Data Center CQV/Validation Project Manager

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to lead validated environment and lab construction projects across a campus.

You will coordinate Owners, Architects, Engineers, QA/Validation, Contractors, and Vendors to meet IQ/OQ/PQ and regulatory requirements while managing scope, schedule, and budget baselines. You will develop validation strategies, maintain documentation controls, manage risks, and report progress to the Project Executive.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Business Management, Architecture, or related field.
• 5–10 years of direct project management experience on large capital projects, including regulated or validated settings.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, multi-site projects in validated environments (GMP/GLP/ISO 17025).
• Understanding of contract language, project accounting, and basic portfolio management.

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, monitor, and close validated environment projects across multiple sites, ensuring IQ/OQ/PQ, equipment qualification, data integrity, and regulatory expectations are met.
• Serve as the on-site/day-to-day on-site project lead, coordinating Owners, Architects, Engineers, QA/Validation, Contractors, and Vendors to achieve project objectives within validated-state constraints.
• Collaborate with the Project Executive to define and maintain project scope, schedule, and budget baselines; monitor progress and report deviations.
• Develop and implement validation strategies and documentation aligned with corporate validation policy.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks that could impact deliverables, schedules, budgets, data integrity, or compliance; escape as needed with proposed remedies.
• Track and report project performance to the Project Executive, including schedule status, budget, risk, QA/validation progress, and regulatory readiness.
• Manage and appropriately change orders, project delays, procurement, and contract administration for assigned projects; ensure alignment with validated baselines and contract requirements.
• Ensure robust documentation controls that meet contract, QA, and regulatory standards and support regulatory inspections.
• Seek opportunities to improve validation workflows, data integrity practices, and delivery quality to enhance client satisfaction.
• Maintain relationships with sponsors and stakeholders; act as a trusted advisor on validated-environment delivery and compliance at the project level.
• Manage vendor and subcontractor performance for assigned projects, selecting qualified partners and ensuring alignment with timelines and objectives.
• Manage project finances at the assignment level, including budgeting, forecasting, progress billings, and payables, ensuring alignment with project baselines.
• Prepare the project team for regulatory inspections and audits through thorough documentation and traceability.
• Foster a safe, compliant, and collaborative project environment; provide guidance to junior team members as needed.

Skills

Project management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Data integrity

Contract language understanding

MS Office

MS Project

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction or related field

Master's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Job description

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to lead validated environment and lab construction projects across a campus.

You will coordinate Owners, Architects, Engineers, QA/Validation, Contractors, and Vendors to meet IQ/OQ/PQ and regulatory requirements while managing scope, schedule, and budget baselines. You will develop validation strategies, maintain documentation controls, manage risks, and report progress to the Project Executive.