Program Manager

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🌽 Illinois, Oklahoma – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Nortek Data Center Cooling

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201 - 500 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

⚡ Energy

Manufacturing • Hardware • Energy

Nortek Data Center Cooling is a provider of integrated air and liquid cooling systems for data centers, delivering built-to-spec hardware and turnkey solutions that reduce water and power usage while supporting rapid deployment for hyperscale and AI computing environments. The company offers end-to-end engineering, tested CDU/CRAH/RDHX products and hybrid fluid cooling plants, with global reach and a focus on improving energy efficiency, lowering total cost of ownership, and meeting the needs of large enterprise and cloud operators.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end execution of assigned customer programs from opportunity identification through product commissioning • Build, maintain, and drive integrated program schedules across engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly, test, shipping, installation, and commissioning • Lead recurring program cadence meetings and drive ownership, decisions, and follow-through • Coordinate engineering releases, drawing approvals, procurement, manufacturing, testing, customer acceptance, installation, and commissioning milestones • Escalate schedule risks and cross-functional roadblocks with mitigation paths • Maintain direct customer contact on program execution matters and provide proactive status communications • Manage program-level P&L execution, revenue, margin, cost, cash, schedule, change orders, and overall performance • Manage change orders, monitor contract obligations, and ensure customer commitments are met • Maintain program risk registers and drive critical risks to closure • Coordinate installation, commissioning, field resources, parts, support plans, warranty issues, and customer concerns • Lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Test, Commercial, Finance, and Service • Partner with Production Planning and Supply Chain on material readiness and manufacturing capacity • Use standardized program management processes and identify improvements that reduce rework and delays • Contribute lessons learned to strengthen Program Management capability

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline; equivalent experience considered • 5+ years of progressive program or project management experience, ideally in an engineer-to-order or complex manufacturing environment • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority • Working command of program management methodologies and tools, such as Monday.com, Microsoft Project, and PLM systems • Experience managing customer relationships and communicating program status directly with external stakeholders • Strong critical-path thinking, risk management discipline, and organizational skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent programs • Preferred PMP® certification or equivalent • Experience owning program-level P&L execution, change orders, and contract execution • Direct experience with engineered-to-order capital equipment or B2B custom manufacturing, including installation and commissioning coordination • Experience supporting hyperscale data center customers or other rapidly scaling B2B end markets