Project Executive, Data Centers

Overview

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies).

We integrate data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform to connect design, construction, and operations, delivering smarter, more predictable results and redefining how America builds.

We manage some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors.

Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.”

For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

Our total rewards program offers you and your family the support you need when it matters most. It includes competitive salaries, auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles, access to market-leading medical and emotional and mental health benefits, dental, and vision insurance plans, virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care, generous paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources, company-paid and voluntary life insurance, tax-deferred savings accounts, 10 backup daycare days each year, short- and long-term disability, commuter benefits, and more.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in business judgment and all financial and profitability aspects of projects under your jurisdiction
• Participate extensively in and work on the project acquisition process, defining and developing project budgets and schedules that will achieve profitability objectives while considering project-specific challenges
• Set appropriate milestones and assign staff qualified to handle the scope and complexity of the project
• Work closely with clients, owners, architects, and subcontractors to develop relationships that exceed the client satisfaction to Suffolk’s demanding standards
• Oversee the management of all necessary resources throughout the entire project from start-up through closeout and ensure that the Owner’s expectations regarding budget, schedule, and quality, as well as Suffolk’s profitability objectives, are met or exceeded
• Ensure that the day-to-day operations of projects are transitioned effectively to Project Managers and Superintendents from Pre-Construction when work commences in the field
• Mentor, train, and coach staff to perform to or exceed Suffolk standards
• Represent Suffolk to the Owner(s), Architects, Consultants, Government Authorities, Vendors, and Subcontractors
• Participate in and contribute to the RFP response process including editing for project-specific content, and interview preparation and participation as requested
• Participate in Contract negotiation as requested
• Responsible for ensuring that Projects achieve budget, schedule, quality, and profitability objectives
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the Suffolk/Owner Contract
• Ensure project team understanding of the same and that project achieves compliance with
• Visit sites regularly to monitor project performance, schedule, and expenditures with project staff, highlight potential challenges, and provide leadership in responding creatively to bring projects in on schedule and under budget, where feasible
• Monitor and evaluate Project Manager and Superintendent staff assignments
• Aid in the sourcing and screening of candidates as requested; mentor, coach, and train them to perform and ensure effective matching of talent to project scope
• Manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10-15 years of construction management experience for a large-scale general contractor or CM at Risk firm
• Self-perform experience a plus
• In-depth knowledge of intricate commercial construction practices required
• Experience leading multiple successful project teams including development of direct reports and maintaining relationships with external entities
• The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems