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About the role
- Director of Special Projects overseeing maintenance capital projects at Vantage Data Centers. Responsible for planning, execution, and collaboration across teams ensuring construction project success.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of maintenance capital project portfolio, including planning, pre-construction, design, permitting, competitive bidding, team selection, construction, commissioning, and project closeout
- Create and run project budgets and establish monthly forecasts, including variances
- Act as leader with vision and drive coordination and integration of internal collaborators within the project
- Guide direct reports and third-party project management resources and track staffing utilization
- Ensure all elements of customer construction align with Vantage’s safety and data center work rules
- Partner with customers and internal Vantage teams to standardize customer construction delivery across the Vantage portfolio that minimizes impact/drag on Vantage resources
- Own resource allocation and project workflow for direct reports and third-party project management continent workforce
- Drive day-to-day construction decisions to conclusion
- QA/QC work products of direct reports to confirm accuracy by handling inputs and delivery of work products from internal team members to ensure new data center spaces align with all customer-applicable requirements
- Work with the internal team members and customers to create scope, schedule and budgets for their projects to receive yearly project budget approval
- Support sales in customer engagement and fulfillment of requirements as tied to leases
- Ensure delivery is in accordance with leases for readiness projects
- Partner with Director, Construction Cost & Finance to produce monthly project forecasts including variance analyses as well as execution of Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and project authorizations for new and existing contractors and vendors
- Vendor/Contractor management including qualification and relationship building/maintenance
- Review monthly billing with direct reports, confirm substantiation and audit vs budget
- Ensure ‘lessons learned’ are held and placed in the feedback loop to drive continuous improvement
- Ensure project team aligns with project turnover documentation requirements to Operations
- Work closely with Operations to coordinate design criteria and construction with ongoing maintenance and operation of existing facilities
- Additional duties as assigned by Management
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or similar field, or equivalent experience
- 7 to 10 years of experience in a management role required, 10 to 15 years preferred
- Complex and technical construction experience is required
- Data Center experience is preferred
- Experience in CSA (civil, structural, architectural) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction management is a requirement
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and project management tools like MS Project or P6
- Travel required is expected to be 30% but may increase over time as the business evolves
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- life and AD&D
- short and long-term disability coverage
- paid time off
- employee assistance
- participation in a 401k program that includes company match
- many other additional voluntary benefits
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