Data Center Mechanical Technical Program Manager

Turner & Townsend • Oregon City, OR

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About The Position

We are currently seeking a "Data Center Mechanical Technical Program Manager " to oversee the design of Post Facility Ready mechanical system upgrades and retrofits. This will include building design teams from internal stakeholders and external partners/providers, facilitating the creation of a shared execution plan, and overseeing design services provided by an external design team in support of construction activities. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of mission critical design and construction, as well as new product development and insertion.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 10 years experience in Mechanical Engineering.
• Need industrial or commercial HVAC experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree and / or Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Experience in evaporative and air based process chilled water cooling systems.
• Thorough understanding of mechanical engineering principles, practices, and related technical areas.
• Knowledge of industry construction methods and techniques.
• Familiarity with mechanical cooling systems.
• Experience in construction or operations of large commercial buildings high rise, data centers, semi conductor, industrial processes etc.
• Advanced planning and communication management skills.
• Proficiency in continuous improvement, execution, organizational change, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria.
• Estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support those objectives within an organization.
• Effectively monitor and communicate progress and risks. Propose mitigation plans, and align stakeholders on de-risking strategies.
• Measure and publish program and process metrics to drive consensus in teams’ understanding of issues and to drive decision-making.
• Seek out and apply relevant best practices from other processes and technologies.
• Organize ambiguous projects into clear longer-term (6+ months) objectives.
• Build effective program teams within and across an organization. Understand and address their needs to support them throughout their life cycles.
• Guide alignment on timelines, goals, and deliverables of related projects and teams.
• Manage escalations and unblock obstacles.
• Break down programs and processes into components that could be executed by less senior team members.
• Independently design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications.
• Articulately represent the program across touchpoints.
• Independently determine program phasing and metrics that effectively address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship.
• Optimize regular checkpoints and metrics dashboards.
• Ensure stakeholders are aligned on rationale for program pivots.
• Independently determine and collect data required to govern programs and effectively drive stakeholder decision-making.
• Independently maintain project trackers and status reports.
• Identify and execute program tasks, including proactively managing dependencies, while incorporating Product Excellence values, Product Inclusion, and brand trust and reputation.
• Define program governance structure by determining effective management of mitigations, postmortems, and escalation reports.
• Lead effective program stakeholder meetings.
• Independently develop change management rollout plans for programs including impact analysis.
• Across multiple teams, independently define, lead, and own program charter(s) that address scope, and timeline, OKRs, resourcing and risks/dependencies of moderately complex programs.
• Translate ambiguous program goals into clear and measurable objectives/milestones.
• Create project plans that break down a project into discrete phases aligned to the needs of stakeholders, include risks/dependencies, and support proactive identification of program constraints.

Benefits

• Great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
• Opportunity for people to succeed both in work and life.
• Healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior