Senior Project Manager

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA) is seeking a Senior Project Manager - Chillers in Plano, TX for end-to-end management of centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects in North America.

You will coordinate with customers, consultants, EPC/MEP contractors, and internal teams to ensure safe, on-time, and on-budget delivery. The ideal candidate has 9+ years of experience, including 4+ years in centrifugal chillers, and a strong background in permits, safety, and regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• At least nine years of experience, with four years in centrifugal chillers and modular cooling plants.
• Experience managing customer-facing projects from order intake through handover.
• Ability to read GA drawings, P&IDs, electrical drawings, and control narratives.
• Knowledge of permit, inspection and safety processes (OSHA, JHA/JSA, LOTO, permit-to-work).
• Familiarity with NFPA 70 / NEC and local permitting processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end execution of centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects in North America, from order intake through final handover.
• Serve as primary project interface with customers, consultants, general contractors, EPC and MEP contractors, and internal teams.
• Lead regular project meetings, report status, escalate issues, and drive timely decisions.
• Define and manage project scope, deliverables, interfaces, and responsibilities across stakeholders.
• Maintain project governance: schedule, risk register, issue log, change log, and communication plan.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder interface

Risk management

Communication

Reading engineering drawings

Education

Bachelor’s in mechanical or electrical engineering, project management, or equivalent

Tools

Procore

Autodesk Construction Cloud

BIM 360

Primavera P6

Smartsheet

Bluebeam

Salesforce

SAP

Job description

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA) is looking for a Senior Project Manager - Chillers to join our team. This is a hybrid role based out of our Plano, Texas, location.

ABOUT MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AMERICA, INC. (MHIA):

For over 130 years, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group’s innovative and integrated solutions have demonstrated our commitment to creating a positive social impact around the globe. Our range of products and services is tailored to meet our customers’ evolving needs across the commercial aviation, energy, transportation and infrastructure, machinery, defense, and space systems sectors.

Our culture embraces diversity and cooperation, and we promote a healthy balance of professional and personal development, ensuring that your ideas and expertise are valued and respected.

SCOPE:

The Sr. Project Manager - Chillers is responsible for managing customer-facing centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects in North America from order intake through engineering, manufacturing, delivery, installation, commissioning, and final handover. Will serve as the primary project interface among customers, consultants, general contractors, EPC contractors, MEP contractors, and internal teams. The Project Manager is responsible for managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, change orders, documentation, stakeholder communication, customer expectations, and project execution performance to ensure safe, compliant, timely, and profitable project delivery. This role also coordinates with responsible stakeholders to support permit / local permitting, inspections, AHJ approval/acceptance, regulatory approval, compliance clearance (Customer/EOR/GC/AHJ/NRTL), construction and site safety (OSHA, JHA/JSA, LOTO, permit-to-work), UL/ETL/CSA/NRTL labeling and field evaluation/field labeling, environmental compliance, insurance requirements, FAT/SAT, commissioning requirements, and turnover/closeout requirements necessary for site delivery, installation, commissioning, and turnover. This position collaborates with global stakeholders across Japan and the U.S. to align priorities, enable effective execution, and support MHIA’s long-term business objectives.

The ideal candidate will have at least nine (9) years of experience, with at least four (4) of those years in centrifugal chillers and modular cooling plants.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Management & Stakeholder Interface

• Manage end-to-end execution of centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects in North America, from order intake through final handover.
• Serve as the primary project interface with customers, consultants, general contractors, EPC contractors, MEP contractors, and internal teams.
• Lead regular project meetings, report project status, escal critical issues, and drive timely decision-making.
• Define and manage project scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, interfaces, and responsibility boundaries (including responsibility split among Customer/EOR/GC/MEP and suppliers).
• Maintain and drive project governance: execution plan, schedule, action items, risk register, issue log, change log, communication plan, and decision log

Engineering, Manufacturing & Logistics Coordination

• Coordinate engineering deliverables, including GA drawings, P&IDs, electrical drawings, control narratives, sequence of operations, submittals, and technical documentation.
• Manage customer submittal, review, comment resolution, approval, and resubmission processes.
• Coordinate with manufacturing, procurement, engineering, quality, logistics, installation, commissioning, service, and aftermarket teams.
• Track equipment production schedules, factory milestones, FAT readiness, shipping readiness, and delivery commitments.
• Coordinate site delivery planning, including delivery windows, receiving requirements, unloading plans, laydown/storage needs, and site acceptance conditions.
• Coordinate site access requirements, including route constraints, road width, gates, turning radius, ground bearing capacity, crane access, and delivery staging.
• Support installation readiness, including site readiness checks, foundation readiness, and utility interface readiness (power, water, refrigerant, drainage, communications).
• Confirm foundation readiness (dimensions, levelness, load rating, anchor locations, grout plan) and utility interface readiness (connection points and readiness for electrical/mechanical/refrigerant/drain/controls).
• Coordinate turnover to commissioning by ensuring installation completion criteria, punch items, documentation readiness, and interface closures are met.

Risk Management, Compliance & Site Execution

• Identify, document, communicate, and mitigate project risks related to scope, schedule, cost, quality, compliance, logistics, installation, and commissioning.
• Coordinate permit / local permitting (building, electrical, mechanical, fire, environmental) and maintain a permit/inspection readiness plan with responsible stakeholders.
• Coordinate inspections (electrical, mechanical, fire, and final) and drive AHJ approval/acceptance in collaboration with Customer/EOR/GC and contractors.
• Drive regulatory approval and compliance clearance with Customer, EOR, GC, AHJ, and NRTL stakeholders, ensuring requirements are understood, assigned, and closed.
• Coordinate construction/site safety requirements, including OSHA, JHA/JSA, LOTO (electrical/pressure/fuel/refrigerant isolation), and permit-to-work controls (energization, lifting/rigging, hot work, etc.).
• Coordinate refrigerant compliance requirements, including EPA Section 608 considerations (recovery, leak management, service qualifications, records), as applicable to delivery and turnover.
• Coordinate UL/ETL/CSA/NRTL labeling and manage exceptions requiring field evaluation/field labeling for non-listed, imported, or field-modified equipment; elevate gaps and drive closure with manufacturer/EOR/AHJ/NRTL.
• Coordinate environmental compliance requirements, including refrigerants, stormwater/wastewater (construction discharge, blowdown, chemicals, oil-water separation), noise ordinance requirements (boundary/nighttime noise, silencers/acoustics), and SPCC / oil containment (lubricants/fuels and
• secondary containment.
• Coordinate water treatment requirements for cooling systems (chemicals, glycol, corrosion control, Legionella risk management) and align responsibility split across customer/EOR/GC and vendors.
• Coordinate FM Global/insurance requirements where applicable (fire protection, separation distances, containment provisions) and integrate them into execution and turnover packages.
• Coordinate FAT requirements (factory acceptance tests) and SAT requirements (site acceptance tests), including witness points, acceptance criteria, and test record control.
• Support commissioning and startup activities by coordinating commissioning requirements, documentation, punch list closure, customer readiness, third-party commissioning agents (CxA), and service teams.
• Maintain complete project documentation, including contracts, specifications, drawings, submittals, meeting minutes, issue logs, change logs, schedules, inspection records, FAT/SAT records, commissioning documentation, and turnover/closeout packages (O&M manuals, as-builts, test records, punch list, warranty handover).

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Bachelor’s in mechanical or electrical engineering, project management, or equivalent experience
• Experience: Minimum of nine (9) years of experience with at least four (4) years of experience in centrifugal chillers and modular cooling plants
• Experience managing customer-facing projects from order intake through engineering, manufacturing, delivery, installation, commissioning, and handover of centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, change orders, documentation, and stakeholder communication
• Ability to read and interpret customer specifications, contracts, GA drawings, P&IDs, electrical drawings, control narratives, sequence of operations, submittals, technical specifications, and installation manuals
• Demonstrated experience coordinating permit, inspection, AHJ approval/acceptance, regulatory approval, compliance clearance, OSHA, JHA/JSA, LOTO, permit-to-work, and construction safety processes with responsible stakeholders to support safe and compliant site delivery, installation, commissioning, and turnover
• Working knowledge of chillers, modular cooling plants, mechanical systems, electrical systems, controls, NFPA 70 / NEC, fire code requirements, mechanical code requirements, and local permitting processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with centrifugal chillers, modular cooling plants, cooling towers, pump skids, electrical skids, or data center infrastructure equipment
• Familiarity with UL/ETL/CSA/NRTL labeling requirements, UL 508A control panels, field evaluation processes, SCCR, NFPA 70 / NEC
• Experience with project management and construction tools such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, Primavera P6, Smartsheet, Bluebeam, Salesforce, SAP, or similar platforms
• PMP certification, OSHA-30 certification, or other relevant project management, construction safety, commissioning, or technical certification
• Familiarity with EPA Section 608 refrigerant compliance concepts and environmental compliance topics (stormwater/wastewater, SPCC/oil containment, noise ordinances, water treatment)

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Travel: 40%
• Standard Monday through Friday work week. Weekend/late night work if applicable.
• Lifting/physical requirements: Regularly required to sit for long periods, stand, walk, talk, and/or hear. Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds