Director of Data Center Tenant Fit-Out

Prime Data Centers Corporation; Lockhart (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

401k with employer match

Full benefits (medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Prime Data Centers Corporation in Texas seeks a Director, Tenant Fit-Out to lead the TFO engineering organization, overseeing Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, Technical, Pre-Construction, BIM, and Estimating to design customer deployment solutions.

You will translate tenant requirements into buildable, code-compliant designs, align with Base Build, manage budget, staffing, and report status to senior leadership and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Structural Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data center design, engineering, or construction, with substantial exposure to tenant fit-out or colocation deployment work.
• 5+ years leading multidisciplinary engineering or design teams.
• Deep familiarity with data hall white space design: rack/cabinet layouts, power distribution (PDUs, busway, RPPs), cooling distribution, and structured cabling/fiber pathways.
• Track record partnering directly with enterprise or hyperscale customers on technical requirements and deployment specifications.
• Experience coordinating with base-build design and construction teams on capacity allocation and infrastructure tie-ins.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the TFO engineering organization across Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, Technical, Pre-Construction, BIM, and Estimating disciplines.
• Own end-to-end delivery of customer-ready deployment solutions, including white space design, rack layouts, power distribution within the data hall, structured cabling and fiber pathways, and customer equipment integration.
• Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for customer requirements, translating tenant specifications into constructible, code-compliant designs.
• Partner with Base Build Engineering leadership to align TFO designs with core facility capacity for electrical distribution, mechanical systems, structural loading, and utility integration.
• Establish design standards, templates, and playbooks for recurring tenant deployment types to improve consistency, speed, and cost predictability.
• Own the TFO engineering budget, staffing plan, and resource allocation across active and pipeline projects.
• Report program status, technical risks, and commercial impacts to senior leadership and, where appropriate, to customers.
• Champion continuous improvement in design quality, cost control, and schedule performance across the TFO portfolio.

Skills

Leadership

Multidisciplinary teams

Data center design

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Structural Engineering, Construction Management, or related field

Tools

BIM

CAD

Job description

Prime Data Centers Corporation in Texas seeks a Director, Tenant Fit-Out to lead the TFO engineering organization, overseeing Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, Technical, Pre-Construction, BIM, and Estimating to design customer deployment solutions.

You will translate tenant requirements into buildable, code-compliant designs, align with Base Build, manage budget, staffing, and report status to senior leadership and customers.