# Data Center Project Manager, Consultant

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: New Orleans, LA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we're looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers,supporting the world's leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies.

As a Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.

Your Impact:

- Lead teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through project completion;

- Lead the teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time;

- Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval;

- Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues;

- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public.

Responsibilities:

- Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes.

- Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action;

- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals;

- Provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members.

Who You Are: **Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree

- 3+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects

- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals;

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management

- Exceptional interpersonal skills

- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience

- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff

- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills

- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change

- Experience negotiating contract terms

- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools

- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines

- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)

- Experience in an engineering consulting environment

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management

- Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Engineering
- Construction Management
- Communication
- Leadership
- Risk Management
- Budgeting
- Scheduling
- Client Management

### Nice to have
- Project Management Professional certification
- Engineering Consulting Environment
- Project Planning
- Cost Management
- Schedule Management

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