At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 15 rankings in ENR. With over 70 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

Position Summary:

The Senior Project Manager will support the data hall portion of a new-build data center project in Fort Worth, Texas. This role will lead customer-specific construction and fit-out activities, coordinating design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover to ensure scope, schedule, budget, and operational readiness requirements are met. Come join our team!

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead customer-specific construction and fit-out scope within large-scale data center projects.

• Coordinate customer requirements with design, engineering, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations teams.

• Manage scope, budget, schedule, procurement, risk, and change management through turnover.

• Review customer requirements and impacts to architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, security, and life-safety systems.

• Lead design coordination and technical reviews with customers, consultants, contractors, and internal teams.

• Develop scopes of work, bid packages, cost estimates, and procurement plans.

• Manage change orders, commercial impacts, and cost recovery related to customer-driven changes.

• Track long-lead equipment and materials and drive procurement to protect project milestones.

• Coordinate field execution with General Contractors, trade partners, vendors, commissioning teams, and customer representatives.

• Monitor progress, critical-path activities, and project risks; drive mitigation and recovery plans as needed.

• Serve as a primary customer interface throughout construction, commissioning, and turnover.

• Lead punch list, closeout, documentation, and operational readiness activities.

• Provide regular reporting on cost, schedule, procurement, risk, and key customer commitments.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

Experience managing data center, mission-critical, industrial, or other complex construction projects.

Strong understanding of data center design, construction, fit-out, commissioning, and turnover.

Experience managing projects from design through construction and operational handoff.

Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, controls, security, and other critical systems.

Experience with budgets, cost estimates, contracts, change orders, procurement, and commercial negotiations.

Strong knowledge of construction sequencing, scheduling, long-lead procurement, and risk management.

Ability to manage contractors, consultants, vendors, and multidisciplinary project teams.

Strong customer-facing communication, leadership, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced construction environment.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• 6+ years of construction project management experience, including mission-critical or data center projects.

• Proven experience managing projects through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.

• Knowledge of data center electrical, mechanical, and critical infrastructure systems.

• Experience managing contractors, consultants, budgets, schedules, and stakeholder relationships.

• Data center experience highly preferred.

Preferred Education and Experience:

Education: BS in Construction, Engineering, or related field

Experience: 8+ years experience in project management, preferably on data center builds.

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All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.

In addition to base salary, Cumming Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• 401(k) Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Short and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program