Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tate delivers datacenter infrastructure solutions for mission-critical environments. The Senior Project Manager leads complex customer programs from factory planning and production through site delivery, commissioning, turnover, and final acceptance, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing risks and schedules, and ensuring commissioning readiness and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple high-value, technically complex programs from contract handoff through production, shipment, installation support, commissioning, and customer acceptance
- Establish integrated schedules, stage gates, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource plans, decision logs, and governance routines
- Drive accountability across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Logistics, Field Service, Commissioning, and Customer Operations
- Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, change control, risks, and executive escalations; develop recovery plans when commitments are at risk
- Provide executive reporting on critical-path status, forecast accuracy, key decisions, and risk exposure
- Own the commissioning-readiness plan from factory through site turnover, aligning equipment, documentation, resources, and prerequisites to the customer commissioning schedule
- Coordinate commissioning scope, responsibility matrices, test scripts, hold points, acceptance criteria, and handoffs among internal teams, contractors, commissioning agents, and customers
- Support and track Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), startup, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing (IST), and final acceptance, as applicable to project scope
- Validate site-readiness inputs including access, utilities, interfaces, installation completion, controls/network availability, permits, and customer prerequisites before mobilization or testing
- Coordinate field engineering and technical resources for installation verification, energization/startup support, testing, troubleshooting, and issue closure
- Lead daily commissioning coordination during critical execution windows with a clear plan of record, constraints log, escalation path, and recovery actions
- Manage commissioning punch lists, deficiencies, nonconformances, retesting, and evidence of closure to protect quality and acceptance milestones
- Ensure turnover packages are complete, including approved drawings, test records, inspection results, certificates, manuals, training records, redlines/as-builts, and warranty documentation
- Capture commissioning lessons learned and drive corrective actions into engineering, manufacturing, packaging, installation, and quality processes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field
- 8+ years of progressive project or program management experience in manufacturing, mission-critical facilities, datacenter infrastructure, industrial equipment, power, cooling, controls, or related technical environments
- Demonstrated experience supporting commissioning, startup, testing, turnover, or customer acceptance of complex equipment or infrastructure
- Working knowledge of commissioning lifecycle activities, including readiness reviews, FAT/SAT, functional testing, integrated testing, punch-list management, issue resolution, and turnover documentation
- Experience leading customer-facing programs and communicating with senior executives, technical stakeholders, contractors, and field teams
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, quality controls, production planning, supply chain, logistics, and product delivery
- Proven ability to lead multiple complex projects, cross-functional teams, critical-path schedules, and competing priorities
- Ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, test procedures, schedules, and contractual deliverables
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Excel, Power BI, or comparable project controls and reporting tools
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
Benefits
- This role is eligible for a discretionary bonus.
- Career Scope and Advancement: As we grow, new positions and career opportunities arise, offering accelerated paths for the right candidates, locally and globally.
- Access to a wide range of medical, dental, and vision benefits, along with personalized guidance from a “Health Advocate.”
- Supplemental options, including 401k, legal, disability, and theft insurance.
- Ample opportunities to support the company’s Planet Passionate community initiatives.
- Skills development through a diverse and multifaceted role that allows employees to become more versatile and develop a broader skill set.
- Access and exposure to senior leaders and experts for learning in the role, plus mentorship for the future.
- A highly collaborative, supportive, and social team culture.
- Remote work arrangement
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