Senior Project Manager - Data Centers Development

Key Responsibilities

• Client and Program Leadership
• Serve as the primary day-to-day client representative and trusted advisor for assigned data center development projects.
• Manage client relationships through proactive communication, issue resolution, and strategic guidance.
• Lead project governance processes, reporting, stakeholder management, and executive-level presentations.
• Carefully coordinate multi-disciplinary consultant teams and ensure alignment across all project stakeholders.
• Support business development initiatives and identify opportunities for expanded service delivery within client accounts.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with developers, investors, landowners, utility providers, consultants, and local authorities.

Development Management

• Lead data center projects from site screening and acquisition through development and readiness for construction execution.
• Manage development schedules, budgets, risks, and key project milestones.
• Oversee feasibility studies, site evaluations, due diligence activities, and technical assessments.
• Carefully coordinate development activities including: Site selection, Land acquisition support, Utility assessments, Capacity and infrastructure evaluations, Environmental due diligence, Zoning and entitlement processes, Permitting strategies, Infrastructure planning, Track and manage project development risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure development activities align with overall client business objectives, schedule requirements, and investment criteria.

Design Phase Services

• Support development of Minimum Functionality Case, plus enhancement identification.
• Support and contribute to Value Engineering efforts (selection, coordination, comment follow-up and verification).
• Assist in identifying long-lead items procurement items, providing input/feedback/research related to construction market conditions.
• Aid in establishing the success criteria for the project construction, including schedule, cost, technical and quality performance parameters.
• Review design and construction drawings against project requirements and for constructability issues and concerns, with follow-up and verification with GC and A/E.
• Aid in developing baseline schedule and provide regular progress update on all activities.
• Aid in Criticality Assessment (workshop to identify critical aspects of design and construction that may require owner witness/hold points and oversight of inspection, testing and acceptance).

Design and Construct

• Participate in Interface with local authorities having jurisdiction, developers, on issues regarding site development, e.g., utility tie-ins, permitting, etc.
• Participate in review of Product Data Submittals in coordination with technical reviewers.
• Coordinate with Commissioning Agent during development of Commissioning Plan and execution of Plan.
• Review project submittals and RFI.

Construction Phase Services including Commissioning and Handover to Operations

• Reviews the general contractors and key subcontractors project schedule for alignment with contract requirements.
• Provides oversight of general contractor during construction phase activities, including regular site visits and review construction work.
• Attends daily construction status meetings and Owner, Architect, Contractor meetings as scheduled.
• Reviews and reports on the overall construction effort and progress.
• Evaluates the project schedule with relation to actual field production.
• Carefully coordinates with Cost and Scheduling representatives for project reporting and dashboard updates.
• Carefully coordinates with Document Controller to ensure project documentation is loaded into client system of record.
• Supports observation and issue tracking/resolution and punch-list, coordination with A/E.
• Supports In-Process and Final Inspection and Test activity conducted by GC and Commissioning Agent.