Assistant Project Manager
About The Position
SB Energy is a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, seeking an entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial Assistant Project Manager. The company focuses on delivering reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates large-scale energy and data center infrastructure projects across the United States. They have a strong culture of innovation, utilizing an AI-based digital platform to deliver local, reliable energy infrastructure matched to load. This role is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing, top-tier integrated platform and contribute to accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from four-year college or university and 2 to 5 years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 2 to 5 years of project coordination experience in a high-pressure, and fast-paced environment, preferably supporting network hardware or data centers.
- Experience with data center lifecycles and/or large-scale networks.
- Builds productive internal and external working relationships.
- Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
- Understanding of project management teams, resolving conflict, and meeting schedule timelines.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, documentation).
- Ability to work on multiple projects and assignments concurrently.
- Self-starter who is able to quickly learn new tools and gain familiarity with new processes and technologies with minimal assistance.
- Experience creating spreadsheets, presentation material, and project/process documentation.
- Strong observational and analytical skills, including: ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information, strong attention to detail and accuracy, ability to track and report metrics, and manage risks.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and communicate project updates to client executives.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple, cross-functional and technical projects.
- Partner with functional teams during initiation, plan, design, procurement, deployment, and post deployment phases.
- Responsible for managing/tracking program milestones, timeline, and overall deliverables.
- Responsible for asset and material management across data centers and warehouses.
- Engage in creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation including schedules, reviews, process documents, risk analysis, etc.
- Participate in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
- Participate in driving project lifecycle milestones from concept commit through project closure and advocate change management.
- Use metrics and KPIs to measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, and provide regular status updates.
- Participate in internal process improvements; remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions.
- Ensure risks are accounted for and provide risk mitigation strategies.
- Be a point of contact for vendor partners and internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate and assist with regularly scheduled meetings with core teams.
- Take an active role in evaluation of post project results against metrics; recommend or implement changes to improve delivery practices/processes.
- Other duties as required.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
