THE COMPANY:
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the worlds most innovative companies. We are an awardwinning industry leader in building owning and operating highly efficient costeffective wholesale colocation and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meet or exceed the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability security connectivity and physical resilience.
STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.
THE POSITION:
The Director Construction and Offsite Water Infrastructure for our Stafford Technology Campus (STC) is a unique role that requires welldeveloped people and technical skills expert crossfunctional collaboration and highly refined communication skills to be successful. This role will challenge the successful candidate who will be responsible for managing consultants and contractors providing support to our Wet Utilities Team with regards to the STC Campus managing relationships with various external stakeholders (including but not limited to inspectors AHJs and being an expert in supporting regulatory/policy efforts with those same stakeholders). The Director will be an essential part of STACKs STC Construction Team supporting both strategic and tactical initiatives and solving difficult challenges related to budget schedule and/or safety of the project. This may include leading negotiations with contractors consultants and other vendors ensuring that schedule and budget commitments are met driving a team culture that derisks and optimizes costs through value engineering early procurement and other methods.
In this role close coordination will be required with multiple teams at STACK as well as local AHJ leadership. The management of these relationships is absolutely essential to success and the development and preservation of these relationships is critical. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large complex Core & Shell / Heavy Civil / Industrial programs with a focus on water and sewer utility work. Data center industry experience is not required. You will ideally come from a heavy civil or water utility organization with experience in developing designing and constructing water and sewer facilities. Alternatively you may be a civil engineer with experience in construction design and planning within the water sector. The organizational structure is lean and flat and the continued aggressive growth of the business will create significant opportunities for career growth particularly as one of the first members in a newly created business vertical within STACK.
In this role you will:
- Manage and review consultant efforts with respect to various engineering design estimating and construction related to water/sewer to support development and construction of new data center sites.
- Establish manage and achieve schedule milestones with respect to design permitting construction start and completion dates.
- Advise STACK Development on how water/sewer needs will impact the constructability and feasibility of future projects.
- Review and approve project cost estimates for water/sewer needs.
- Manage relationships and discussions with water/sewer utility companies and AHJs.
- Review any agreements with water/sewer utilities.
- Assist in obtaining easements and other property rights.
- Manage budget related to water/sewer consultant and contractor activities.
- Prepare presentations track market activity and provide weekly and biweekly reports.
- Collaborate with other business units as necessary including preconstruction design and engineering development sales legal and tax.
- Manage a team of project management resources with onthejobsite responsibilities.
- Aid in the preparation of business cases and recommendations for leadership approval.
This Might Be Right For You If:
- Youre a strong communicator across industries and seniorities comfortable representing business interests to internal and external senior leadership utility partners government officials and other stakeholders in a fastpaced growthoriented environment.
- You are able to take technical concepts and translate them so that nontechnical team members can understand how it relates to their job.
- You have a strong attention to detail. You catch minute points across largescale projects with demanding timelines.
- You bring both creative and analytical approaches to presentations and problem solving. You can clearly and effectively communicate complex commercial and market information and analysis at all organizational levels.
- You dont get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities for internal and external stakeholders while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
- You enjoy problem solving and dealing with issues that vary from project to project and you are a creative thinker.
- Youre a teambuilder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating longterm plans for the growth and success of the team.
- Youre naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.
Required Skills Education and Experience:
- Data Center experience and technical knowledge is a definite plus but not specifically required for this role.
- 15 yrs overall experience including at least 5 yrs in complex largescale Core & Shell / Industrial construction programs with large scale utility infrastructure (including related fields such as Project Management Consulting; ReDevelopment; Design/Engineering)
- Fouryear degree in a related field (Construction Management Engineering Architecture) is strongly preferred but not required
- Clientfacing and team leadership experience required.
- Highlevel proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel (also Word PowerPoint Outlook SharePoint OneNote Project).
- Excellent financial acumen (familiarity with NetSuite preferred but not required).
- Strong leadership skills high emotional intelligence and a proven track record in leading managing and developing teams.
- Experience with multiple largescale fastmoving projects across a large geographical area and a history of developing collaborative and highmorale team cultures.
- Expert problemsolving skills utilizing creativity relentless followthrough and your deep understanding of the industry and STACK to earlyidentify and mitigate issues before they become problems.
- Mastery of the tools of the trade (AIA Contracts Construction Schedules Budgets & Schedules of Values Payment Applications Lien Releases Subcontracts Purchase Orders Invoices Vendor Agreements Construction Insurance types etc..
- Rigorous attention to detail precision and accuracy particularly in financial matters budgets cost projections etc.
- Ability to prioritize delegate and stay focused under pressure. Strong organizational skills are a must.
- Positive cando attitude and team player.
Other Details:
- Location: Driving distance to the project site (Stafford VA)
- Domestic travel may be required. Typical trips are 23 days 12 trips/year on average
ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
- Must pass comprehensive background screening
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
WHY STACK
- We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits including medical dental and vision insurance a 401K program flexible spending accounts even a cell phone subsidy.
- We foster a culture of appreciation including peertopeer recognition and rewards programs.
- Fun is part of our DNA with events game nights happy hours and barbecues.
- Were growing this is a great time to join and make an impact!
STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression age national origin mental or physical disability genetic information veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law
Note to external agencies: we are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to stack infrastructure will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.