Senior Data Center & Infrastructure Project Manager

EPITEC; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 69,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

EPITEC is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to oversee a portfolio of enterprise data center and infrastructure initiatives in Dearborn, MI. This long-term W2 contract role requires coordinating across IT, facilities, engineering, and vendors to deliver multi-year modernization programs in mission-critical environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership with strong communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including budgeting, governance, and executive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Project Management experience leading enterprise infrastructure or technology initiatives.
• Experience managing data center, network, facilities, or infrastructure-related projects.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects across cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure environments and data center operations.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, and vendor contracts.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as MS Project and Jira.
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with technical teams, facilities personnel, vendors, and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of data center and infrastructure initiatives, including modernization, technology refreshes, migrations, remediation efforts, and facility upgrades.
• Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects supporting a multi-year infrastructure roadmap.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, dependencies, resource plans, budgets, and executive-level reporting.
• Coordinate activities across IT infrastructure, networking, facilities, operations, engineering, security, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Drive projects involving: DCIM migration and data center modernization
• UPS, PDU, and backup power system replacements
• HVAC and cooling infrastructure upgrades
• Network infrastructure deployments and refreshes
• Establish project governance, communication plans, status reporting, steering committee reviews, and stakeholder alignment.
• Own RAID management, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Coordinate site readiness activities including access management, safety planning, maintenance windows, outage coordination, and operational readiness.
• Manage vendor and contractor relationships, including purchase orders, SOWs, schedules, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and quality oversight.
• Drive scope management and change control while balancing business priorities, technical requirements, timelines, and budget considerations.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement on project estimates, purchase orders, invoice validation, forecasting, and budget management.
• Present project status, risks, milestones, and recommendations to program leadership and executive stakeholders.

Skills

Excel

Jira

MS Project

Stakeholder management

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Job description

EPITEC is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to oversee a portfolio of enterprise data center and infrastructure initiatives in Dearborn, MI. This long-term W2 contract role requires coordinating across IT, facilities, engineering, and vendors to deliver multi-year modernization programs in mission-critical environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership with strong communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including budgeting, governance, and executive