Our technical client is seeking a highly talented individual to join the Data Center Capacity and Delivery (DCCD) team as a Construction Manager. As a Data Center Construction Manager you will be a part of a creative, diverse team tasked with solving fascinating problems constructing Data Centers. Our data centers are industry-leading examples of energy efficient, cost-effective designs. You will work alongside partner teams such as Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to build Data Centers that directly support our Customers. We are a global group of customer-obsessed builders, tasked with ultimately handing off the build to the DC Operations team (DCEO and DCO).
In this role, you will build some of the most interesting electrical and mechanical systems in the world. You will be on the construction site daily interacting with the construction trades, as the client's owner’s representative and be directly responsible for driving cost, schedule, and quality while managing construction vendors and contractors building data centers.
At this client, are all Owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the design review to construction bidding to construction execution and final hand-off to our customers. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to develop innovative data centers for our Customers.
The Data Center Construction Manager will be responsible for construction project management and oversight of construction related activities as they relate to new builds or general capital projects which includes the ownership of the project scope, quality, schedule, and budget. Some of the typical daily tasks of the Construction Manager:
- Direct interface with construction general contractors during the bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
- Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
- Create construction project scope and request for proposals.
- Financial analysis of construction.
- Construction project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centers.
- Constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centers or optimization of existing data centers.
- Construction document management including submittal review, RFI’s, change orders, and invoicing.
- Construction project quality control.
- 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 data center.
- Day to day: meetings with GC, meetings with permitting managers, project engineers, making sure the schedule is on track
- No direct reports
- Not running/optimizing the data center, need the construction of the data centers
- Keeps track of pricing to make sure they're not being overcharged
- Earth moving, building roads, water pipes, etc.
- Can't be a true electrical engineer, need to be well-versed with construction
