Project Manager – Data Center Cooling & Modular Infrastructure

Zohorecruit; Fort Worth (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Wellness program

Paid time off

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Fort Worth, TX, is seeking a senior leader to manage complex engineering projects within data center cooling systems. The role starts with hands-on project execution and grows into program-level ownership across multiple projects, customers, and P&L responsibility.

The position is primarily onsite with some remote flexibility and travel about 20%. You'll coordinate across engineering, procurement, scheduling, manufacturing, and customer teams to deliver results in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; engineering degree not necessary.
• 7+ years of relevant project, program, technical, operational, or management experience in complex technical environments.
• Strong understanding of schedules, budgets, procurement, manufacturing, engineering milestones, project risk, and customer delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand technical products and engineered systems.
• Experience managing customer-facing projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Background in energy, data centers, thermal systems, industrial manufacturing, modular equipment, or engineering-intensive environment strongly preferred.
• Previous responsibility for multiple projects, portfolios, customer accounts, or programs is highly valued.
• P&L or significant financial ownership is strongly preferred.
• Prior people-management experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong communication, adaptability, judgment, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects directly while building a deep understanding of technical products, internal processes, and the full project lifecycle.
• Progress into ownership of a customer or account vertical containing multiple simultaneous projects.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, scheduling, manufacturing, production, and customer teams from project award through delivery.
• Maintain executive-level visibility into schedules, budgets, engineering milestones, procurement activity, manufacturing progress, risks, and customer commitments.
• Serve as a primary connection between data center customers and internal technical and operational teams.
• Provide strategic direction across multiple projects rather than focusing solely on individual project execution.
• Own or oversee program-level financial performance, including budgets, P&L, forecasts, and project health.
• Identify project and program risks early and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Develop strong customer relationships and maintain effective communication across changing priorities, technical issues, and execution challenges.
• Lead and develop project-management resources as the scope expands, including Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Assistant Project Managers.
• Help scale project-delivery practices as customer demand and data center cooling activity continue to expand.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

P&L management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Fort Worth, United States | Posted on 10/07/2026

Job Description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing organization supporting the expansion of mission-critical data center infrastructure. The business designs and manufactures custom modular cooling systems that move through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, delivery, and customer implementation. This team operates in a fast-paced, technically demanding environment where Program Managers connect customers with engineering, operations, procurement, scheduling, and manufacturing teams to keep complex projects moving.

This is a senior leadership-track opportunity for someone who can first establish credibility through hands-on project execution and then grow into broader responsibility for multiple projects, customer relationships, financial performance, and project teams.

What's In Store For You

• Primarily onsite in Fort Worth, TX , with the team generally working onsite five days per week.
  
• Occasional remote flexibility may be available based on business needs.
  
• Approximately 20% travel, primarily to customer and data center locations.
  
• Opportunity to transition from direct project execution into true program-level leadership.
  
• Exposure to highly customized, engineered cooling systems supporting major data center customers.
  
• Long-term scope includes broader customer/account ownership, P&L responsibility, multiple projects, and team leadership.
  
• Comprehensive health, retirement, wellness, insurance, and paid-time-off benefits.
  

How You Will Make An Impact

• Initially lead complex projects directly while building a deep understanding of technical products, internal processes, and the full project lifecycle.
  
• Progress into ownership of a customer or account vertical containing multiple simultaneous projects.
  
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, scheduling, manufacturing, production, and customer teams from project award through delivery.
  
• Maintain executive-level visibility into schedules, budgets, engineering milestones, procurement activity, manufacturing progress, risks, and customer commitments.
  
• Serve as a primary connection between data center customers and internal technical and operational teams.
  
• Provide strategic direction across multiple projects rather than focusing solely on individual project execution.
  
• Own or oversee program-level financial performance, including budgets, P&L, forecasts, and project health.
  
• Identify project and program risks early and drive cross-functional resolution.
  
• Develop strong customer relationships and maintain effective communication across changing priorities, technical issues, and execution challenges.
  
• Lead and develop project-management resources as the scope expands, including Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Assistant Project Managers.
  
• Help scale project-delivery practices as customer demand and data center cooling activity continue to expand.
  

Requirements

Do You Have the Expertise to Lead Complex Technical Programs?

• Bachelor's degree required; an engineering degree is not necessary.
  
• 7+ years of relevant project, program, technical, operational, or management experience in complex technical environments.
  
• Strong understanding of schedules, budgets, procurement, manufacturing, engineering milestones, project risk, and customer delivery.
  
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand technical products and engineered systems.
  
• Experience managing customer-facing projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Background in energy, data centers, thermal systems, industrial manufacturing, modular equipment, or another engineering-intensive environment strongly preferred.
  
• Previous responsibility for multiple projects, portfolios, customer accounts, or programs is highly valued.
  
• P&L or significant financial ownership is strongly preferred.
  
• Prior people-management experience is strongly preferred.
  
• Strong Senior Project Managers ready to step into Program Management will also be considered.
  
• Military leadership experience in technically demanding environments is viewed favorably.
  
• Strong communication, adaptability, judgment, and cross-functional leadership skills.
  
• Comfortable working primarily onsite in Fort Worth and traveling approximately 20%.