Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Flexnode is an industrialized platform for AI infrastructure focused on distributed inference at scale. The Senior Project Manager will lead mechanical systems for high-density AI and HPC data center deployments, defining cooling strategies and overseeing implementation from site diligence through operational handoff. The role coordinates consultants, partners, schedules, costs, procurement, technical decisions, and customer requirements across concurrent projects.
Responsibilities
- Define and coordinate cooling and mechanical systems for high-density AI workloads, including heat rejection, HVAC, liquid-cooling interfaces, water distribution, and equipment integration
- Manage engineering consultants and other delivery partners through clear scopes, deliverables, and accountability; drive timely technical decisions and review designs for performance, constructability, maintainability, cost, schedule, and product alignment
- Coordinate each deployment from site diligence through operational handoff, integrating design and permitting with factory production, procurement, and site execution
- Own the interfaces between factory-built modules and site-installed systems, standardizing mechanical criteria and incorporating project decisions and lessons into the product logic
- Own integrated delivery plans and schedules across projects, sites, and partners, defining milestones, dependencies, owners, decision points, and critical paths
- Establish repeatable project controls that clarify ownership and accountability; maintain action, decision, risk, and change records, identify slippage early, and drive resolution or recovery
- Support Supply Chain team in developing and maintaining project cost models, validating vendor and construction pricing, and tracking assumptions, changes, contingencies, and unresolved commercial exposure
- Support Supply Chain team in managing the procurement of mechanical and other long-lead equipment from selection and submittal through release and delivery, ensuring alignment with project requirements and timelines
- Translate customer requirements and commercial commitments into executable scopes and technical decisions, providing clear delivery assumptions and diligence materials to Growth, customers, investors, and leadership
Skills
- ● Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline focused on HVAC, thermal or energy systems; equivalent relevant work experience may be considered
- ● 7+ years of experience in project management, mechanical engineering, construction, or MEP delivery for data centers, mission-critical or industrial facilities, modular construction, or related infrastructure
- ● Experience managing multiple complex projects, technical disciplines, external partners, and concurrent workstreams
- ● Mechanical engineering experience or substantial hands-on coordination of cooling, HVAC, heat rejection, mechanical distribution, and equipment integration for liquid-cooled, high-density compute environments
- ● Working knowledge of mechanical design, modeling, and documentation in Revit; familiarity with SolidWorks, Rhino, FabMEP, or related tools is a plus
- ● Strong experience with integrated schedules, cost estimating and buildups, procurement tracking, change management, and schedule risk
- ● Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and unresolved decisions before they become schedule or cost problems
- ● Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including meeting leadership and clear project documentation
- ● Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable creating structure in a fast-moving startup environment
- ● Willingness to travel to project sites, partner facilities, customer meetings, and factories as needed
- ● Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field; PE license, PMP certification, or equivalent project-delivery experience
- ● Experience with design for manufacture and assembly, prefabrication, factory production, or modular building systems
- ● Experience with general contractors, EPC firms, construction managers, developers, factory partners, or equipment manufacturers
- ● Familiarity with Smartsheet or similar scheduling and project-management tools; ACC, Procore, or related platforms
- ● Experience with project controls, earned-value tracking, risk registers, change orders, commissioning, customer or investor diligence, technical sales, or infrastructure partnerships
- ● Experience working in a fully remote, cross-functional team
Benefits
- Stock options provided according to the Board Approved Stock Option Plan.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Dependent Care FSA
- STD/LTD & Group Life insurance
- Wellness Program
- Cellphone & Internet stipend
- Fully remote position
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