Construction Manager - Data Center

About the role

WORLD WIDE PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS is hiring two Construction Managers to support a large scale data center project in La Porte, Indiana.

Responsibilities

• Civil Lead:

  • Oversight of site development, civil infrastructure, and horizontal construction.
  • Clearing, grading, mass excavation, erosion control, and site preparation.
  • Stormwater, sanitary, domestic water, fire water, underground utilities, duct banks, roads, paving, and site concrete.
  • Civil interfaces with foundations, buildings, utilities, and electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
  • Earthwork quantities, soil conditions, compaction, excavation, and material placement.
  • Third party soils, concrete, and civil material testing.
  • Civil drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, and contractor work plans.
  • Contractor sequencing, manpower, equipment, and material readiness.
  • Inspections, permitting, and utility connections.
  • Underground utility risks, access constraints, scope conflicts, and weather impacts.

• Vertical Construction Lead:

  • Oversight of building construction, core and shell execution, and vertical trade coordination.
  • Foundations, structural concrete, structural steel, precast, building envelope, roofing, interiors, and fit out.
  • Coordination among structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and controls contractors.
  • Interfaces with civil infrastructure, central utility systems, equipment installation, and commissioning.
  • Drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, shop drawings, and contractor work plans.
  • Progress by area, elevation, system, and construction zone.
  • Installation readiness for major mechanical and electrical equipment.
  • First in place reviews for structural, architectural, and building system installations.
  • Constructability issues, access constraints, trade stacking, and incomplete predecessor work.
  • Building dry in, permanent power readiness, equipment room turnover, and other critical milestones.

• Field Leadership and Execution:

  • Serve as the primary onsite field leader for the assigned scope and represent the Owner’s interests.
  • Maintain a visible field presence and conduct daily site walks.
  • Identify safety concerns, coordination issues, quality deficiencies, and schedule risks.
  • Support a behavioral based safety culture and high contractor safety standards.
  • Lead daily and weekly progress meetings with contractors, project management, design, and commissioning teams.
  • Hold contractors accountable for planned work, manpower, milestones, and issue resolution.
  • Communicate and escalate significant field issues.

• Schedule and Productivity:

  • Monitor progress against the integrated Primavera P6 schedule.
  • Confirm field activities support critical path milestones and turnover dates.
  • Track labor, installed quantities, concrete placement, excavation volumes, linear footage, and completed work areas.
  • Lead or participate in three week look ahead planning.
  • Identify manpower, material, equipment, access, design, and predecessor constraints.
  • Develop recovery plans when progress falls behind.
  • Review contractor schedule updates, milestone reporting, and progress claims.

• Quality and Technical Oversight:

  • Inspect work for compliance with contract documents, approved drawings, specifications, and quality requirements.
  • Lead first in place reviews and establish quality benchmarks.
  • Support testing and inspection programs.
  • Coordinate inspections with contractors, testing agencies, design teams, and local authorities.
  • Document nonconformance issues and drive corrective action to completion.
  • Confirm work is complete before follow on activities proceed.

• Risk, Coordination, and Reporting:

  • Evaluate risks to safety, schedule, quality, cost, access, and turnover.
  • Develop mitigation strategies with project leadership and contractors.
  • Track RFIs, submittals, design clarifications, field issues, and open decisions.
  • Support contractor change order reviews and verify schedule and cost impacts.
  • Coordinate among project management, design, engineering, quality, safety, commissioning, contractors, vendors, utilities, and local authorities.
  • Coordinate Owner furnished equipment deliveries, access, installation readiness, and commissioning integration.
  • Prepare daily field reports and weekly updates covering progress, manpower, safety, quality, milestones, risks, contractor performance, and recovery actions.
  • Maintain records of meetings, photos, inspections, progress metrics, and issue resolution.

• Commissioning and Closeout:

  • Support startup, testing, functional verification, and integrated systems commissioning.
  • Monitor turnover sequencing for building, mechanical, electrical, and system completion.
  • Coordinate contractor support for equipment startup and commissioning.
  • Drive punch list completion through ownership, tracking, and field verification.
  • Oversee as built drawings, operations and maintenance manuals, warranties, inspection records, and turnover packages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architecture, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent field experience will be considered.
• At least 10 years of progressive experience managing large scale commercial, industrial, mission critical, advanced manufacturing, or data center construction.
• Civil Lead candidates must have significant experience with site development, earthwork, underground utilities, stormwater, roads, paving, and site concrete.
• Vertical Construction Lead candidates must have significant experience with structural, architectural, core and shell, building envelope, interiors, and building systems.
• Data center or mission critical construction experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated field leadership, schedule management, quality control, contractor coordination, and issue resolution experience.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, schedules, submittals, and technical documents.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and construction management platforms such as Primavera P6, Procore, or similar systems.
• Strong communication, leadership, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work onsite in a fast paced construction environment.
• Led based construction or continuous improvement experience is preferred.

Benefits

WWPS offers competitive compensation and comprehensive Day One benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Short term and long term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.