Senior Data Center Project Lead

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:

Approach each client engagement as a
partnership
, create an environment that attracts the
most talented professionals
and allows them to flourish, and regulate
growth
to maintain
excellence
in our service standards.

If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.

We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Project Lead to lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers performing comprehensive technical reviews of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs), and Method of Procedures (MOPs) for mission-critical data center facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Project Lead will serve as the primary technical and project coordination lead, ensuring that procedure reviews are completed on schedule, meet client expectations, and comply with applicable Saudi Arabian regulations, client standards, and industry best practices.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience supporting mission-critical facilities, data center operations, commissioning, facility engineering, operational readiness, or critical infrastructure, with the ability to lead technical teams and manage complex deliverables in a fast-paced client environment.

You will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of mission-critical facilities by overseeing procedure reviews, coordinating technical resources, resolving issues, managing deliverables, and serving as the primary interface with client stakeholders.

• Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of Mechanical, Electrical, and Safety Engineers performing reviews of SOPs, EOPs, and MOPs for mission-critical data center facilities.
• Develop project execution plans, schedules, resource assignments, deliverable trackers, and reporting tools to ensure effective project delivery.
• Monitor project progress, track milestones, manage priorities, and ensure client commitments are achieved on time and to the required quality standards.
• Identify project risks, technical issues, resource constraints, and schedule challenges, and develop mitigation strategies to ensure delivery objectives are maintained.
• Facilitate regular project meetings with internal teams, engineering staff, leadership, and client representatives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned projects, coordinating technical meetings with client operations, engineering, and facility management teams.
• Provide technical guidance during the review of SOPs, EOPs, and MOPs to ensure procedures are accurate, practical, safe, and aligned with operational requirements.
• Ensure procedures accurately reflect current facility configurations, operating philosophies, system redundancies, and site-specific requirements.
• Review engineering comments and recommendations for technical accuracy, consistency, completeness, and alignment with review criteria.
• Resolve technical conflicts and ensure standardized application of review methodologies across all facilities and disciplines.
• Perform final quality reviews of deliverables before client submission, ensuring comments, revisions, and technical recommendations are properly addressed.
• Ensure reviewed procedures support the safe and reliable operation of mission-critical infrastructure, including medium- and low-voltage electrical distribution, utility service and switching, UPS systems, standby generators, Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), chilled water systems, cooling towers, Computer Room Air Handlers (CRAH), pumps, valves, Building Management Systems (BMS), and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS).
• Verify procedures appropriately address Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Permit-to-Work requirements, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), electrical safety, arc flash hazards, isolation and verification requirements, emergency response procedures, and operational risk mitigation.
• Ensure procedure reviews comply with Saudi Arabian regulatory requirements, client standards, and applicable international codes and standards adopted by the project.
• Establish quality review processes for project deliverables, ensuring document revisions are properly controlled, traceable, and aligned with client expectations.
• Monitor review quality, provide coaching to engineering staff, and support continuous improvement of technical review methodologies and standards.
• Present review findings, technical recommendations, project updates, risks, and deliverable status to…