Director of Project Management at Nortek Data Center Cooling

Description

Position at Nortek Data Center Cooling

Job Summary

The Director of Project Management (PMO) leads a team of project managers responsible for the planning and execution of both New Product Development (NPD) projects as well as Custom or Engineered-to-Order (ETO) equipment orders. Partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Executive Leadership, this role establishes a process to execute and oversee complex projects while ensuring cross-functional alignment from project approval through customer delivery. The Director of PMO provides direction to project managers and cross-functional teams, manages business-level priorities, and ensures projects remain on schedule, within scope, and on budget. This leader must be a proactive, systems-level thinker with exceptional communication skills and the ability to anticipate and navigate challenges across multiple complex programs.

Position Responsibilities

• Develop and implement standardized project management processes tailored to engineer-to-order manufacturing, ensuring alignment between Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Production Planning, Quality, and Customer teams
• Establish structured workflows for project kickoff, engineering release, drawing approval cycles, long-lead procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing, and customer acceptance
• Define project intake and scoping processes that incorporate feasibility assessments, technical requirements, material constraints, and manufacturing capacity considerations
• Continuously refine project execution practices to reduce rework, minimize delays caused by engineering changes, and improve cross-functional predictability
• Develop real-time dashboards that track critical ETO & NPD project indicators such as engineering release progress, procurement status for long-lead items, fabrication readiness, machine/line capacity, and shop-floor schedule adherence
• Implement portfolio dashboards that visualize backlog health, load vs. capacity, customer delivery commitments, and risk areas across concurrent custom projects
• Collaborate with Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, and Finance to consolidate data into a single source of truth for project performance, resource demand, and material readiness
• Ensure dashboards highlight bottlenecks—such as overdue drawings, supplier delays, part shortages, or manufacturing constraints—to support proactive decision-making.
• Manage, coach, and mentor project managers and cross-functional contributors to ensure consistent, high-quality project execution
• Foster a culture of accountability, proactive communication, and continuous improvement across the project organization
  
  

Requirements

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• 8–10+ years of progressive experience in project or program management, including significant leadership responsibility
• Proven success managing complex, cross-functional new product development efforts
• Strong command of project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Monday.com, Microsoft Project, PLM systems)
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Highly persuasive, proactive, adaptable, and capable of leading through change.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to understand, adopt, and drive new technologies and processes.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment; able to prioritize, manage multiple initiatives, and meet deadlines
  
  

Preferred

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent
• Experience establishing or leading a PMO or project governance function
• Direct experience in Engineered-to-Order products, specifically large business-to-business sales of capital equipment.
  
  

Who We Are

Nortek Data Center Cooling is a Madison Industries company. Madison Industries is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world and has a robust portfolio of indoor air quality solutions. Madison builds entrepreneurially driven, branded market leaders that are committed to making the world safer, healthier and more productive by creating innovative solutions that deliver outstanding customer value.

At Nortek Data Center Cooling, we’re shaping the future by Creating a Better Tomorrow Every Day! We are a premier HVAC company offering energy efficient and sustainable products and solutions that exceed customer expectations through our employees’ commitment to quality, customer experience and operational excellence.

Our success depends on YOU! As a member of the Nortek DCC team:

• You are the lever to drive profitable growth and meaningful change.
• You are closest to customers/markets and understand our business.
• We move quickly. You can make the right decisions daily.
• You are where success begins and ends.
• Each of you can help make us better every day.
  
  

Equal Opportunity & Non-Discrimination – Nortek Data Center Cooling. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Nortek Data Center Cooling offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages. To apply, please visit our career site www.nortekdatacenter.com/careers