Senior Project Manager, Mechanical (AI/HPC Data Centers)

Location: New York, NY; other location: Dallas. Hybrid/flexible working arrangements.

Company

hirify.global develops digital-asset infrastructure and data center infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads, including a multi-gigawatt data center development pipeline.

What you will do

• Own mechanical and plumbing owner-furnished, contractor-installed (OFCI) packages from demand forecasts, RFPs, bid leveling, award recommendations, and purchase orders through delivery and post-award changes.
• Provide technical, design, equipment-cost, lead-time, escalation, and budget input for HVAC, plumbing, heat rejection, liquid cooling, fire protection, BMS controls, water treatment, and generator fuel systems.
• Coordinate submittals, shop drawings, production slots, expediting, logistics, required-on-site dates, and delivery windows across multiple sites and schedules.
• Define and lead factory witness, factory acceptance, first-of-kind, and first-article testing for chillers, dry coolers, CDUs, CRAHs, fan walls, air handlers, pumps, skids, and modular plants.
• Lead OEM and vendor research, new-technology evaluation, product qualification, dual-sourcing, modular plant pilots, and first-of-kind testing.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, Legal, Construction, Operations, design teams, commissioning agents, OEMs, and tenant technical teams while building trackers, templates, test protocols, qualification criteria, and turnover processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8–10 years of experience in mechanical equipment engineering, procurement engineering, MEP construction, OEM application or project engineering, or owner-side capital delivery, including at least 5 years supporting data centers or other mission-critical facilities.
• Hands-on experience running RFPs and technical and commercial bid leveling for mission-critical mechanical systems, including cooling plants, air handling systems, pumps, heat rejection equipment, piping, valves, controls, and redundancy configurations.
• Experience coordinating equipment submittals with an Engineer of Record and cross-disciplinary design teams, plus production tracking, expediting, and factory witness testing.
• Working knowledge of equipment commercial terms including warranties, storage, startup, liquidated damages, title, and risk of loss.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent equipment packages across multiple sites and schedules.
• Advanced Excel skills, including trackers, bid-leveling models, and cost forecasts.
• Experience reviewing mechanical drawings, equipment submittals, sequence-of-operations documents, commissioning scripts, test reports, O&M manuals, and maintenance documentation.
• Strong communication skills for explaining technical issues to operations, leadership, vendors, design teams, construction teams, and commissioning partners.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of experience, including multi-site hyperscale, AI/HPC, or wholesale colocation programs using an OFCI delivery model.
• Professional Engineer license or Engineer-in-Training certification.
• Liquid cooling experience with CDUs, FWS/TCS design, fluid quality, wetted materials, leak detection, ASHRAE TC 9.9, and OCP liquid cooling guidance.
• Experience at a chiller, heat rejection, CRAH/fan wall, or CDU manufacturer.
• Experience with modular or prefabricated mechanical plants and first-of-kind product qualification.
• Experience with Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bluebeam, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Power BI, or ERP/procurement systems.
• PMP, CSCP, or an equivalent recognized project management or supply chain credential.
• Experience building processes, templates, and tools as an early member of a new team.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements with flexible paid time off.
• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus.
• 3% company 401(k) contribution and company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents.
• Generous paid parental leave and competitive family-planning benefits for US employees.
• Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry, employee resource groups, and a high-performance, transparent-feedback culture.
• Free snacks, weekly breakfasts and lunches, and coaching and counseling through Headspace.