Technical Project Manager II

Torus•Salt Lake City, UT

2h•$140,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager II owns the schedule, scope, and coordination of Torus site builds, from design freeze through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handoff to operations. The sites use repeatable units and may scale to hundreds of nodes, requiring careful sequencing of vendors, lead times, and dependencies. This is a hands-on role requiring technical fluency and strong coordination across parallel workstreams. The project manager works daily with network, compute, and systems engineers; facilities and electrical contractors; carriers; and equipment vendors. The role identifies blockers, explains their impact, and determines next steps while balancing urgency with testing, validation, and rollback planning. The position is hybrid remote and based in Salt Lake City, with travel to Torus locations in Utah and occasional travel to remote sites. Candidates must already be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship. All candidates are subject to a background check.

Requirements

At least 5 years of project management work.
3–5 years managing technical projects in data center, network, infrastructure, or construction environments.
Demonstrated experience delivering projects involving multiple vendors, long-lead procurement, and fixed go-live dates.
Working technical fluency in networking and compute fundamentals, including switches, firewalls, servers, optics and cabling, power, and cooling, sufficient to challenge estimates and understand dependencies.
Experience building and maintaining project plans, risk registers, and status reports using standard tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, or similar.
Experience reviewing vendor quotes, bills of materials, and statements of work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with engineers, executives, and external vendors.
Ability to prioritize across concurrent workstreams and make clear decisions with incomplete information.
Comfort with change control and checklist-driven procedures.
Willingness to travel within Utah, with occasional travel to remote sites.
Must already have legal authorization to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
English reading, writing, and speaking proficiency.
Ability to communicate information clearly and exchange accurate information.
Ability to report to work reliably and use full, unimpaired skills and judgment to perform the job safely.
Ability to observe, detect, and respond to audible and visual machine-malfunction warnings when on the production floor.
Ability to traverse uneven terrain during site surveys, ascend stairs and ladders, and navigate active construction areas.
Ability to wear required job-site and production-floor PPE, including a hard hat or safety helmet, safety glasses, ear protection, high-visibility apparel, and protective footwear.
Ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally and work outdoors in varying weather.
Ability to work outside normal business hours for power-on events and cutovers.
Ability to travel to Torus sites in Utah and occasionally to remote sites.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GPU or high-density compute deployments or data center build-outs.
Familiarity with liquid cooling, high-density power distribution, or colocation and facility coordination.
Experience managing carrier circuit turn-ups and ISP or IP-address requests.
Familiarity with OT/ICS or energy infrastructure environments.
Experience with infrastructure automation or a technical background in systems or network engineering.
Experience with budget tracking and cost reporting on capital projects.
Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or similar.
Experience with Jira or similar tools, including building dashboards from live data.

Responsibilities

Own each site's integrated plan, including scope, milestones, dependencies, critical path, and go-live criteria.
Break each site into repeatable workstreams, including network core, compute, power, cooling, fiber and cabling, security, and telemetry, and track progress against the plan.
Run weekly cross-functional status meetings, maintain a single source of truth for schedules and risks, and provide clear leadership status reports.
Identify schedule risks early, propose mitigations, and escalate decisions requiring an owner.
Maintain a repeatable build playbook and incorporate lessons learned so subsequent builds improve.
Work with engineering and procurement to turn designs into bills of materials, review vendor quotes for completeness, and close quote gaps.
Track orders, lead times, shipments, and receiving across vendors; flag long-lead equipment at the beginning of each build.
Coordinate RMAs, substitutions, and re-quotes while protecting the schedule.
Maintain accurate site inventory and delivery status, including items owned, ordered, and missing.
Coordinate electrical, mechanical, and cooling work with facilities teams and contractors, including power feeds, PDUs, cooling distribution, and rack and cabinet readiness.
Schedule and run change windows, power-on events, and cutovers with rollback plans and clear communication.
Track site-readiness gates before equipment ships and before nodes are powered on.
Manage installation logistics for crews and technicians, including access, safety requirements, and sequencing.
Manage carrier circuit orders and turn-up, including demarc and handoff details, optics, BGP and IP-space requests, and installation dates.
Track address-space and registry applications with long lead times.
Manage vendor and contractor statements of work, deliverables, and acceptance; serve as the external parties' primary contact for schedules and dependencies.
Define commissioning and acceptance criteria with engineering and track completion for each site.
Drive punch lists to closure and confirm documentation, runbooks, labeling, and as-built records are delivered before handoff.
Coordinate handoff of nodes and sites to operations, customers, or hosting partners, including credential, access, and onboarding checklists.
Maintain site risk and issue registers ranked by impact on availability and schedule.
Apply change control to scope, schedule, and design changes, and communicate downstream impacts to cost, schedule, and other sites.
Track each build's budget against plan and flag variances early.
Document lessons learned after each build and feed them back into the build playbook.
Travel to Torus sites in Utah and occasionally to remote sites, and work outside normal business hours for power-on events and cutovers as needed.

Benefits

Employee Rewards Package including equity.
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan.
Torus-paid life and AD&D insurance, with options to purchase additional coverage.
Voluntary short- and long-term disability insurance.
Choice of traditional PPO or HSA-eligible medical plans, with Torus covering 50% of medical premiums.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Telehealth services, mental health support and coaching, and discounts on brands, dining, entertainment, and more for plan participants.
Unlimited discretionary PTO.
10 paid company holidays.
Waiting period-free 100% paid parental leave.
Regular company-wide offsites.
Torus-branded gear.
Peer Recognition Program.
Fully stocked break rooms with free snacks and drinks.