Director of Turnover (Data Centers)

About the role

Your impact
Our People & Places Solutions business reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight for turnover operations across multiple large-scale projects and portfolios.
• Ensure enterprise-level turnover standards, methodologies, and best practices are followed, engaging leadleadership teams in the coordination and facilitation of field verification and documentation of systems installed by Construction.
• Direct walkdown activities across active construction sites, providing guidance to construction leadership, subcontractor management, and client stakeholders through the scope of complex multi-discipline systems.
• Work within frameworks for collaboration with field Quality and sub-contractors, ensuring organizational adherence to testing and documentation requirements, and confirming the completion of pre-commissioning activities such as megger and continuity, testing and balancing, chemical cleaning and flushing, passivation, and pressure testing across your portfolio.
• Champion the adoption and optimization of our latest applicable digital platforms for project related activities, including punchlist management systems, reviews of system testing protocols, and the standardization of construction turnover package assembly.
• Develop and implement strategic frameworks for the final turnover of facilities, systems, and equipment to CQV teams in accordance with master program schedules.

Requirements

• Proven executive leadership experience in fast-paced, multi-site construction environments is essential.
• Establish strong partnerships with construction and CQV organizations to provide logical system and partial system boundaries that facilitate timely installation, construction completion, and turnover activities across your portfolio.
• Engaged coordination with field construction quality leadership to resolve systemic issues identified on system walkdowns is a key component of this role, fostering an organizational culture of innovation and problem-solving excellence.
• Implement, and standardize enterprise-level turnover programs across multiple sites and regions, ensuring consistency in processes, documentation, and quality standards while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to site-specific and regional requirements.
• Lead the timely transfer of care, custody, and control of systems to our clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related experience in lieu of degree.
• 15+ years of progressive Construction Turnover experience on Pharma/Biotechnology projects, Data Center projects, or equivalent complex facilities.
• Demonstrated success in leadership roles.
• OSHA 30 Certification required.
• Ability to provide leadership presence on active construction sites as needed. This would include the use of PPE, site visits, and client-facing activities.
• Proven experience developing and implementing turnover programs across multiple sites and regions simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to standardize processes and procedures across different geographical locations and business units.
• Experience establishing partnerships with clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders at the executive level. Ideally, you'll also have Experience leading large, geographically dispersed teams with a focus on cross-functional and cross-discipline coordination.
• Comprehensive knowledge of GDP Requirements and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency in reading and interpreting construction drawings (P&IDs, Single Lines, Isometrics, etc.).
• Deep understanding of systems-based scoping and turnover processes with ability to innovate and improve methodologies.
• Expertise in Construction Turnover Package assembly standards and quality frameworks.
• Experience with digital construction platforms including emerging technologies.

Skills

• Vision, leadership capabilities, talent for organizational transformation and stakeholder management, and exceptional business acumen.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

Commensurate with experience.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Company

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.