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Data Center Construction Project Manager – Owner’s Rep – Austin, TX This opportunity is with a leading provider of mission-critical data center solutions as a Managed Services Provider as an Owner’s Rep for Construction Services. This firm provides a complete life cycle of solutions that are custom-fit to the requirements of their client’s mission-critical facilities. This opportunity provides a career-growth minded role with exciting projects with leading-edge technology and innovation as well as competitive salaries and benefits. They build mission-critical facilities for data center facilities nationwide for Enterprise, Colocation and Hyperscale Companies.

We are looking for a Data Center Construction Project Manager to support critical facility construction projects. The Construction PM will be responsible for all aspects of managing a data center construction projects, upgrades and retrofits in a production environment and act on the Owner’s behalf. This will include providing leadership to contractors and vendors associated with the delivery of company projects. The candidate will have overall responsibility for the delivery of assigned projects on budget on time and assurance that the project scope and quality meet Company Design Standards and the objectives set for the project. The successful candidate will have to be exceptionally organized and be great with back office work (change orders, budgets, paperwork driven, etc.)

Responsibilities:

Maintain liaison with various contractors and vendors in order to manage the day to day activities that impact the delivery of company’s critical facilities construction projects

Ensure that all day to day project responsibilities are met by the contractors and vendors on the project

Manage projects such as greenfields, brownfields, upgrades, or retrofits of data centers

Responsible for negotiating contracts with vendors as necessary. Responsible for creating and managing project schedules

Put together Project plans – size up, costs, budget, scheduling, timeline, manage change orders, etc.

Assists with reporting and RFPs to Contractors

Deliver Built to Suit projects with a heavy emphasis on value-engineering

Drive Company Standards uniformly as it regards to Project Delivery by all project participants on all projects

Identify, manage and mitigate areas of concern regarding potential liabilities and risk (fee, company reputation, errors and omissions, etc.) to Management and Region Manager

Manage financial aspects of contracts (progress billing, rental equipment, income / expenses) to protect the company’s interest and simultaneously maintain good relationship with the client

Represent the company in project meetings

Act as key Liaison with managers of all company departments

Maintain all logs required to track the progress of the project

Qualifications:

BA / BS a plus

Experience managing Data Center Construction Projects as an Owner or as a General Contractor

Data Center Project experience involving retrofits, upgrades, and capital improvement projects in a live data center environment

Must be familiar with the design process of building systems for data center and mission critical projects

Experience managing budgets

Minimum of 10 years relevant experience in the Data Center Construction Industry

Belong and Attend professional organizations such as AFCOM, ASHRAE, 7×24 exchange, PTC, Datacenter Dynamics / DCD, Uptime, iMasons, Bisnow etc.

Client Facing /Client relationship / Client Management skills

Solid Construction Project Management experience

Effective Communicator – emails, phone and face to face

Ability to work independently

Travel as needed to project sites

Solid Admin skills

Computer savvy: MS Project, Excel, P6 Oracle Primavera, AutoCAD a plus

Previous experience in the Military / Military Veterans a huge plus! Experience with Electrical / Mechanical: Navy nukes – EMN, ETN, MMNs, Seabees, Army – Power Generation, Air Force – Power Production, Generator Techs, Maritime, Coast Guard, Army National Guard, etc.

Submittal Instructions: Please apply directly by clicking the link below, alternatively you can forward your resume directly to: 6ehhyqz9x1qdybxcz6k5ae7spw@crelate.net

After applying, if you have further questions, you may call 973-895-5200 and ask for Iggy. You can also submit via our career portal and take a look at other Critical Facility openings we are working on at, https://www.pkaza.com/jobs/

If this job is not for you, feel free to forward this along. WE PAY FOR REFERRALS!!

Company offers competitive salaries and benefits package including medical insurance, a 401(k) plan EOE/AA Employer M/F/D/V Pkaza LLC is a third-party employment firm. All fees assessed by Pkaza LLC will be paid by our employer that we represent and not by the candidate