Project Manager - Data Center Construction (Edmonton)

Location: Edmonton area, Alberta | Fully on site, five days a week
Industry: Hyperscale Data Centers | AI and Digital Infrastructure
Employment: Full-Time or Contract | Project Manager, multiple positions
Compensation: CAD $140,000 - $210,000 base, depending on experience | Comprehensive benefits package

The Opportunity

We are partnering with an early-stage data center developer building hyperscale campuses across North America. Its Edmonton-region campus is in construction on a fast schedule to ready-for-service in late 2027, and the site team is hiring several project managers.

These are field roles. The site leadership is hiring builders: project managers who walk the work every day and sort out problems on the spot with their contractors.

You own a data hall, a discipline or a defined package and carry it through installation, commissioning and turnover.

What You'll Own

• Run your scope from the field every day with the general contractor: schedule, cost, quality and safety.
• Manage the contractors and trades on your package. Hold them to their commitments, challenge look-aheads and change requests, and work site issues through as they come up.
• Own the schedule, risks and deliverables for your hall or package, and deal with problems before they reach a milestone.
• Handle budgets, contracts, purchase orders, payment applications and change management as part of the job.
• Coordinate owner-furnished equipment deliveries against the installation sequence and keep your scope aligned with the neighbouring packages.
• Step in on other workstreams when priorities shift across the site.
• Support commissioning and turnover as each hall approaches ready-for-service.

What You Bring

• Direct, hands-on experience delivering mission-critical or data center construction.
• A record of running construction scopes in the field: managing contractors, driving the schedule and resolving site issues yourself.
• Ownership of your scope and the judgment to solve problems independently, without constant direction.
• Fluency in budgets, schedules, contracts, purchase orders, payment applications and change management.
• Full-time presence on site in the Edmonton area, five days a week with no hybrid arrangement, and availability for weekend work and extra hours when the build calls for it.

Who Gets Our Attention

A technical background in mechanical, electrical, plumbing, civil, architectural or structural work. Civil work on site is winding down, so experience in electrical and mechanical installation, building fit-out, commissioning and turnover lines up best with the phases ahead.

Experience on both sides of the industry stands out, with contractor-side years followed by owner or consultancy work. Canadian delivery experience counts, particularly winter construction.

The Person

You are a builder first. You take accountability for your scope and work through problems without waiting to be told how. You bring energy and a can-do attitude to a demanding site, and when another workstream needs a hand, you pitch in.

You know what you are signing up for: a large, fast-moving build with an aggressive delivery date, where weekends and longer days are part of getting it finished.

Why This One?

You join a hyperscale campus build while the site team is still forming, with a full data hall or major package matched to what you can deliver.

You work on the owner side for a developer with a pipeline of campuses across North America, which is where the next assignments come from.

Location

Edmonton area, Alberta, fully on site five days a week. Relocation support is available.

Compensation

CAD $140,000 to $210,000 base salary, depending on experience and level. Full-time employment and contract arrangements are both considered. Comprehensive benefits package.