Data Center Transitions Project Manager

🕒 May 14

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Salute

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

🏢 Enterprise

⚡ Energy

Data Center • Enterprise • Energy

Salute is a global leader in providing integrated lifecycle services for data centers, focusing on operational excellence, sustainability, and scalable infrastructure solutions. With over 30 services ranging from design, build, operate, to refresh, Salute supports clients through every stage of their data center journey. The company serves a wide-reaching market, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, and enterprise data center operators across North America, South America, and EMEA regions.

📋 Description

• Support the Account Operations Director in planning and executing transitions from pre-mobilization through operational handover. • Develop and maintain transition project plans covering scope, schedule, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, action items, and deliverables. • Coordinate transition activities across operations, HR, recruiting, finance, safety, training, procurement, engineering, compliance, vendors, and client stakeholders. • Maintain the transition checklist so technical, operational, safety, staffing, training, documentation, and handoff requirements are assigned, tracked, and completed. • Support go-live planning, readiness reviews, formal handover, transition closeout, and lessons learned. • Own day-to-day tracking of deliverables, due dates, dependencies, open issues, decisions, and required leadership actions. • Prepare project status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, meeting materials, and client-facing updates. • Maintain the milestone tracker, risk register, issue log, action item tracker, readiness checklist, and transition calendar. • Document meeting notes, decisions, risks, blockers, and follow-up actions with clear ownership and due dates. • Provide timely visibility to leadership on project health, upcoming milestones, schedule risks, and required decisions. • Track readiness for staffing, onboarding, training, site access, vendor mobilization, safety requirements, CMMS setup, reporting, and procedure development. • Coordinate with site leadership and subject matter experts to identify operational gaps that could affect go-live readiness. • Serve as a communication link between the transition team, Account Operations Director, site leaders, client representatives, vendors, and internal departments. • Facilitate transition meetings, workstream updates, stand-ups, readiness reviews, and follow-up discussions. • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders; simplify complex issues into actionable decisions. • Support governance routines, audit readiness, quality reviews, executive reviews, and continuous improvement of playbooks and templates.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in data center operations, critical facilities, building engineering, facilities maintenance, project coordination, transition management, or related mission-critical environments. • Prior experience as a data center building engineer, critical facilities technician, operations engineer, facilities engineer, project coordinator, or similar role strongly preferred. • Strong project management, scheduling, tracking, organization, and follow-through skills. • Ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, priorities, stakeholders, and dependencies at the same time. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including status reports, meeting notes, trackers, dashboards, and executive updates. • Working knowledge of data center critical infrastructure systems, including electrical distribution, UPS systems, generators, cooling systems, controls/BMS, fire/life safety, and maintenance processes. • Ability to work effectively with operations leaders, technicians, clients, vendors, HR, finance, safety, engineering, procurement, and executives. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and project tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, Smartsheet, SharePoint, MS Project, Gantt charts, and action trackers.

🏖️ Benefits

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy 8 company-paid holidays , 2 floating holidays , and PTO so you can rest, celebrate, and take care of what matters most. • Comprehensive Benefits Package: Including Medical, Dental, and Vision that you can enroll in starting on Day 1. Coverage begins the first of the month following 30-days of employment. • Peace of Mind: The Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees, even if you do not participate in the benefits package. • Your financial future matters: Enjoy our employer-supported 401(K) with immediate 100% vesting, plus a 3% employer match and a 50% match on the next 2%. • Wellness Support: Access to HSA , mental health resources, and gym discounts —because your health matters. • Extra Protection & Perks: Through discounted group programs, such as legal services , home & auto insurance , pet insurance , and ID theft protection for life’s unexpected moments.