Data Center Assistant Project Manager

About the role

This position is an opportunity to join one of the largest, fastest growing, and comprehensive TMT (Tech, Media and Telecom) practices in the industry. In addition to supporting project coordination and assisting with project delivery, the successful candidate should demonstrate strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively with project managers and team members to ensure successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support project managers in coordinating design teams and assisting with project delivery from initiation through completion.
• Carefully coordinate and work closely with clients, architects, engineers, contractors, marketing members, and all other team members.
• Maintain client relationships and manage team members through all phases of the project from proposal/fee development, site feasibility reports, construction documents, and overall construction administration.
• Primary Duties: This position is an opportunity to join one of the largest, fastest growing, and comprehensive TMT (Tech, Media and Telecom) practices in the industry. In addition to supporting project coordination and assisting with project delivery, the successful candidate should demonstrate strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively with project managers and team members to ensure successful outcomes.
• Manage multi-disciplinary design teams from project conception to completion.
• Keen focus on organizational skills and follow-through are required to be successful in this role.
• Mentoring/Managing: Help grow a team that works together to create a collaborative environment that promotes career growth, the production of high-quality construction documents, client satisfaction, and acts as a safety net for each other.
• Coordinate the work of multidiscipline design teams.
• Mentor, organize, and facilitate the growth of staff.
• Coordinate workload through the entire project development to complete documents on schedule.
• Mission Critical staff recruiting and retention.
• Marketing: Establish client relations, and participate in marketing, design, and production meetings. Assist Marketing and Business Development groups in developing fee proposals and scope of work documents. Promote HDR. Collaborate on development strategies, new business prospects, technical services, quality, and production methods and standards, to achieve the established goals and objectives of the business group, region and company.
• Technical: Ensure product deliverables meet quality standards.
• Manage and lead project teams to ensure successful project delivery and client satisfaction.
• Control project quality, schedule, scope, and budget.
• Forecasting, invoicing, and contract management.
• Aid in creating vital proposal content including scope, schedule, and budget.
• Aid HDR in interview and interview preparation/presentations.
• Work cooperatively with local office leads, other business groups, technical directors and marketing managers.
• Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle.
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed-to budget and schedule.
• Implement QA/QC procedures.
• Work with the Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews.
• Coordinate work and maintain relationship with subconsultants.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 5 years related experience
• Minimum of 3 years experience in the areas of site programming, project planning, design, construction and/or commissioning
• Previous Data Center/Mission Critical experience an architectural/engineering, or engineering consulting firm is desired
• Strong desire to stay current with the trends of the fast-paced industry of mission critical
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills

Skills

• Passion, work ethic, self-motivation, and strong leadership skills are a must to deliver technically excellent design solutions for our clients.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.