Senior Manager Data Center Construction

Skills

About the Role

You will lead construction delivery for a large-scale data center building from preconstruction handoff through commissioning and turnover. You will manage contractors, schedule, cost, risk, safety, quality, commissioning, utility readiness, and customer delivery milestones while providing clear status reporting to leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience delivering large-scale mission-critical projects
• At least 3 years in a senior role leading a project or building team through construction
• Experience delivering a data center or comparable mission-critical facility through commissioning and turnover
• Knowledge of GMP construction delivery, risk management, and contractor oversight
• Technical fluency across MEP, commissioning, civil, and structural systems
• Experience integrating owner-furnished equipment and supporting commissioning
• Cost control, change management, and schedule analysis expertise
• Procore
• Primavera P6
• Bluebeam
• SharePoint
• Full-time on-site presence in Afton, Texas

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of a large-scale data center facility from GMP handoff through energization, commissioning, and turnover
• Manage the building schedule and mitigate critical-path risks
• Maintain the project risk register and control contingency drawdown
• Enforce safety standards and partner with contractor safety leadership
• Manage general contractor and trade-partner relationships
• Oversee pay applications, change orders, forecasts, and budget tracking
• Own integrated cost, schedule, and cash-flow forecasting
• Administer GMP agreements and owner contracts
• Coordinate integration of owner-furnished equipment
• Coordinate utility availability, energization sequencing, and test windows
• Lead commissioning, closeout, and turnover to operations
• Manage customer-facing delivery milestones
• Enforce QA/QC standards
• Resolve cross-building campus conflicts
• Apply modularization, prefabrication, and lean delivery initiatives
• Ensure compliance with codes and permit requirements
• Report building status, risks, and forecasts to leadership

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents
• 11 company-paid holidays
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
• Free daily snacks and weekly in-office meal
• Employee Resource Groups