Job Description:
Apex Systems is currently looking for a Data Center Project Manager for a remote opportunity with a Fortune 100 Technology client.
**For immediate consideration, please email your most updated resume to Alex: awoolwine@apexsystems.com* and Sam: slwade@apexsystems.com*
Please note that only qualified applicants will be considered for this role
Job Title: Data Center PM
Duration: 3+ year contract
Rate: $60-$95/hr, dependent on experience
Location: Remote - 10-30% travel required
Design Project Manager II
Location & Travel
· Remote, with preference for NYC-based candidates
· Travel required: 10–30%
Role Overview
The Design Project Manager leads the design process from early campus planning through construction documentation. This includes:
· Building and managing cross-functional design teams (internal + external)
· Overseeing design services from developer partners
· Ensuring alignment between design, procurement, and construction
Key Responsibilities
· Facilitate workshops and design reviews
· Author and manage scopes of work and contracts
· Track project metrics: cost, schedule, scope, progress
· Coordinate design with procurement and construction
· Lead change management and technical decision-making
· Ensure timely and accurate delivery of engineering information
· Author scopes of work for contracts and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders
· Issue and administer contracts
· Define and track deliverables from various parties
· Track of cost, schedule, progress and scope
· Provide health reporting on cost, schedule, scope and progress
· Build optimal design teams from matrixed internal stakeholders and the strategic procurement of external partners
· Change management for project scope and design contracts
· Facilitate technical decisions in-line with project needs
· Ensure the issuance of engineering information to the right party, at the right time, in the right format
Requirements
· Education: Bachelor’s in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related
· Licensure: PE, NCARB, RA preferred (or 15+ years of experience)
· Experience:
o 7+ years in design/construction project management
o Data center experience preferred; other acceptable sectors:
§ Healthcare (hospitals)
§ High-rise commercial
§ Labs
§ Manufacturing (fabs)
§ High-power facilities (e.g., power plants)
· Strong understanding of construction principles and practices
· Experience managing and coordinating between teams
· Experience in the preparation of project plans, specifications
· Experience drafting scopes of work
· Experience of government regulations
· Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
