About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Automation Systems Construction Group

The Automation Systems Construction Group is responsible for the design, construction and support of cutting-edge data center automation and control infrastructure. The department collaborates with Sales, Engineering, Information Technology, Billing, Operations and Management to ensure the system continues to fulfill Vantage customer requirements. Automation Systems works closely with partner contractors to come up with the best design and helps manage these partners to success by providing accurate requirements, goals, and timelines. In addition to design and construction, we are also responsible for assuring the technical requirements of the Operations department are met.

Position Overview

This role can be based in any of our US locations, or US-Remote.

Vantage is looking for an experienced and detailed orientated Automation Technical Project Manager to support and facilitate the successful completion of projects for the Automation Systems group. Individuals will be a key contributor in facilitating cross-functional alignment with key project stakeholders for regionally assigned new and existing automation projects.

As a key contributor the position will manage and provide technical leadership regarding automation design, engineering, and construction interfacing. The ability to influence and foster consensus across teams at a regional level is critical to be successful in this role. A high-level understanding of system integration, project management, commissioning, and process execution is required to provide insightful project issue mitigation when challenges arise.

Essential Job Functions

• Leads automation design and engineering projects that align with business vision, strategy, and deployment within the company.

• Assist in the definition of automation project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

• Manage multiple automation technical project scopes, schedules, and stakeholder relations across the regions.

• Drive all aspects of automation activities related to new and existing project development through each of the design, engineering and construction phases.

• Manage automation technical responsibilities with the Engineer of Record and Design and Controls Systems Integrators.

• Manage automation design deliverable package coordination and updates with all applicable automation construction partners.

• Ensure adherence to the North American standards by the Engineer of Records and Design Systems Integrator.

• Provide automation system technical oversight and issue mitigation throughout design, engineering, and commissioning activities.

• Coordinate and support applicable FWT (Factory Witness Tests), and software bench testing and on-site point to for various projects.

• Provide remote or onsite project and vendor support ensuring a successful design and engineering delivery.

• Manage automation design, engineering, and programming/software deliverables (Specifications, IFC’s, SOO’s, PLC, SCADA, etc..), ensuring critical delivery milestones are maintained and in alignment with the master construction schedule.

• Provide and implement automation technical quality and accuracy control measure for projects.

• Lead and participate in weekly and/or daily automation engineering meetings for each applicable regional project.

• Additional duties as assigned by Management

Duties

• Lead regional Automation project design, engineering, and programming/software delivery.

• Support in developing and managing automation design, and engineering strategies.

• Develop technical task prioritization and scheduling for allocating resources and project timelines.

• Support and coordinate automation design and engineering requirements with internal and external partners.

• Evaluates progress on project(s) and tracks changes to schedule.

• Develops and maintains standard com