Role
The CapEx/EPC Project Manager plays a critical role in driving CoolIT’s operational and strategic growth. This role is responsible for leading complex capital infrastructure and EPC-style projects across CoolIT’s expanding product portfolio, including laboratory infrastructure, test facilities, and customer-integrated cooling deployments. The Project Manager owns full lifecycle delivery—from project scope development, engineering definition, procurement, and contractor coordination through commissioning and handover—ensuring alignment across internal teams, third-party partners, and customers.

What You’ll Do
Responsibilities

Project Lifecycle Delivery: Lead end-to-end delivery of capital infrastructure and EPC-style projects from feasibility and Front-End Engineering Design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.

EPC / Contractor Management: Coordinate and oversee internal teams, contractors, suppliers, and consultants to ensure alignment on scope, schedule, cost, and quality. Manage interfaces between internal engineering teams, field services and external delivery partners to ensure seamless execution.

CapEx Project Governance: Develop and manage CapEx budgets and schedules, project performance, and change management. Support commercial processes including contract execution, change orders, and cost control mechanisms.

Stakeholder & Customer Management: Act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders and external customers, ensuring clear alignment on objectives, scope, and delivery expectations. Lead structured governance cadence including executive updates, milestone reviews, and project status reporting.

Infrastructure Project Management: Lead planning and scheduling of laboratory and production infrastructure projects, ensuring readiness for product validation and deployment.

Risk & Issue Management: Identify, assess, and manage project risks across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases. Develop mitigation strategies and raise critical risks through appropriate governance channels.

Example Projects

Deployment of liquid cooling lab infrastructure and test environments

Data center or HPC cooling integration projects with customers





EPC/EPCM-style projects involving external engineering and construction partners

Capital projects supporting manufacturing expansion in Calgary

Who You Are
Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mechanical/Electrical disciplines, or a related technical field. Equivalent combination of technical education and relevant industry experience may be considered.

7+ years of progressive project management experience in engineering, capital projects, or industrial environments

Proven experience delivering CapEx projects involving infrastructure, equipment, or facility buildouts

Demonstrated involvement across the full project lifecycle, including design, procurement, installation, and commissioning

Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners (contractors, vendors, or consultants)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working within or alongside EPC/EPCM delivery models

Background in infrastructure, laboratory environments, data center systems, or industrial manufacturing scale-up

Experience with contractor/vendor management, procurement processes, and change management in capital projects

Exposure to customer-facing or externally delivered projects with multiple stakeholders

Experience supporting investment cases, CapEx justification, or ROI-driven project delivery

PMP (Project Management Professional) or equivalent certification

Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement certifications considered an asset

Skills

Strategic Thinking & Alignment

Financial and Business Acumen

Risk & Change Management

Cross-functional Leadership

Data-driven Execution

Stakeholder Communication

WHY COOLIT?




We strive to be an employer of choice and as such we believe in rewarding our employees with career and development opportunities that will maintain and strengthen our culture while aligning to our vision and values.

Benefits

Vacation and flex days, and paid company-wide shutdown during the holiday season.

Comprehensive benefits including Dental, Drugs, Optical, Paramedical and Health Spending. These costs are covered by CoolIT and are enacted from your first day.

Dress for your day – in a casual yet professional environment.

Retention rewards like “The Big Coffee Break” that reward tenure with additional vacation time and a monetary bonus.

Company-funded RRSP contributions to support your long‑term financial goals.

Successful candidates for this position will be required to undergo background checks including criminal records check and education.

About Coolit Systems Inc.
Founded in Calgary, Alberta in 2001, CoolIT Systems is the leading Direct Liquid Cooling technology provider for data centers, supercomputers, and desktop computers. We design and manufacture solutions used by the largest tech companies globally.

Recognized as one of “The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2023” by Financial Times and honored with the Deloitte Fast 50 Clean Technology award in 2022, as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 distinction in both 2021 and 2022, CoolIT's rapid growth is capturing global attention.

As demand for generative AI, high performance computing and cloud solutions rapidly expands, there has never been a more exciting time to join our team.

Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging
Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Chance to Employment. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance in all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin,citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.

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📌 CapEx/EPC Project Manager (Alberta)
🏢 Ecolab
📍 Alberta