Manager, OFCI Technical Program Management - Data Center Supply Chain
About The Position
SB Energy is seeking a Manager with deep industry experience to lead the technical program management for owner-furnished, contractor-installed (OFCI) power and cooling equipment. You will own the integrated execution schedule and the workflow for technical risks, decisions, dependencies, design evolution and changes across equipment packages. You will collaborate with SB Energy’s clients, OEMs, and vendors to deliver reliable and fast solutions with the best total cost of ownership (TCO) through sound technical decisions, change management, risk management and value engineering programs, controlling avoidable design change, churn, delays and rework. From day one, you will make independent execution decisions within delegated authority and coordinate approved roadmap and multi-sourcing initiatives. Eventually, you will build a team with sufficient program management capacity to deliver seamlessly across projects and equipment packages across.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, supply chain, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 10+ years in technical program or project management, with substantial responsibility for OFCI or comparable long-lead equipment programs serving data centers.
- Strong technical program management expertise and success building and leading program teams.
- Experience hiring, coaching, managing performance, delegating ownership, and allocating resources across concurrent programs.
- Extensive OEM program experience involving engineering, manufacturing, and testing.
- Understanding how submittits, design freezes, component constraints, factory capacity, and acceptance affect equipment delivery.
- Strong power and cooling systems fluency to challenge assumptions, identify technical dependencies, and frame decisions with senior engineers while respecting technical approval authority.
- A record of recovering threatened milestones across concurrent programs, adapting to changing requirements, and making independent prioritization and resource decisions under ambiguity.
- Commercial judgment in acceleration, rework, scope changes, contractual milestones, TCO, and cost-of-delay exposure.
- Ability to present actionable recommendations from incomplete or conflicting inputs.
- Expertise in critical-path scheduling, risk/change management, and executive reporting.
- Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent planning tools.
- Experience coordinating product introductions and alternate-source qualifications.
- Credibility with clients, OEMs, and vendors.
- Willingness to travel to factories, client locations, and project sites, including internationally.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced study or PMP/PgMP certification is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical program management across multiple projects and stakeholders with clear program definitions, critical milestones, and business priorities.
- Own the integrated technical execution schedule from supplier reviews and qualification through manufacturing readiness, testing, and acceptance.
- Link package milestones to project delivery dates and the portfolio priorities supplied by Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
- Own the risk, action, decision, dependency, and change-control workflow.
- Assign accountable owners and decision dates, link to Supplier Engineering’s controlled evidence, and drive closure without duplicating technical records or approvals.
- Coordinate client and vendor technical reviews and readiness gates.
- Consolidate change impacts from domain engineers, supplier assurance, Category Procurement, and IBP.
- Assess execution dependencies and recovery options, secure accountable decisions, and maintain the integrated change and decision history.
- Own execution of sequencing and recovery of coordination within delegated authority.
- Quantify acceleration, rework, and delay costs with clients and vendors.
- Schedule approved product-roadmap releases, pilots, fungibility validation, and second-source introductions.
- Track dependencies and milestones against acceptance criteria defined by technical owners; maintain visibility of effects on TCO and delivery.
- Provide package readiness dates and execution risks to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and use its agreed demand priorities.
- Publish program status, decision aging, critical-path exposure, and recovery progress.
- Improve execution through practical automation and lessons learned.
Benefits
- 100% Company-Paid Medical, Dental & Vision (for employees and dependents)
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Generous Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
- 12 Weeks Parental Leave
- Life, AD&D & Long-Term Disability Coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Medical, Dependent Care, Transit & Parking (with company contributions)
- Mental, Physical & Social Wellness Support (with company contributions)
- Flexible Work Arrangements & Hybrid Office Setup
- Monthly Reimbursement for Phone, Internet & Data
- Optional Legal & Pet Insurance Plans
- Device Purchase Support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
