Data Center Closeout Manager - Project Manager

AMTS is hiring a Data Center Closeout Manager / Project Manager, this person is responsible for leading projects through the final phases of construction, commissioning, turnover, commercial closeout, and transition to operations.

This role serves as a critical connection between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, contractors, vendors, project controls, and the owner/operator. The successful candidate will ensure that projects are not only physically complete, but also fully documented, tested, accepted, and ready for safe and reliable operation.

The position requires strong project-management skills, attention to detail, technical understanding of critical infrastructure, and the ability to drive multiple stakeholders toward defined completion and turnover milestones.

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage assigned projects or project closeout activities from late-stage construction through final completion.
• Establish and maintain project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and closeout plans.
• Coordinate engineering, construction, procurement, commissioning, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Monitor scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and outstanding project issues.
• Lead project meetings and communicate status, risks, decisions, and required actions.
• Identify potential delays and develop recovery strategies.
• Maintain clear accountability for open items and ensure timely resolution.

Construction Completion & Punch List

• Lead the transition from substantial completion to final completion.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive punch lists and deficiency logs.
• Assign responsibility and due dates for outstanding deficiencies.
• Coordinate with contractors and subcontractors to drive corrective actions to completion.
• Verify completed work in the field and coordinate retesting where required.
• Track critical deficiencies that could affect commissioning, turnover, occupancy, or operational readiness.
• Coordinate final inspections and acceptance activities.

Commissioning & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate with the commissioning team to ensure systems are ready for testing.
• Track commissioning prerequisites, pre-functional checklists, functional testing, and integrated systems testing activities.
• Coordinate resolution of commissioning deficiencies.
• Monitor completion of testing documentation and system turnover requirements.
• Support transition from construction completion to operational readiness.
• Coordinate with owner operations and facility teams to ensure required training, documentation, spare parts, and operational information are delivered.

Data Center / Critical Infrastructure Coordination

Develop working knowledge of and coordinate completion activities associated with critical systems including:

• Medium- and low-voltage electrical distribution
• Switchgear and transformers
• Generators and emergency power systems
• UPS systems and battery systems
• Automatic transfer switches
• Mechanical cooling systems
• Chillers and cooling towers
• Pumps and hydronic systems
• CRAH/CRAC systems
• Building Management Systems (BMS)
• Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS)
• Controls and instrumentation
• Fire detection and suppression
• Security and life-safety systems
• Structured cabling and communications infrastructure

Document Control & Turnover

• Develop and maintain project closeout and turnover matrices.
• Track required deliverables from contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and engineering teams.
• Coordinate collection, review, correction, and acceptance of:
• • As-built drawings
  • O&M manuals
  • Equipment documentation
  • Test reports
  • Startup records
  • Commissioning documentation
  • Warranties
  • Training records
  • Spare-parts inventories
  • Certificates and certifications
  • Inspection records
  • Equipment schedules
  • Final project documentation
• Ensure documentation is complete, accurate, properly formatted, and submitted according to owner requirements.
• Maintain clear visibility of outstanding turnover deliverables.

Commercial & Contract Closeout

• Coordinate final project financial and contractual closeout.
• Track outstanding purchase orders, subcontracts, commitments, invoices, change orders, and claims.
• Coordinate final payment documentation and retainage release requirements.
• Assist with resolution of commercial disputes and outstanding contractor issues.
• Coordinate required lien waivers/releases and other closeout documentation.
• Confirm contractual deliverables have been satisfied before final closeout.
• Support final cost reporting and project financial reconciliation.

Owner & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a primary point of coordination for closeout and turnover activities.
• Communicate project status clearly to owners, project leadership, contractors, and internal teams.
• Prepare closeout dashboards, reports, action-item logs, and executive updates.
• Escalate issues that threaten schedule, cost, quality, commissioning, or turnover.
• Maintain professional relationships with owners, contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

Position Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline; equivalent industry experience may be considered.
• 6 years of experience in construction, engineering, project management, commissioning, turnover, or closeout.
• Experience with large-scale commercial, industrial, mission-critical, semiconductor, data-center, healthcare, energy, or similarly complex facilities preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong understanding of construction project delivery and project closeout processes.
• Experience with project schedules and project controls.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under schedule pressure.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with project-management/document-control platforms such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bluebeam, SharePoint, or similar systems preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on data-center or mission-critical projects.
• Experience with EPC, EPCm, design-build, or construction-management delivery.
• Experience with commissioning and integrated systems testing.
• Electrical or mechanical construction experience.
• Familiarity with critical power and cooling systems.
• Experience managing turnover to facility operations.
• PMP, CCM, LEED, or other relevant professional certification.
• Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar scheduling platforms.
• Experience with cost-management and change-management processes.

Role Definition

The Closeout Manager / Project Manager is ultimately responsible for creating a controlled path from:

Construction Completion → Punch List → Commissioning → Testing → Documentation → Owner Acceptance → Commercial Closeout → Operational Handover

The ideal candidate brings enough technical, commercial, construction, and project-management knowledge to see the entire project lifecycle rather than treating closeout as a documentation-only function.

AM Technical Solutions (AM), founded in 1994, is a proven and licensed architect, engineering, and construction firm. Our company delivers the entire scope of work for high-tech construction projects on schedule, on budget, and at the level of quality required by customers.

The AM core foundation was built on quality programs that optimized semiconductor facility operations. As the company developed, AM added core competencies on pre-construction, procurement, and construction. Further, through strategic acquisitions, we added design, commissioning, and validation to create a complete end-to-end solution for high-tech construction project delivery.

AMTS AE is a licensed Engineering and Architecture, Business Unit of AM Technical Solutions. At AMTS AE, we focus on providing design and consulting services for advanced technology, government, university, and industrial clients, specializing in research, pilot lines, manufacturing, cleanrooms, and advanced laboratories. We also provide start-up consulting, process improvements, industrial engineering, and high-tech operations support.

For more information, please visit www.amts.com