Technical Manager - Data Center
Schlumberger
Houston, TX
Description
Come join us at SLB New Energy & Industrial and be part of a global company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet
SLB New Energy & Industrial (NEI) is a division of SLB; our portfolio includes ventures in carbon capture and sequestration, geothermal power, energy storage, sustainable battery-grade lithium, hydrogen and Data center infrastructure solutions. To know more about NEI please visit https://www.slb.com/about/driving-energy-innovation/scaling-new-energy-systems
Our Data Center infrastructure solutions business provides Innovative and cost-effective solutions that enable building faster, smarter and more resilient data centers. Our modular infrastructure solutions scale AI and cloud computing capacity while minimizing capital risk and deployment delays. From design and supply chain to commissioning and operations, by standardizing components and relocating labor to controlled offsite environments, we help reduce costs, improve lead times, and lower construction risk while ensuring quality and global repeatability. To know more about our Data Centers Infrastructure solutions please visit https://www.slb.com/products-and-services/scaling-new-energy-systems/data-center-infrastructure-solutions
SLB is seeking a highly qualified and motivated Technical Manager to acting as the single point of accountability for all technical matters across active data center projects. The Technical Manager provides oversight, coordination, and direction on technical execution while ensuring that client-provided designs are executed correctly and the technical interfaces between contractors and disciplines are aligned, and that technical issues are resolved efficiently to support construction progress. This position bridges construction, procurement, and engineering contractors from a technical standpoint, ensuring consistency, clarity, and execution readiness across the portfolio.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for the full project portfolio, supporting Program and Project Managers on all technical matters
- Manage and oversee all technical interfaces across projects, ensuring alignment between client designs, engineering contractors, PEMB suppliers, and construction teams
- Guide site engineering, interface management, and field engineering teams in resolving technical queries, clashes, and execution challenges without undertaking design activities
- Coordinate responses to technical queries (RFIs, clarifications, deviations) in alignment with client-provided designs and contractual requirements
- Provide technical oversight of BIM and digital model coordination across projects, ensuring models issued by clients, engineering contractors, and vendors are aligned, constructible, and consistent with execution sequencing without performing model authoring or design work
- Ensure consistent interpretation and application of design documentation across projects and contractors
- Identify, assess, and promote modularization and standardization opportunities that improve constructability, reduce risk, and enhance delivery efficiency
- Bridge technical gaps between construction, procurement, logistics, and engineering contractors to maintain execution continuity
- Support technical reviews of supplier and subcontractor deliverables to ensure alignment with client requirements and execution strategy
- Provide technical risk visibility to Program leadership, highlighting potential impacts to schedule, cost, or constructability.
Qualifications And Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or construction management or 25+ years of relevant execution-focused technical leadership experience.
- 20+ years of experience in technical management, construction engineering coordination, or execution-focused technical leadership on large-scale Data Center projects
- Extensive experience in Data Center projects.
- Strong background in managing execution of client-provided designs rather than producing engineering deliverables
- Proven experience coordinating multiple engineering contractors, suppliers, and construction teams
- Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical interface issues in fast-paced, multi-project environments
- Experience with modular construction or standardized building systems is preferred.
- Background working with PEMB structures, vendor-engineered packages, or multi-contractor engineering models is preferred
- Experience operating at portfolio or program level across multiple concurrent projects is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Candidates must be able to legally work and reside in the US, without sponsorship.
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Benefits
International Opportunities
Global adventure, broad exposure, and limitless learning await you. You'll be part of the most multi-cultural and diverse team of experts in any industry, anywhere.
Insurance
Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents available from day one.
Learning Opportunities
Global adventure, broad exposure, and limitless learning await you. You'll be part of the most multi-cultural and diverse team of experts in any industry, anywhere.
Diverse and Inclusive
Our exceptional and diverse people are the pulse and spirit of who we are. Every day, you will enrich your knowledge in an environment where differences in thought, creativity and experiences are embraced.
About Us
We are a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. Together, we create amazing technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all.
Global in outlook, local in practice – and with a united, shared passion for discovering solutions, we hire talented, driven people and support them to succeed, personally and professionally.
SLB is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation / modification to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability to assist in the hiring process, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodationhotline@slb.com to request assistance. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to.
SLB is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor- priority referral Protected Veterans requested.
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