Project Manager/Construction Manager-Data Center
Summary
Oversee construction of data center facilities, managing scope, budget, schedule, and quality while coordinating contractors, vendors, and internal teams to deliver mission-critical infrastructure projects.
Overview
The Data Center Construction Manager will be responsible for construction project management and oversight of construction-related activities as they relate to new data hall projects or system enhancement or general capital projects. This includes ownership of the project scope, quality, schedule, and budget.Responsibilities as below:
- Own leadership throughout the construction, working closely with design and project teams to identify project risks, optimize buildability and support cost-effective delivery solutions.
- Proactively identifying construction, commercial, procurement and contractual risks and implementing mitigation measures.
- Direct interface with construction general contractors and other vendors during the bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
- Coordinate with internal teams, create construction project scope and requests for proposals.
- Conduct negotiations with general contractors or other vendors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
- Perform cost control and financial analysis of construction, regular site inspections to evaluate VOWD and certify payments.
- Manage construction projects for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of the data center facilities.
- Coordinate with internal teams to conduct constructability reviews of MEP designs associated with the construction or optimization of existing data centers.
- Contract administration and managing construction documents including submittal review, RFIs, change orders, and invoicing.
- Ensure construction project quality control and compliance with statutory regulations, SLA requirement and in-house guidelines.
- Record and report key construction metrics to team members and management.
- Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis associated with equipment failures.
- Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the overall project delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in building services, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, construction management or an equivalent engineering science OR 10+ years relevant overall experience in lieu of degree.
- 5+ years of relevant experience constructing and managing complex MEP systems in mission-critical environments.
- 5+ years of general contractor and vendor management work (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, RFI/submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution experience.
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and leadership skills.
- Experience in project or construction management in live data centers or comparable critical infrastructures.
- Experience reading and interpreting construction specifications and drawings.
- Experience in pre-construction procurement process, contract administration in construction phase and post-construction activities for proper project closure.
- Experience in level 4 & 5 testing and commissioning activities.
- Knowledge of local building codes and statutory regulations.
- Knowledge of data center construction sequence and critical equipment.
- Knowledge of project management and scheduling tools (e.g. MS Project, Primavera P6).
- Ability to bridge technical, commercial and contractual matters to drive successful project outcomes.
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.