Senior Automation Programs Lead, Center Delivery Hybrid

Vantage Data Centers LLC; Port Washington (WI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan (401k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Vantage Data Centers LLC in Port Washington, WI is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Automation Systems Delivery in North America. The role offers a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite, 2 days flexible) and focuses on delivering production-ready data center automation capabilities for new capacity and major expansions.

You will coordinate design reviews, procurement, system integrators, construction, and commissioning to ensure clear milestones, risks, and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Construction Management, Program Management, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 10+ years delivering complex technical, controls, infrastructure, or mission-critical programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing integrated hardware, software, network, vendor, construction, and commissioning dependencies.
• Strong knowledge of program governance, risk management, change control, schedule and cost management, and executive communication.
• Travel throughout North America is expected to be approximately 25%.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated program plans for BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLC, controls-network, and related automation workstreams across assigned projects.
• Translate technical and business requirements into scope, milestones, dependencies, decision points, readiness gates, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead delivery governance across internal teams, engineering firms, system integrators, contractors, and vendors; surface variance early and drive recovery plans.
• Manage program-level schedule, budget, commercial dependencies, risks, issues, changes, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate design reviews, submittals, factory and software testing, site integration, commissioning, turnover, and operational acceptance.
• Ensure configurations, code, documentation, asset data, cybersecurity requirements, training, and support models are complete before handoff.
• Make recommendations on sequencing, resource allocation, vendor performance, and technical-delivery tradeoffs; escalate decisions with material cost, schedule, reliability, or customer impact.
• Create repeatable delivery methods, templates, metrics, and lessons learned that improve predictability across the portfolio.
• Handle additional duties as assigned by Management.

Skills

Program governance

Risk management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management

Bachelor’s degree in Program Management

Tools

Ignition

Rockwell

Niagara

Job description

Vantage Data Centers LLC in Port Washington, WI is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Automation Systems Delivery in North America. The role offers a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite, 2 days flexible) and focuses on delivering production-ready data center automation capabilities for new capacity and major expansions.

You will coordinate design reviews, procurement, system integrators, construction, and commissioning to ensure clear milestones, risks, and acceptance criteria.