Senior Construction Project Manager

Full-time - Senior

Ashburn, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Construction Project Manager is responsible for overall project success, including project oversight, direction, and strategy over multiple $100+ Million data center construction projects, particularly relating to safety, schedule, scope, budget, and quality. This role involves leading a team of professionals to safely deliver major capital construction projects, developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, and ensuring project teams fulfill the mission and objectives of the capital projects. The position requires oversight of contractors, integration of subject matter experts, and support for design team leadership regarding environmental and permitting requirements. The Senior Construction Project Manager will also be responsible for implementing communication plans, developing strategic sourcing plans, and ensuring project data integrity and documentation accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of professionals to safely deliver major capital construction projects of $100m+ to support the acquisition of new clients.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key customers, operations, finance, and internal department leaders to assure project team fulfills the mission and objectives of the capital projects.
• Direct and support project teams in the preparation and execution of tasks throughout all phases of the project process; includes identifying scopes of work, resource requirements, cost estimates and budgets, work plan schedule and milestones, quality control, and risk mitigation.
• Oversee General Contractor, direct contractors (ex. Commissioning Agents), third party testing agencies, the project controls and MEP teams for each project to ensure tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Primary liaison to the NTT GDC Americas, Inc. Design Managers to aid in the harmonization and coordination of Architecture/Engineering activities in a timely manner.
• Integrate Subject Matter Experts, internal and customer stakeholders to support design, and lead construction teams to create a master development program for site(s).
• Support Design team leadership for environmental, entitlement and permitting requirements.
• Provide guidance to the project delivery resources/team in achieving project goals. Implement communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed.
• Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans for GC/subs and specialty vendor selection, award, and contracts.
• Facilitate project meetings. Implement and align project documentation governance with company requirements. Ensure project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
• Reports status and variances. Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget, and schedule. Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure internal approvals, and manage change throughout the course of the project.
• Assesses and quantify change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk.
• Optimize project cost effectiveness and budget utilization including constructability reviews and Value Engineering (VE) into design process.
• Implement and lead typical Project level management tasks including contract status, finance/funding/payment status, budget updates, schedule baseline and monthly updates (EVM), submittals, contract documentation, project records and final contract hand off.
• Develop and implement project level financial controls, pay application processing, project change review and pricing, release of retention, claims, and resolutions.
• Validate drawings and specifications accurately reflect the desired construction quality and ensure any item requiring remediation is documented and remediated to owner satisfaction.
• Ensure all field installations are in accordance with the design.
• Develop, implement, monitor, and assure systems are in place to deliver highest quality standards for project safety- from start to finish.
• Provide leadership to confirm all Contractors and Suppliers are following safety best practices and producing the industry leading performance expected.
• Monitor and control risk management insurance and liability controls for assigned projects.
• Lead typical construction management monthly project meetings, (OAC, Design, MEP, ACx, etc.).
• Present executive summary and status reports to internal Senior leadership.
• Provide on-site support for sales and marketing team to present NTT Values to prospective new clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, business, construction management or relevant field required.
• 15+ years' experience in General and/or Specialty Construction Project Management with 10+ years' experience in data center or similar mission critical facilities construction.
• Experience in managing $100M+ projects.
• Experience in urban environments with difficult logistics and fast-track schedules.
• Experience in construction management, capital budget management, and knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems.
• Knowledge of industry standards, building codes and safety standards including fire protection regulations.
• Ability to demonstrate strong capability and expertise in Primavera, MS Project, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

Nice-to-haves

• LEAN Construction knowledge and application of those tools.
• Building Environment Accreditations (i.e., LEED, SITES, TRUE, WELL).
• Mechanical and Electrical systems quality and commissioning leadership in construction of Mission Critical Facilities.
• Mission critical, infrastructure, and/or data center construction experience.
• Multi-project experience in large scale construction management, mission critical or infrastructure preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience, education, and location.
• Base salary for this position is $164,500 - $210,000.
• Annual bonus eligibility based on individual and company performance.
• Paid time-off, medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life and supplemental insurance, short-term and long-term disability.
• Flexible spending account.
• 401k retirement plan.