Director of Construction

Director, Development

THE COMPANY :

My client are a prominent data center developer, specializing in providing digital infrastructure solutions to facilitate the growth of the world's most innovative companies. They have earned acclaim as an industry leader for their expertise in constructing, owning, and operating highly efficient and cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of their nationwide facilities not only meets but exceeds the most stringent industry standards in terms of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. Their extensive scale and broad geographic coverage are tailored to cater to the needs of rapidly expanding hyperscale and enterprise businesses.

THE ROLE

• The Director, Development is primarily responsible for leading and managing the design, preconstruction and construction activities for Dallas region.
• Identifying, developing, growing, and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to include Facilities, Contractors, Designers, Engineers, Commissioning Agents, Vendors, and Data Center Operations staff is critical to the success of this position.
• Drive work with internal stakeholders, design, and construction teams to create master development programs for our largest sites and Greenfield projects.
• Implement and maintain cost control best practices within site development projects.
• Develop and maintain relationships with some of our largest and most influential customers.
• Implement and manage site development plans to achieve time, budget, and quality standards in a predictable fashion.
• Create and communicate updates on development program & project status on a monthly basis suitable for executive level reviews.
• Write scopes of work for design, construction, commissioning services & participate in procurement and project cost estimates.
• Evaluate and level pricing proposals for design, construction, equipment supply and commissioning services.
• Monitor & create project budget / cost-to-date against overall project budget
• Establish project schedules and manage teams to on-time completion.
• Review and approve monthly pay applications from the contractors.
• Review change order requests from contractors and negotiate pricing.
• Establish site construction security procedures in conjunction with site security team.
• Ensure appropriate submittals are coordinated with site stakeholders.
• Develop plans for product deployment and review / communicate plans with the staff involved.
• Represent our Interests as leader in OAC meetings.
• Create & build relationships that enhance our ability to be leader in creating the World's Most Valuable Data Center Real Estate.
• Work with the internal team to enhance project management processes and protocols.

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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES