Remote Data Center Project Manager — Mission-Critical Ops

Meriton; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Meriton is seeking a Technical Project Manager for Data Center Field Services. This role leads commissioning, startup, and service projects with a focus on clear stakeholder communication, risk management, and on-time, on-budget delivery across distributed teams.

You will manage multi-site projects, coordinate with customers, contractors, OEMs, and internal teams, and drive closeout with formal documentation. A technical background in data centers or related infra is preferred.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of PM experience in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven primary contact for customers, contractors, field and executives.
• Ability to de-escalate conflict and manage difficult conversations.
• Strong collaboration across teams and ability to influence outcomes.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, schedules, risks, budgets, and documentation.
• Excellent written communication and meeting leadership.
• Knowledge of time-and-material and milestone-based billing, change management and documentation.
• Proficiency with Excel and project tracking tools.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary hands-on PM contact for assigned projects and maintain consistent communication with customers, general contractors, commissioning agents, OEM representatives, site leadership, and internal teams.
• Lead project meetings and difficult conversations with clear agendas, accurate status, documented decisions, assigned actions, and timely follow-through.
• Recognize emerging conflict early; listen to stakeholder concerns, clarify facts and expectations, reduce tension, and develop a mutually understood path forward.
• Communicate technical, schedule, resource, and commercial impacts clearly without overpromising, assigning blame, or allowing issues to remain ambiguous.
• Escalate at the appropriate time and level while retaining ownership of project impact, stakeholder communication, tracking, and final resolution.
• Establish and maintain the project execution plan, master schedule, milestones, dependencies, site-readiness requirements, ROMP sequencing, and short-term look-ahead plan.
• Identify project risks early, establish mitigation and recovery actions, and drive issues through documented closure.
• Maintain accurate project status, action logs, risk and issue logs, decision records, deliverables, and stakeholder commitments.
• Coordinate quality requirements, punch-list completion, turnover documentation, customer acceptance, lessons learned, and formal closeout.
• Collaborate with Sales Project Managers to ensure continuity from commercial handoff through field execution and closeout.
• Partner with Production Coordinators and Project Controls Coordinators on resource visibility, mobilization readiness, documentation, reporting, data accuracy, and follow-up.
• Work closely with Field Operations Managers on technician availability, qualifications, field constraints, and personnel matters while respecting Field Operations ownership of people management and final staffing decisions.
• Partner with OEM Program Managers on systemic equipment issues, manufacturer alignment, technical standards, and program-level escalations while retaining ownership of project-specific impact and communication.
• Engage Site Leads as critical field-execution partners, maintaining two-way communication and ensuring field realities are reflected in project plans and stakeholder updates.
• Define project resource requirements, timing, qualifications, and duration; communicate demand early and manage schedule or customer impacts when constraints arise.
• Track project performance, labor utilization, travel, materials, forecast versus actual results, and potential cost or margin exposure.
• Manage scope changes, delays, acceleration requests, rework, and out-of-scope activity; ensure impacts are documented and appropriate authorization or change orders are obtained.
• Protect F6 from unauthorized work, untracked labor, unsupported commitments, and avoidable commercial exposure.
• Ensure billing readiness through accurate field records, signed documentation, milestone acceptance, T&M support, quantities, and approved change documentation.
• Promote a safety-first execution culture and ensure project plans align with company, customer, and site safety requirements.
• Address safety or quality concerns promptly and coordinate the appropriate operational or technical response.
• Identify repeatable improvements to communication, planning, project controls, escalation, and closeout processes as the organization scales.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

De-escalation

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-project management

Written communication

Billing & administration

Excel & project tools

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Project tracking tools

Field service platforms

Job description

Meriton is seeking a Technical Project Manager for Data Center Field Services. This role leads commissioning, startup, and service projects with a focus on clear stakeholder communication, risk management, and on-time, on-budget delivery across distributed teams.

You will manage multi-site projects, coordinate with customers, contractors, OEMs, and internal teams, and drive closeout with formal documentation. A technical background in data centers or related infra is preferred.