Data Center Project Manager, Consultant

WSP•Houston, LA

About The Position

WSP is seeking a Project Manager to join its Data Center Center of Excellence, a group focused exclusively on data centers and supporting AI and cloud infrastructure clients. The Project Manager leads multidisciplinary engineering teams from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight, while managing client communication, proposals, change orders, budgets, invoicing, and project closeout. The role oversees medium to large projects, potentially managing several at once. It includes planning and monitoring scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and project performance; coordinating with clients, team members, vendors, subconsultants, regulatory authorities, technical agencies, and the public; and providing administrative and technical leadership. The Project Manager also supports business development, maintains project records, facilitates meetings, manages stakeholder expectations, and mentors team members.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
At least 3 years of experience in project and/or program management, with experience on large engineering and/or construction projects.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of project professionals and concurrently managing issues, scope, and quality to deliver projects within cost and schedule requirements.
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to senior management.
Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to work with people from different disciplines and levels of technical experience.
Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers, and staff.
Strategic, conceptual, and analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
Adaptability and flexibility, including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, and change.
Experience negotiating contract terms.
Proficiency with office productivity software such as MS Office and project management software tools.
Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
Familiarity with reading drawings and specifications.

Nice To Haves

Project or Program Management Professional certification, such as PMP.
Experience in an engineering consulting environment.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or project management.
Experience in project planning, cost management, schedule management, and methods for analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs.

Responsibilities

Lead engineers, designers, and other staff through project completion, including successful delivery of medium to large projects and concurrent management of multiple projects.
Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management and client approval.
Communicate regularly with clients about project status and quality, proactively resolving issues and managing expectations.
Manage relationships with internal and external clients, vendors, regulatory authorities, technical agencies, and the public.
Track, analyze, and report actual project performance against plans, including cost and schedule reporting for clients and internal processes.
Manage project financial forecasts, budgets, key performance indicators, change management, and client and subconsultant invoicing.
Analyze project management and delivery risks, establish contingency plans, and identify trigger events and responsibility for mitigation.
Lead business development initiatives, including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; develop scopes of work and fee estimates with input from others.
Mentor, assist, encourage, and motivate team members, and provide general administrative and technical project leadership.
Maintain project records and monitor correspondence.
Schedule and facilitate project meetings needed to coordinate work activity.
Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned.
Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project.
Track and report workload management throughout the project.
Manage project closeout.