Senior Data Center Fit-Out Project Manager

Jobtailor; Minooka (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Data Center Fit-Out Project Manager to lead customer-facing projects from initiation through turnover in mission-critical environments. You will manage budgets, schedules, stakeholders, and vendor teams, ensuring alignment with client requirements and contract terms.

You will drive planning, coordinate design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, maintain risk logs, change controls, and executive updates, and ensure safety, quality, and

Qualifications

• Typically 5+ years of direct experience managing customer-facing data center fit-out projects.
• Typically 10+ years of total experience in data center development, design, construction, commissioning, or project delivery.
• Proven experience delivering projects within mission-critical or live data center environments.
• Experience serving as the primary customer-facing representative on complex construction projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing schedules, budgets, contractors, consultants, and customer stakeholders.
• Strong experience in contract administration, change order management, and scope control.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders across design, construction, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong understanding of construction project delivery.
• Working knowledge of data center infrastructure.
• Knowledge of medium-voltage electrical distribution systems.
• Knowledge of utility service coordination.
• Knowledge of backup power systems.
• Knowledge of mechanical cooling infrastructure.
• Knowledge of critical facility construction practices.
• Knowledge of customer white space fit-out delivery.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to lead meetings and present to senior leadership and customers.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Exceptional planning and scheduling skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and evaluate risks.
• Preferred: Colocation data center experience.
• Preferred: Hyperscale or mission-critical facility experience.
• Preferred: Experience delivering customer fit-outs concurrently with active base building construction programs.
• Preferred: Experience working within operational data center environments.
• Familiarity with Procore, Smartsheet, Primavera P6, and/or Microsoft Project.
• Experience supporting commissioning and turnover activities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the fit-out lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain trusted customer relationships through proactive communication and timely issue resolution.
• Lead customer meetings and maintain meeting minutes, decision logs, risk registers, and action item trackers.
• Manage customer expectations regarding scope, schedule, budget, and delivery milestones.
• Provide regular project updates and executive-level status reporting.
• Manage customer fit-out projects from initiation through turnover and occupancy.
• Develop, maintain, and drive detailed project schedules.
• Coordinate design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Monitor project risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ensure project milestones and customer commitments are achieved.
• Lead change order review, negotiation, documentation, and approval processes.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, cost impacts, and customer-requested scope changes.
• Ensure contract compliance and maintain proper project controls.
• Coordinate and track project financial impacts associated with customer modifications.
• Maintain records supporting project cost and schedule decisions.
• Coordinate contractors, consultants, commissioning agents, and internal Equinix stakeholders.
• Monitor construction activities for safety, quality, and compliance.
• Resolve field issues, RFIs, design conflicts, and schedule impacts.
• Drive accountability across project teams and vendors.
• Ensure project documentation is accurate, current, and readily available.
• Maintain working knowledge of mission-critical facility infrastructure.
• Support decisions related to electrical, mechanical, and architectural systems.
• Coordinate technical reviews with subject matter experts.
• Evaluate design and construction impacts relative to customer requirements.

Skills

Data Center Project Management

Stakeholder Coordination

Budget Management

Contract Administration

Change Order Management

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or related field

Tools

Procore

Smartsheet

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Data Center Fit-Out Project Manager to lead customer-facing projects from initiation through turnover in mission-critical environments. You will manage budgets, schedules, stakeholders, and vendor teams, ensuring alignment with client requirements and contract terms.

You will drive planning, coordinate design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, maintain risk logs, change controls, and executive updates, and ensure safety, quality, and