Project Manager - Data Center Services
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- Size: 10,000+ employees
- Industry: Manufacturing
Project Manager - Data Center
Overview
Join Schneider Electric's Data Center Services (DCS) team as a Project Manager - Data Center, where you will serve as the primary point of contact for key customers and lead projects from kickoff through completion. This role is critical to delivering the high-touch, "white glove" experience expected by some of our highest-value clients. You will be responsible for driving successful project outcomes while balancing customer satisfaction, project execution, team coordination, and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
What's in it for me?
Ready to drive project excellence? We'd love to hear from you!
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: "We see you. We value you". It's more than just pay and benefits- it's a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 101,600 - USD 152,400 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you'll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation , youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
If you believe this job posting is not compliant with applicable state pay transparency laws in the U.S., please notify the Company as soon as possible upon discovery by completing this form Job Posting Compliance Form .
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and 'inclusion' is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
Overview
Join Schneider Electric's Data Center Services (DCS) team as a Project Manager - Data Center, where you will serve as the primary point of contact for key customers and lead projects from kickoff through completion. This role is critical to delivering the high-touch, \"white glove\" experience expected by some of our highest-value clients. You will be responsible for driving successful project outcomes while balancing customer satisfaction, project execution, team coordination, and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
Overview
Join Schneider Electric's Data Center Services (DCS) team as a Project Manager - Data Center, where you will serve as the primary point of contact for key customers and lead projects from kickoff through completion. This role is critical to delivering the high-touch, "white glove" experience expected by some of our highest-value clients. You will be responsible for driving successful project outcomes while balancing customer satisfaction, project execution, team coordination, and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
- Lead end-to-end execution of customer projects, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, compliance, and delivery.
- Manage both Capex and Opex projects within complex customer environments.
- Coordinate local and global teams across mono-technology and multi-system integration projects.
- Serve as the primary customer contact and trusted advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
- Drive project schedules and ensure milestones are met on time and within budget.
- Lead customer site meetings and internal project coordination meetings.
- Facilitate internal and external quality reviews to ensure successful project delivery.
- Act as a resource for technical questions, issue resolution, and project escalation management.
- Foster strong customer relationships through proactive communication and exceptional service.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance project execution processes.
- Project Management: Coordinate resources, schedules, budgets, risks, and deliverables across complex customer projects.
- Customer Orientation: Deliver a best-in-class customer experience and build lasting client relationships.
- Communication: Lead clear and effective communication with customers, subcontractors, internal teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify challenges and develop mitigation plans to protect project timelines, budgets, and customer commitments.
- Decision Making: Make informed decisions that keep projects aligned with customer expectations and business objectives.
- Analytical Thinking: Utilize project data and metrics to drive informed actions and continuous improvement.
- Operational Efficiency: Improve processes and execution strategies while maintaining quality standards.
- Prioritization: Effectively balance competing demands, deadlines, customer requests, and stakeholder needs.
- Passion for issue resolution and ownership of customer challenges.
- Strong commitment to customer satisfaction and project success.
- Ability to independently manage projects while leveraging available support resources.
- Self-motivated learner with a willingness to develop expertise in products, systems, and procedures.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
- Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.
- Strategic mindset that connects project execution to broader business objectives.
- Ability to coach and guide team members through complex challenges and escalations.
- Desire to deliver a best-in-class customer experience for Schneider Electric's most strategic customers.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- 5+ years of project management experience, including some data center experience.
- Experience working directly with customers in a project-based environment.
- Experience within construction, technical services, mission critical, infrastructure, electrical, energy, or related industries.
- Strong proficiency with Google Workspace (GSuite) tools.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, schedule commitments, and customer satisfaction.
- Proven ability to lead meetings, coordinate stakeholders, and drive projects to successful completion.
- Experience managing complex technical integration projects.
- Familiarity with coordinating cross-functional and globally distributed teams.
- Experience working with electrical power distribution systems, including medium-voltage (MV) and low-voltage (LV) switchgear, switchboards, power monitoring systems, or related critical power infrastructure.
- Experience supporting mission-critical facilities or large-scale electrical projects.
What's in it for me?
- Lead meaningful projects that directly impact customer success and organizational performance
- Work with diverse teams across technologies and geographies in a collaborative environment
- Grow your career with opportunities to expand your expertise and leadership capabilities
- Be part of a team that values quality, innovation, and continuous improvement
Ready to drive project excellence? We'd love to hear from you!
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: "We see you. We value you". It's more than just pay and benefits- it's a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 101,600 - USD 152,400 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you'll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation , youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
If you believe this job posting is not compliant with applicable state pay transparency laws in the U.S., please notify the Company as soon as possible upon discovery by completing this form Job Posting Compliance Form .
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and 'inclusion' is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
Responsibilities
Project Manager - Data CenterOverview
Join Schneider Electric's Data Center Services (DCS) team as a Project Manager - Data Center, where you will serve as the primary point of contact for key customers and lead projects from kickoff through completion. This role is critical to delivering the high-touch, \"white glove\" experience expected by some of our highest-value clients. You will be responsible for driving successful project outcomes while balancing customer satisfaction, project execution, team coordination, and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
- Lead end-to-end execution of customer projects, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, compliance, and delivery.
- Manage both Capex and Opex projects within complex customer environments.
- Coordinate local and global teams across mono-technology and multi-system integration projects.
- Serve as the primary customer contact and trusted advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
- Drive project schedules and ensure milestones are met on time and within budget.
- Lead customer site meetings and internal project coordination meetings.
- Facilitate internal and external quality reviews to ensure successful project delivery.
- Act as a resource for technical questions, issue resolution, and project escalation management.
- Foster strong customer relationships through proactive communication and exceptional service.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance project execution processes.
- Project Management: Coordinate resources, schedules, budgets, risks, and deliverables across complex customer projects.
- Customer Orientation: Deliver a best-in-class customer experience and build lasting client relationships.
- Communication: Lead clear and effective communication with customers, subcontractors, internal teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify challenges and develop mitigation plans to protect project timelines, budgets, and customer commitments.
- Decision Making: Make informed decisions that keep projects aligned with customer expectations and business objectives.
- Analytical Thinking: Utilize project data and metrics to drive informed actions and continuous improvement.
- Operational Efficiency: Improve processes and execution strategies while maintaining quality standards.
- Prioritization: Effectively balance competing demands, deadlines, customer requests, and stakeholder needs.
- Passion for issue resolution and ownership of customer challenges.
- Strong commitment to customer satisfaction and project success.
- Ability to independently manage projects while leveraging available support resources.
- Self-motivated learner with a willingness to develop expertise in products, systems, and procedures.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
- Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.
- Strategic mindset that connects project execution to broader business objectives.
- Ability to coach and guide team members through complex challenges and escalations.
- Desire to deliver a best-in-class customer experience for Schneider Electric's most strategic customers.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- 5+ years of project management experience, including some data center experience.
- Experience working directly with customers in a project-based environment.
- Experience within construction, technical services, mission critical, infrastructure, electrical, energy, or related industries.
- Strong proficiency with Google Workspace (GSuite) tools.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, schedule commitments, and customer satisfaction.
- Proven ability to lead meetings, coordinate stakeholders, and drive projects to successful completion.
- Experience managing complex technical integration projects.
- Familiarity with coordinating cross-functional and globally distributed teams.
- Experience working with electrical power distribution systems, including medium-voltage (MV) and low-voltage (LV) switchgear, switchboards, power monitoring systems, or related critical power infrastructure.
- Experience supporting mission-critical facilities or large-scale electrical projects.
Additional Information
- Salary: $101,600 – $152,400
- Posted: today