Data Center Construction Program Manager

Atoms; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress. We’re seeking a program manager to own data center projects from design through energization, coordinating electrical, mechanical, structural, and other scopes.

You will drive schedules, budgets, procurement, and risk management, review designs and estimates, and push for root-cause solutions when issues arise. Join a team delivering high-impact infrastructure in a rapidly growing field.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering complex construction or infrastructure projects.
• Data center or mission-critical experience.
• Experience delivering projects through utility energization, equipment startup, commissioning, and turnover.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, schedules, estimates, submittals, RFIs.

Responsibilities

• Own data center projects from design through construction, energization, commissioning, and turnover, with accountability for cost, schedule, scope, quality, and risk.
• Help build Atoms’ data center development and construction program from the ground up, establishing the standards, processes, and playbook we’ll use as the program scales.
• Apply a first-principles approach to how we design and build. Challenge industry conventions, understand why things are done the way they are, and find better ways to deliver.
• Drive project execution and understand the critical path. Identify risks early and solve problems before they impact key milestones.
• Lead coordination across electrical, mechanical, structural, controls, fire/life safety, and architectural scopes.
• Drive utility coordination, permitting, inspections, energization, and commissioning.
• Manage consultants, general contractors, specialty trades, equipment vendors, and commissioning providers, holding teams accountable for performance.
• Own procurement and delivery of critical and long-lead equipment, including transformers, switchgear, generators, UPS, and cooling systems.
• Review and challenge designs, schedules, estimates, change orders, and technical proposals. Identify gaps and drive decisions rather than simply administering the process.
• When problems arise, determine the root cause, develop options, recommend a path forward, and drive it to resolution.

Skills

Project scheduling

Cost management

Procurement

Change management

MEP coordination

Subcontractor coordination

Electrical coordination

Job description

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress. We’re seeking a program manager to own data center projects from design through energization, coordinating electrical, mechanical, structural, and other scopes.

You will drive schedules, budgets, procurement, and risk management, review designs and estimates, and push for root-cause solutions when issues arise. Join a team delivering high-impact infrastructure in a rapidly growing field.