Project Manager Data Center Rapid Deployment

Graebel Companies, Inc. is hiring a Project Manager to lead data center, rapid-deployment, and temporary-infrastructure projects from planning through launch, operational handover, and closeout. The role coordinates stakeholders, vendors, schedules, budgets, risks, and site-readiness work to deliver projects safely and on time.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project delivery: Manage assigned data centre, rapid-deployment and temporary-infrastructure projects from initiation and planning through execution, stabilisation, operational handover and closeout. Maintain clear ownership of scope, schedule, budget, milestones, dependencies and deliverables
• Build and maintain project controls: Develop practical project plans, schedules, workback plans, milestone trackers, responsibility matrices, readiness checklists, issue logs, risk registers, communication plans and project dashboards
• Coordinate site readiness and mobilisation: Bring together vendor mobilisation, asset and material delivery, temporary infrastructure, workforce accommodation, utilities, connectivity, transportation, food services, security, facilities support and operational handover
• Align stakeholders and delivery partners: Coordinate clients, internal teams, vendors, contractors, suppliers and site partners around responsibilities, decisions and interdependent workstreams
• Manage commercial and financial performance: Monitor budgets, forecasts, expenditure, invoices, change orders and cost implications with Finance and Procurement
• Manage risk, safety and change: Identify constraints, dependencies, safety considerations and delivery risks; maintain mitigation plans, manage change control and escalate blockers
• Provide clear project communication: Lead meetings and prepare concise status reports, leadership briefings, decision papers and escalation updates
• Drive quality, handover and continuous improvement: Monitor deliverables, service levels and punch-list items and complete closeout documentation, lessons learned and transition notes

Requirements:

• Ability to work effectively in high-pressure, schedule-sensitive environments
• Strong written and verbal communication, organisational and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, together with project-management or work-management tools
• At least four years of project management experience in data centres, mission-critical operations, construction, infrastructure, logistics, temporary facilities, remote-site operations, workforce housing, hospitality, facilities services, emergency response or rapid deployments
• Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules and budgets; vendors, contractors and multi-party workstreams; documentation and reporting; stakeholders; risks, issues and change
• Experience developing project plans, milestone trackers, risk and issue logs, status reports, leadership updates and closeout documentation
• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, operations, supply chain, project management or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience