End-to-End Program Manager, Data Center Cooling

Nortek Data Center Cooling; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nortek Data Center Cooling is seeking a Program Manager to serve as the day-to-day cross-functional integrator for customer commitments on assigned programs. This hands-on role coordinates engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and service to meet schedule, cost, quality, and customer goals.

Reporting to the Vice President of Program Management, you will drive end-to-end program execution, manage risk, and maintain direct customer contact while Sales handles pricing strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline; equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of progressive program or project management experience, ideally in an engineer-to-order or complex manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Working command of program management methodologies and tools (e.g., Monday.com, Microsoft Project, PLM systems).
• Experience managing customer relationships and communicating program status directly with external stakeholders.
• Strong critical-path thinking, risk management discipline, and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent programs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution of assigned programs from opportunity identification through completion of product commissioning.
• Build, maintain, and drive the integrated program schedule with a relentless focus on critical-path items and dependencies across engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly, test, shipping, installation, and commissioning.
• Lead recurring program cadence meetings, ensuring clear ownership, decisions, and follow‑through on action items.
• Coordinate engineering release, drawing approval cycles, long‑lead procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing, customer acceptance, installation, and commissioning milestones per the standardized program workflow.
• Escalate schedule risks and cross-functional roadblocks promptly, with proposed mitigation paths.
• Maintain direct customer contact on program execution matters, while the Sales Account Executive remains the primary customer point of contact and owns customer communication and negotiation.
• Provide clear, proactive, and honest program status communications—schedule, milestones, risks, and change orders—to internal leadership and, in coordination with the Sales Account Executive, to the customer.
• Build strong working relationships with customer counterparts; understand their pain points, priorities, and success metrics.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Communication

Risk management

Critical-path thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline

Tools

Monday.com

Microsoft Project

PLM systems

Job description

Nortek Data Center Cooling is seeking a Program Manager to serve as the day-to-day cross-functional integrator for customer commitments on assigned programs. This hands-on role coordinates engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and service to meet schedule, cost, quality, and customer goals.

Reporting to the Vice President of Program Management, you will drive end-to-end program execution, manage risk, and maintain direct customer contact while Sales handles pricing strategy.