Field Project Manager - Data Center Liquid Cooling
$170k - $210k
Senior
Bachelor's
Phoenix, AZ, USA
HybridRequires approximately 50% travel to project sites nationwide.
Architecture & Civil EngineeringConstruction Management
About the job
Requirements
- Seven or more years of project, construction, or technical management experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, mechanical construction, or mechanical, electrical, and plumbing construction.
- Demonstrated experience managing liquid cooling projects in hyperscale, artificial intelligence, or other high-density data centers.
- Practical knowledge of direct-to-chip cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, coolant distribution units, manifolds, piping, pumps, heat exchangers, filtration, controls, and related systems.
- Experience overseeing installation, filling, flushing, filtration, pressure and leak testing, commissioning, and turnover.
- Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, specifications, submittals, schematics, and construction documents and identify constructability issues.
- Experience coordinating subcontractors, manufacturers, commissioning agents, and other trades.
- Strong understanding of data center white-space construction and the relationship between cooling systems and information technology infrastructure.
- Strong project management skills across scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, documentation, and subcontractor performance.
- Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50% throughout the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead data center liquid cooling projects from design coordination through installation, commissioning, and turnover.
- Oversee direct-to-chip cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, technology cooling loops, coolant distribution units, manifolds, piping, pumps, heat exchangers, filtration, and related infrastructure.
- Integrate cooling systems with server racks, information technology equipment, power distribution, containment, overhead infrastructure, and other white-space systems.
- Manage scope, schedule, budget, procurement, subcontractors, vendors, quality, and documentation.
- Serve as the technical liaison among the company, clients, engineers, contractors, manufacturers, commissioning agents, and other stakeholders.
- Review designs, drawings, submittals, specifications, equipment selections, and vendor proposals for functionality, constructability, maintainability, and compliance with project requirements.
- Evaluate system capacity, flow, pressure, redundancy, controls, connections, and integration with information technology equipment.
- Coordinate with engineers, subcontractors, and field teams to identify design conflicts, installation constraints, and technical risks, then translate requirements into practical solutions.
- Participate in design reviews, building information modeling coordination, and technical evaluations.
- Direct mechanical subcontractors, specialty installers, construction managers, and field personnel during liquid cooling installation.
- Verify compliance with approved documents, manufacturer requirements, and project quality standards.
- Coordinate piping, equipment connections, rack interfaces, controls, leak detection, power, and supporting infrastructure.
- Monitor quality, conduct field inspections and punch-list activities, and resolve deficiencies before commissioning or turnover.
- Coordinate filling, flushing, filtration, cleaning, pressure and leak testing, startup, functional testing, and integrated systems testing.
- Review commissioning plans, procedures, performance tests, and documentation with contractors, manufacturers, commissioning agents, and operators.
- Troubleshoot issues, coordinate corrective actions, and verify system readiness for high-density information technology equipment before turnover.
- Evaluate manufacturers, distributors, contractors, installers, and commissioning firms based on technical capability, experience, methodology, capacity, schedule, and commercial considerations.
- Review proposals and technical information, support equipment and material procurement, and maintain industry relationships.
- Coordinate liquid cooling with electrical distribution, busway, power distribution units, rack power, structured cabling, telecommunications, controls, containment, overhead supports, and other white-space infrastructure.
- Assess interdependencies among cooling capacity, electrical capacity, rack density, information technology equipment, and supporting systems, and resolve cross-discipline conflicts.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with hyperscale, artificial intelligence, NVIDIA graphics processing units, or other high-density compute environments.
- Experience with coolant distribution units, liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers, facility water systems, secondary cooling loops, rack manifolds, quick disconnects, direct-to-chip distribution, rear-door heat exchangers, and technology cooling loops.
- Experience with liquid cooling commissioning and integrated systems testing.
- Experience with a data center general contractor, mechanical or mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractor, equipment manufacturer, or specialty liquid cooling contractor.
- Knowledge of data center electrical distribution, structured cabling, and telecommunications infrastructure.
- Experience with Procore or a similar construction management platform.
- Project Management Professional credential or equivalent project management credential.
- An engineering degree or professional engineer license.
About the company
Align Communications provides technology infrastructure solutions globally, focusing on managed IT services, cybersecurity risk management, and data center deployment. Its offerings span IT advisory and assessment, design and deployment of data centers, and ongoing optimization through a managed services model. How it works: Align tailors end-to-end solutions for each client, starting with IT assessments and strategic roadmaps, then designing, deploying, and managing data center and IT environments, while continuously monitoring and improving security and performance. How it differs from competitors: With over 30 years of experience, Align combines advisory services, end-to-end data center lifecycle support, and rigorous cybersecurity risk management into a single provider, emphasizing customized plans for organizations of all sizes. Its goal: help clients build reliable, secure, and efficient technology infrastructure so they can focus on their core business activities.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1986
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Vacation
- Performance Bonus