preferred.
Strong Senior Project Managers ready to step into Program Management will also be considered.
Military leadership experience in technically demanding environments is viewed favorably.
Strong communication, adaptability, judgment, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Comfortable working primarily onsite in Fort Worth and traveling approximately 20%.
