Project Manager – Data Center Liquid Cooling

We are seeking a highly organized and execution-oriented Project Manager/Director to lead data center liquid-cooling retrofit and upgrade projects, with a primary focus on single-phase spray cooling. The Project Manager will own overall project organization, planning, coordination, documentation, schedule, follow-up, and delivery from customer engagement through final acceptance. This is a project-execution role rather than a product or solution design role.

The Project Manager/Director works closely with the Technical & Solution Architect. The Technical & Solution Architect owns the technical workstream, including product design, solution architecture, engineering decisions, technical specifications, technical validation, and technical customer requirements. The Project Manager/Director owns the overall project execution and ensures that technical deliverables are clearly defined, scheduled, coordinated, and completed on time.

• Own the overall project execution plan from customer requirement, bid, and purchase order through installation, commissioning, and customer acceptance.
• Establish project scope, milestones, deliverables, responsibilities, schedule, communication cadence, and escalation procedures.
• Lead project kickoff meetings and recurring project reviews.
• Maintain the master project schedule and drive the project team toward milestone completion.
• Provide clear and timely project status reports to management and customers.

• Manage brownfield liquid-cooling retrofit and upgrade projects in existing operating data centers.
• Coordinate site surveys, site readiness, logistics, installation planning, and customer access requirements.
• Coordinate project interfaces with existing cooling, piping, electrical, controls/BMS, rack, and facility infrastructure.
• Develop installation sequencing and coordinate activities to minimize disruption to live data-center operations.
• Track site preparation, equipment delivery, installation, commissioning, punch-list closure, and final acceptance.

• Coordinate Sales, Technical & Solution, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Field Service, contractors, and customer teams.
• Clearly define ownership and deadlines for each project deliverable.
• Maintain action-item, dependency, risk, and issue trackers.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution and elevate unresolved issues to the appropriate owner.
• Ensure communication and handoffs between engineering, manufacturing, field execution, and customer teams are effective.

• Lead the overall preparation and coordination of RFQ, RFP, quotation, proposal, and bid packages.
• Own the bid schedule and coordinate timely inputs from Sales, Technical & Solution, Engineering, Procurement, and Operations.
• Collect technical content from the Technical & Solution Manager and ensure it is incorporated correctly into customer documentation.
• Coordinate project scope, assumptions, schedule, BOM/equipment lists, installation requirements, commercial inputs, and execution plans.
• Ensure bid documentation is complete, internally reviewed, approved, consistent, and submitted on time.

• Conduct regular project follow-up meetings and maintain clear action-item ownership.
• Monitor engineering deliverables, procurement status, manufacturing progress, shipment, site readiness, installation, and commissioning.
• Identify schedule risks and delays early and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain project change control and communicate impacts to scope, schedule, cost, and resources.
• Coordinate installation and commissioning activities with field service teams, contractors, technical teams, and customers.
• Coordinate FAT/SAT, functional testing, thermal-performance testing, leak checks, controls integration, and other project acceptance activities.
• Track punch-list items and ensure timely closure.
• Coordinate final project documentation, test reports, as-built information, and customer acceptance.

• Maintain project risk and issue registers and conduct regular risk reviews.
• Track project schedule, resource requirements, procurement risks, and major cost drivers.
• Escalate critical technical issues to the Technical & Solution Manager and ensure resolution is tracked to closure.
• Monitor project execution against approved scope, budget, and…