Director, Construction Management

About the role

This role requires strong team management and communication skills and demonstrates advanced organizational and time management competencies.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects from inception through customer or business turnover, with heavy focus and leadership in the preconstruction, construction, commissioning and turnover phases of projects.
• Direct Accountabilities Include Main point of contact for construction management team in particular campus or geographic region.
• Works hand-in-hand with the regional Director, Design Management to ensure performance certainty across all projects.
• Develop and maintain deep-rooted industry relationships with leaders in the contracting community including general contractors, trade partners, design partners, and AHJ’s.
• Collaborates with Director, Construction Management peers in other regions to maintain consistency across all regions/projects.
• Assists regional Director, Design Management in collaborating/coordinating with other design directors across all regions/projects.
• Assists to interview, hire, and assure effective training and development of new and existing staff.
• Reports status, successes, challenges, and plans of action to management team and company on a timely basis.
• Develop, manage and be accountable for achievement of key departmental metrics.
• Lead the regional Construction Management team members in the following:
• Providing guidance and project leadership including ground up construction, remodels, renovations, and fit outs, ensuring performance certainty of projects.
• Organizing and leading cross function work groups, including design, engineering, procurement, land enablement, commercial, operations, IT/network, sales, solutions architecture, legal, brand strategy, finance, and accounting as needed to achieve construction management best practices.
• Developing collaborative relationships with the construction community including general contractors, MEP trade partners, CSA trades, local Authorities Having Jurisdiction, design partners, and other key project vendors and suppliers.
• Active management of project budgeting from project inception through the various design phases and the completion of building turnover.
• Managing budgets during the design phase to utilize cost data as an input to design decisions.
• Direct as many as 25+ external vendors per project comprising of general contractors, A&E design teams, commissioning agents, equipment suppliers, etc.
• Aid in the development and implementation of company and departmental processes and best management practices within areas of responsibility.
• Create effective tools to empower and incentivize contracting and design partners to innovate approaches and solutions for project delivery and specific challenges.
• Ensure effective contract administration including generation, review, management, and monitoring of prime contracts, subcontracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents and documentation.
• Assure that internal controls are in place at each step of the process.
• Inspect work in place and work in progress to ensure same meets or exceeds quality, specification, and schedule requirements.
• Advocate for self-growth and promotion by seeking out training, professional development, and career advancement opportunities.
• Provide subject-matter expertise in areas of responsibility.
• Reports status, successes, challenges and plans of action to management team and company on a timely basis.
• Operates in lockstep with the DM on each project to ensure proper communications/escalations and regular reporting to all internal and external parties and leadership/management.
• Integrates with the sales and solutions engineering teams during the revenue generation process to meet with customers and ensure technical deliverables are met.
• Manages the project with the business in mind and works to ensure the project is meeting directives of CRC/SLT/Board.
• Operates with a constant mindset of continuous improvement, creativity, efficiency and innovation.

Qualifications

• Construction management experience, with at least 5 years of direct oversight team management.
• Exposure to data center design and engineering.
• Data center design/construction experience, especially with MEP systems.
• Project Management Software (MS Projects, Prolog, Procore, BIM 360, or similar).
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years progressive experience in successfully managing commercial construction project or programs, with data center experience required.
• Deep network of leaders within the data center design and construction community.
• Ability to navigate AHJ’s within a particular region with depth of understanding of the positions within local zoning, permitting and inspection authorities.
• Advanced experience in Excel, Smartsheets and/or AutoCAD.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced experience in Excel, Smartsheets and/or AutoCAD.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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