Data Center Mechanical Technical Program Manager (Remote)

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

• Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
• Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
• We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

We are currently seeking a "Data Center Mechanical Technical Program Manager " to oversee the design of Post Facility Ready mechanical system upgrades and retrofits. This will include building design teams from internal stakeholders and external partners/providers, facilitating the creation of a shared execution plan, and overseeing design services provided by an external design team in support of construction activities. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of mission critical design and construction, as well as new product development and insertion.

What you’ll do
* Proactively identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria. Estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support those objectives within an organization.
* Effectively monitor and communicate progress and risks. Propose mitigation plans, and align stakeholders on de-risking strategies.
* Measure and publish program and process metrics to drive consensus in teams’ understanding of issues and to drive decision-making.
* Seek out and apply relevant best practices from other processes and technologies.
* Organize ambiguous projects into clear longer-term (6+ months) objectives.
* Build effective program teams within and across an organization. Understand and address their needs to support them throughout their life cycles.
* Guide alignment on timelines, goals, and deliverables of related projects and teams.
* Manage escalations and unblock obstacles.
* Break down programs and processes into components that could be executed by less senior team members.
* Independently design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications.
* Articulately represent the program across touchpoints.
* Independently determine program phasing and metrics that effectively address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship.
* Optimize regular checkpoints and metrics dashboards.
* Ensure stakeholders are aligned on rationale for program pivots.
* Independently determine and collect data required to govern programs and effectively drive stakeholder decision-making.
* Independently maintain project trackers and status reports.
* Identify and execute program tasks, including proactively managing dependencies, while incorporating Product Excellence values, Product Inclusion, and brand trust and reputation.
* Define program governance structure by determining effective management of mitigations, postmortems, and escalation reports.
* Lead effective program stakeholder meetings.
* Independently develop change management rollout plans for programs including impact analysis.
* Across multiple teams, independently define, lead, and own program charter(s) that address scope, and timeline, OKRs, resourcing and risks/dependencies of moderately complex programs.
* Translate ambiguous program goals into clear and measurable objectives/milestones.
* Create project plans that break down a project into discrete phases aligned to the needs of stakeholders, include risks/dependencies, and support proactive identification of program constraints.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
* Preferred: Master's Degree and / or Professional Engineer (PE) license.
* Minimum 10 years experience in Mechanical Engineering.
* Need industrial or commercial HVAC experience.

Preferred Experience
* Experience in evaporative and air based process chilled water cooling systems.
* Thorough understanding of mechanical engineering principles, practices, and related technical areas.
* Knowledge of industry construction methods and techniques.
* Ideally we would want someone who is familiar with mechanical cooling systems
* Ideally we are looking for someone who has been in construction or operations of large commercial buildings high rise, data centers, semi conductor, industrial processes etc.
* Possess advanced planning and communication management skills. Able to apply these skills in difficult situations.
* Proficiency in continuous improvement, execution, organizational change, and stakeholder management. Able to apply these skills in typical situations with minimal guidance.

Additional Information

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.


• Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.


• Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.


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