Senior Project Manager, Owner's Representative

Job Title

Senior Project Manager Owners Representative

Job Description Summary

AI Test & Integration Facility (Liquid Cooled Infrastructure)
Position Overview
The Senior Project Manager (SPM) acting as Owners Representative is responsible for leading delivery of an advanced AI test factory focused on the assembly integration and validation of liquid cooled AI server racks prior to deployment in production data centers. This role oversees planning design coordination construction commissioning and turnover of a highly technical MEP dominant facility operating at mission critical performance levels.
The SPM serves as the primary point of accountability for project execution ensuring cost schedule quality safety and operational readiness objectives are met while coordinating across internal stakeholders design consultants contractors equipment vendors and end users.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Owner Representation

• Act as the Owners Representative for all phases of project delivery from early planning through commissioning and handover.
• Establish project execution strategies aligned with operational requirements for AI rack assembly liquid cooling and test validation.
• Lead daytoday project governance decisionmaking and stakeholder alignment.

MEPFocused Execution

• Oversee MEPintensive scopes including highcapacity electrical distribution power quality controls and directtochip liquid cooling systems.
• Coordinate central utility plant infrastructure process cooling house air systems and test/validation environments that simulate datacenter operating conditions.
• Ensure systems are designed and installed to support highdensity loads burnin testing and repeatable commissioning processes.

Design & Engineering Management

• Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams (mechanical electrical lowvoltage controls structural and civil).
• Lead design reviews to ensure constructability sequencing and alignment with manufacturing and test workflows.
• Validate that design intent supports operations maintainability scalability and future technology upgrades.

Construction & Contractor Oversight

• Oversee general contractors trade partners and specialty vendors with emphasis on sequencing quality control and safety.
• Lead construction coordination in a fastpaced environment including work in partially active or startup conditions.
• Proactively identify and mitigate schedule risk scope gaps and cost exposureparticularly within MEP and systems integration scopes.

Schedule Cost and Risk Management

• Develop and manage detailed project schedules with clear milestones for equipment installation startup and testing.
• Lead cost control change management and forecasting efforts to maintain budget discipline.
• Maintain active risk and issue logs driving timely resolution and escalation when required.

Commissioning StartUp & Turnover

• Lead startup test balance and commissioning planning in coordination with owners vendors and contractors.
• Ensure all systems meet performance criteria prior to rack shipment and facility turnover.
• Oversee documentation asbuilts O&M manuals and readiness for operations and production use.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience as an Owners Rep or Senior Project Manager on complex industrial missioncritical or advanced manufacturing facilities.
• Strong background in MEPheavy projects including electrical power systems and process or liquid cooling infrastructure.
• Experience supporting commissioningdriven environments such as data centers semiconductor life sciences or advanced tech manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders in fasttrack highchange environments.
• Strong command of scheduling cost control contractor oversight and risk management fundamentals.
• Comfortable operating at both executive and field levels with a handson leadership style.

Role Characteristics

• Environment: Fastpaced technically complex and executionfocused
• Scope: MEPdominant commissioningdriven productionadjacent
• Leadership Style: Decisive collaborative detailoriented
• Ideal Background: Missioncritical data center or advanced manufacturing delivery

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health vision and dental insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and paid and unpaid time away from addition to a comprehensive benefits package Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire total hours worked job type business line and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement the geographic area in which the work will be performed market pay rates in that area and the candidates experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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