Assistant Project Manager at SB Energy in Portsmouth, OH

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function

The Project Assistant – Data Centers role is responsible for planning and coordinating all aspects of internal information, system-specific projects from initiation to delivery. The role coordinates work performed by network engineers, data center technicians, and internal customers/partners by defining project requirements, performing feasibility and needs/impact assessments. The role develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes including asset management, resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, documentation, training and on-time delivery within budget constraints. Projects may vary in number, size and complexity. 

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple, cross-functional and technical projects.

• Partner with functional teams during initiation, plan, design, procurement, deployment, and post deployment phases.

• Responsible for managing/tracking program milestones, timeline, and overall deliverables.

• Responsible for asset and material management across data centers and warehouses.

• Engage in creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation including schedules, reviews, process documents, risk analysis, etc.

• Participate in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

• Participate in driving project lifecycle milestones from concept commit through project closure and advocate change management.

• Use metrics and KPIs to measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, and provide regular status updates.

• Participate in internal process improvements; remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions.

• Ensure risks are accounted for and provide risk mitigation strategies.

• Be a point of contact for vendor partners and internal stakeholders.

• Coordinate and assist with regularly scheduled meetings with core teams.

• Take an active role in evaluation of post project results against metrics; recommend or implement changes to improve delivery practices/processes.

• Other duties as required. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities assigned to this position.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from four-year college or university and 2 to 5 years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 2 to 5 years of project coordination experience in a high-pressure, and fast-paced environment, preferably supporting network hardware or data centers.

• Experience with data center lifecycles and/or large-scale networks.

• Builds productive internal and external working relationships.

• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

• Understanding of project management teams, resolving conflict, and meeting schedule timelines.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, documentation).

• Ability to work on multiple projects and assignments concurrently.

• Self-starter who is able to quickly learn new tools and gain familiarity with new processes and technologies with minimal assistance.

• Experience creating spreadsheets, presentation material, and project/process documentation.

• Strong observational and analytical skills, including: ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information, strong attention to detail and accuracy, ability to track and report metrics, and manage risks.

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and communicate project updates to client executives.

Location: On-site near Portsmouth, OH

Base Pay - $70,000-$115,000