Construction Manager

Title: Construction Manager - Data Center

Location: Onsite in Multiple locations in the US

Duration: 12 months on W2 (possible extension)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the onsite construction, commissioning, and turnover of Data Center Fitout projects in leased properties.
• Support the Lead CM as needed, including contractor, designer, and vendor management.
• Ownership of the construction scope, including retrofits of existing data halls and build-outs of new spaces within the leased portfolio across North America.
• Provides project coordination between Contractors, Landlords, Consultants, and Cross-Functional Partners.
• Provide construction leadership at the site by developing and maintaining strong relationships with our cross-functional partners, consultants, vendors, landlords, and contractors.
• Identify, define, and gain cross-functional alignment around opportunities to drive efficiency through innovation, process, and accountability.
• Provide project planning and scoping by working with cross-functional partners and internal customers to identify, sequence, and package work scopes for execution.
• Aid in the creation and maintenance of project schedules with support from Project Controls and Scheduling.
• Manage the cost change process and negotiate best pricing in partnership with cross functional/matrixed team members in cost and schedule.
• Manage the schedule and associated risks to ensure reliable and predictable turnover dates. Report upward on opportunities, risks, and mitigations to ensure predictable delivery of capacity.
• Responsible for monthly WIP walks to validate work in place for invoicing and regular site walks amongst Contractors, Landlord, consultants, and cross-functional partners to track progress and confirm handover conditions are met.
• Manage relationships with the contractor and designer.
• Assist with developing capital project budgets and provide ROM construction cost estimates.
• Manage monthly CapEx forecasting for all project-related costs.
• Provide analysis and action plan based on weekly project status report (financial, schedule, Q/C).
• Manage Method of Procedures (MOPs) for any retrofit/remedy work in a live data center.
• Facilitate interaction between Contractor, Client, and 3rd party QA/QC teams.
• Responsible for Project Closeout.
• Escalates key issues quickly to Construction Manager.
• Promote and model an attitude of continuous improvement, partnership, and teamwork in behaviors and communications.
• Support and lead an industry-leading safety culture and program.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent degree and/or minimum of 10 years of professional experience in any combination of construction, operations, maintenance, and project planning.
• Minimum 10 years of experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers/critical infrastructure.
• General knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and connectivity systems.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at a time in different phases.
• Mission Critical, infrastructure, and/or Data Center Construction Experience.
• Experience in commissioning of retrofit and new leased data center build-outs.
• Knowledge of CPM scheduling practices and familiarity with Primavera P6 software.
• Functional in MS Office products (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, etc.).

Additional Requirements:

• Needs to be able to travel as needed - 50% Travel to the assigned sites as needed in North America.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously ranging from 600k to $100M.
• Experience working in leased facilities is preferred but not mandatory.

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