What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at Patmos?
Department: Operations: Operations Administration
Location: Kansas City, MO
Reports To: VP of Infrastructure
Travel Required: Yes – travel between company-owned sites is required, This role requires frequent on-site presence in Louisville, KY, with an expectation of approximately 50% travel during active construction and project execution phases.
Role Summary
The Project Manager is responsible for planning and delivering capital projects across Patmos' data center facilities. This includes managing the full project lifecycle for infrastructure upgrades, buildouts, and retrofits while ensuring alignment with operational goals, engineering standards, and compliance requirements.
They serve as the single point of contact for clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders and are accountable for end-to-end execution and delivery. This role supports on-site implementation, maintains project documentation, and ensures timelines, scope, and quality expectations are consistently met.
Core Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential responsibilities.
Project Planning & Delivery
- Plan and coordinate capital infrastructure projects including facility buildouts, system upgrades, and retrofits
- Own project timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
- Monitor progress, mitigate risks, and adapt project plans as needed
Client & Stakeholder Communication
- Serve as the single point of contact for clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
- Enforce meeting best practices, including agenda management, punctuality, and focused discussion
- Document and distribute meeting notes within SLA, including action items, owners, and next steps
- Acknowledge and track client requests in line with established response expectations
- Provide timely project updates, respond to inquiries, and coordinate stakeholder walkthroughs or approvals
- Ensure transparency through clear, proactive communication and well-maintained documentation
Documentation, Compliance & Systems
- Track all project activities in the centralized project system, including client requests, scope changes, tasks, and deliverables
- Maintain organized and up-to-date project documentation to support internal visibility and audit readiness
- Ensure adherence to defined SOPs, project standards, and documentation protocols throughout the project lifecycle
- Manage a change log that clearly outlines timeline, budget, and resource impacts
- Maintain version control and a revision history for all key project documents
On-Site Coordination & Support
- Coordinate with internal teams, clients, and vendors to support on-site project execution
- Validate that vendor work meets defined scope, quality expectations, and safety standards
- Own site readiness activities and ensure all documentation is complete, organized, and handed off appropriately post-project
Other Duties Assigned
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Physical Requirements
- Must be able to walk through active project areas and mechanical/electrical spaces
- May require lifting up to 25 lbs and wearing PPE during site walkthroughs
Qualifications
Requirements
- Initiative•3 - 5 years
- On-Site Coordination & Support•3 - 5 years
- Documentation, Compliance & Systems•3 - 5 years
- Client & Stakeholder Communication•3 - 5 years
- Project Planning & Delivery•3 - 5 years
About Us
Patmos Hosting, Inc. delivers Freedom as a ServiceTM, providing organizations with an independent alternative to Big Tech's commercial constraints, censorship, cancellation and deplatforming. Patmos owns and operates datacenter infrastructure with decentralized connectivity, open peering, and free Internet Exchange hosting, ensuring resilience and true independence. Its services span multi-megawatt colocation for AI and hyperscale workloads, GPU/high-performance compute, custom data centers, domains, web and cloud hosting, colocation and tailored website and application development.
Founded in 2022, Patmos is headquartered in Kansas City, MO, with teams and datacenters/locations in Kansas City, Dallas, Phoenix, Denver.
Why Join Us
Be part of a mission-driven company defending free speech and internet freedom.
At Patmos, you'll help protect online expression while ensuring legal compliance. Our team is shaping the future of digital freedom by building secure, high-performance internet infrastructure. We value privacy, innovation, and individual liberty—creating a purpose-driven, collaborative environment where your work matters.
Benefits include:
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) match (4%)
- Health, dental, & vision insurance
- Short and long term disability
- Life insurance (company paid and supplemental available)
- Generous parental leave, baby bonuses, marital bonuses, and other family-friendly perks
- 14 observed paid holidays that include solemnities
Patmos is an equal opportunity employer and proud member of the Catholic Benefits Association offering employee benefits that promote the dignity of the human person, the dignity of work, and the common good.