Data Center Project Lead: Hybrid PM & Coordination

Flex Employee Services; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex Employee Services is seeking a highly motivated Hybrid PM/Foreman to lead data center infrastructure projects from planning through completion, blending project management with hands-on coordination of cabling, networking, and hardware teams. This role focuses on planning, scheduling, vendor management, documentation, and ensuring work meets project requirements while maintaining safety and quality in fast-paced environments.

Travel to data center sites across the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in IT/Engineering/Construction Management or related field.
• 5+ years of data center infrastructure, structured cabling, networking, or related environments.
• 2+ years in project management, project coordination, or infrastructure deployment management.
• Strong understanding of data center environments and deployment including cabling, racks, servers, network equipment, and power.
• Ability to read technical drawings, rack elevations, floor plans, cable schedules, and deployment plans.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple teams, vendors, contractors, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Experience managing project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with PM tools such as MS Project, Excel, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, and coordinate data center infrastructure projects from planning through completion.
• Develop project scope, objectives, schedules, milestones, and resource plans with stakeholders.
• Coordinate cabling, networking, hardware deployment, and other infrastructure activities across project teams.
• Serve as the primary coordination point between clients, project stakeholders, data center operations, vendors, contractors, and technical teams.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, tracking dependencies and progress.
• Coordinate internal resources, third-party vendors, contractors, and field teams to stay on schedule.
• Monitor project status, risks, delays, and mitigation plans.
• Conduct regular status meetings and provide progress updates to management.
• Review technical requirements and deployment plans to ensure alignment with objectives.
• Coordinate scheduling and sequencing of work without performing physical installation.
• Track materials, equipment availability, site readiness, and resource allocation.
• Manage issues, change requests, scope changes, and escalations.
• Ensure work complies with data center standards, safety policies, and quality expectations.
• Facilitate handoffs between construction, cabling, infrastructure, networking, and operations teams.
• Maintain project documentation and closeout records.
• Travel to data center sites as required to support execution and stakeholder meetings.

Skills

Project planning

Coordination

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Risk management

Technical understanding

Microsoft Project

Excel

Jira

Smartsheet

Asana

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering/Construction Management/PM or related field

5+ years data center infrastructure experience (equivalent)

PMP/CAPM/PRINCE2 certification (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Smartsheet

Asana

Excel

Job description

Flex Employee Services is seeking a highly motivated Hybrid PM/Foreman to lead data center infrastructure projects from planning through completion, blending project management with hands-on coordination of cabling, networking, and hardware teams. This role focuses on planning, scheduling, vendor management, documentation, and ensuring work meets project requirements while maintaining safety and quality in fast-paced environments.

Travel to data center sites across the U.S.