Director of Turnover (Data Centers)

About the role

As Director of Turnover at Jacobs, you'll provide leadership and oversight for turnover operations across multiple large-scale projects and portfolios. You will ensure enterprise-level turnover standards, methodologies, and best practices are followed, engaging leadership teams in the coordination and facilitation of field verification and documentation of systems installed by Construction.

This role involves directing walkdown activities across active construction sites, providing guidance to construction leadership, subcontractor management, and client stakeholders for complex multi-discipline systems. You will collaborate with field Quality and sub-contractors to ensure adherence to testing and documentation requirements, and confirm the completion of pre-commissioning activities such as megger and continuity testing, testing and balancing, chemical cleaning and flushing, passivation, and pressure testing.

You will champion the adoption and optimization of digital platforms for project-related activities, including punchlist management systems, reviews of system testing protocols, and standardization of construction turnover package assembly. In coordination with project controls and construction leadership, you will develop and implement strategic frameworks for the final turnover of facilities, systems, and equipment to CQV teams in accordance with master program schedules.

This role requires establishing strong partnerships with construction and CQV organizations to define logical system and partial system boundaries, facilitating timely installation, construction completion, and turnover activities. You will oversee the interpretation of P&IDs, line diagrams, panel layouts, and CSA drawings, and coordinate with field construction quality leadership to resolve systemic issues identified during system walkdowns, fostering a culture of innovation and problem-solving.

You will implement and standardize enterprise-level turnover programs across multiple sites and regions, ensuring consistency in processes, documentation, and quality standards while adapting to site-specific and regional requirements. This will enable the timely transfer of care, custody, and control of systems to clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight for turnover operations across multiple large-scale projects and portfolios.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise-level turnover standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Coordinate and facilitate field verification and documentation of systems installed by Construction.
• Direct walkdown activities across active construction sites.
• Guide construction leadership, subcontractor management, and client stakeholders through complex multi-discipline systems.
• Collaborate with field Quality and sub-contractors to ensure organizational adherence to testing and documentation requirements.
• Confirm completion of pre-commissioning activities (e.g., megger and continuity testing, testing and balancing, chemical cleaning and flushing, passivation, pressure testing).
• Champion adoption and optimization of digital platforms for project-related activities, including punchlist management systems and system testing protocols.
• Standardize construction turnover package assembly.
• Develop and implement strategic frameworks for final turnover of facilities, systems, and equipment to CQV teams in accordance with master program schedules.
• Establish strong partnerships with construction and CQV organizations to define logical system and partial system boundaries.
• Oversee interpretation of P&IDs, line diagrams, panel layouts, and CSA drawings.
• Coordinate with field construction quality leadership to resolve systemic issues identified during system walkdowns.
• Implement and standardize enterprise-level turnover programs across multiple sites and regions.
• Ensure consistency in processes, documentation, and quality standards while adapting to site-specific and regional requirements.
• Lead the timely transfer of care, custody, and control of systems to clients.

Requirements

• 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, including 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Work Environment

This role empowers employees with a hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations to deliver their best work. In-person interactions are valued for both culture and client delivery.

Job posted on July 01, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.