Senior Project Manager - Chiller

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; Carrollton (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA) is seeking a Senior Project Manager - Chillers to lead customer-facing centrifugal chiller and modular cooling plant projects across North America from order intake through commissioning.

This hybrid role is based in Plano, Texas, and requires expertise in coordinating engineering, manufacturing, and site activities, managing scope, schedule, and budget while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end centrifugal chiller/modular cooling plant projects in North America from order intake to handover.
• Interface with customers, consultants, general contractors, EPC, MEP, and internal teams.
• Lead meetings, report status, elevate issues, and drive timely decisions.
• Define scope, deliverables, interfaces, and responsibility boundaries among Customer/EOR/GC/MEP and suppliers.
• Ensure customer satisfaction, schedule adherence, quality, and handover to service/aftermarket.
• Maintain governance artifacts: execution plan, schedule, risk and issue logs, change log, and comms plan.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables (GA drawings, P&IDs, electrical drawings, control narratives).
• Manage submittals, reviews, approvals, and resubmissions.
• Coordinate with manufacturing, procurement, engineering, quality, logistics, installation, commissioning and service.
• Track production schedules, factory milestones, FAT readiness, shipping readiness, and delivery commitments.
• Coordinate site delivery planning, including windows, receiving, unloading, laydown, and acceptance conditions.
• Coordinate site access, route constraints, gates, turning radius, crane access, and staging.
• Support installation readiness, including foundation readiness and utility interface readiness.
• Confirm foundation readiness and utility interfaces for electrical/mechanical/refrigerant/drains.
• Coordinate turnover to commissioning by ensuring installation completion criteria and documentation readiness.

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. The Project Manager serves as the primary project interface among customers, consultants, general contractors, EPC contractors, MEP contractors, and internal teams. He/she 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. The 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, including at least four (4) years in centrifugal chillers and modular cooling plants. MHIA regrets that it cannot sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.

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, elevate 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).
• Ensure customer satisfaction, schedule adherence, quality performance, and successful handover to service and aftermarket teams.
• 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