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Senior Project Manager (Building Automation)
We are a hiring for a leading independent building controls provider serving the Data Center industry who partner with global and regional customers to design, implement, and optimize building automation, energy management, and critical-power systems. The field teams deliver hands-on engineering, commissioning, and service excellence for mission-critical environments.
Role Overview
The Senior Project Manager (Building Automation Systems) is responsible for leading mission-critical BAS and EPMS projects from design through commissioning and turnover. This role ensures high‑reliability delivery for hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center environments where uptime, accuracy, and compliance are essential. The Senior Project Manager acts as the primary client interface, oversees multi‑discipline teams, manages budgets and schedules, and ensures that all systems are delivered to data center industry standards.
- Project/portfolio management of large BAS/EPMS data center projects; align with SLAs, milestones, and critical-path schedules.
- Mentor junior PMs, associate PMs, and Project Superintendents; manage internal engineers, programmers, field technicians, electricians, and commissioning partners. • Manage multi-million-dollar budgets, forecasts, cost control, change orders, procurement, and revenue recognition.
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation and status reporting; ensure turnover packages and closeout deliverables meet owner standards.
- Lead risk/issue management, safety adherence, and cross-functional collaboration; drive consistency across projects and regions.
- Client/stakeholder relations, high-integrity leadership, and team development; travel as needed for commissioning windows. Required and desired skills:
Required: 5–10 years PM experience in BAS/EPMS or mission-critical MEP; hyperscale/colocation data center experience preferred; PMP is preferred; strong technical understanding of BAS/EPMS architecture, metering, SCADA, and electrical distribution.