Director of Construction 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: As an essential partner to STACKs Regional Vice President the Director of Construction supports both strategic and tactical initiatives solving difficult daily challenges that threaten the budget schedule and/or safety of our projects assisting in removing roadblocks and improving communication while helping to lead the Construction Team resulting in more predictable favorable and consistent outcomes. The Director of Construction is responsible for leading construction activities for the BOD / Turnkey Program on a specific project or campus; including negotiating with contractors consultants and other vendors making sure that schedule and budget commitments are met optimizing costs through value engineering and working successfully across multiple crossfunctional teams both within and outside of STACK. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large complex data center construction projects and an ability to understand and align stakeholder interests. In this role you will: - Instill a culture of safety quality collaboration and professionalism at the site
- Provide direction to the GC Owner Vendors and other trade partners as required
- Monitor and oversee the design permits and entitlements phase ensuring as efficient and expedient a process as possible
- Review analyze and negotiate Construction Schedules from GCs and Ownerdirect vendors as required
- Prepare highlevel overviews and Owner Schedules for reporting and/or analysis
- Accountable for the Project Owner Budget including initial setup and ongoing management through to completion. Ensure regular updates are made and highlevel accuracy is consistently maintained
- Provide highlevel oversight of Commissioning activities and intervene as required to mitigate issues that arise
- Accountable for GC Contract Negotiation and Administration including coordination with STACK Legal establishment of GMP markups contingency escalation and allowances
- Negotiate and secure signoff for Change Orders schedule extensions budget increases etc.
- Prepare and deliver reports analysis and presentations for other STACK teams the Senior Leadership Team the Board and other parties as required
- Lead and manage Client relations including interface with STACKs funding partner and Senior Leadership Team.
- Lead manage mentor and develop STACK project team(s) driving and maintaining a highmorale culture
- Collaborate successfully with other STACK teams including Development Solutions Engineering EH&S Finance Capital Markets and Operations
- Schedule prepare agendas and lead regular project meetings and other meetings as required
- Review data provided by the team for Monthly Construction Reports quarterly Board Meeting Reports and other ad hoc meetings reports and presentations
Required Skills Education and Experience: - 815 years in Construction (incl related fields such as Project Management Consulting; RE Development; Design/Engineering)
- Data Center experience required
- Extensive experience in large scale ground up core & shell sitework utility and fitout construction $100M preferred)
- Fouryear degree in a related field (Construction Mgmt. Engineering Architecture) is strongly preferred but not required
- Clientfacing and team leadership experience strongly preferred
- Advanced proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel (also Word PowerPoint Outlook SharePoint OneNote Project)
- Knowledge and competency with Bluebeam and BIM platforms
- Experience with Procure or other PM software preferred
- Welldeveloped 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
- Ability to take full ownership of largescale projects and develop a collaborative and highmorale team culture where issues are identified early and resolved expeditiously
- 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.
- Strong Data Center technical knowledge incl OFCI/CFCI equipment procurement strategies & lead times Ownerdirect vendors lender requirements etc.
- Rigorous attention to detail precision and accuracy particularly in financial matters budgets cost projections etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills externally with Clients and across all levels of the organization including Exec level
- Ability to prioritize delegate and stay focused under pressure manage multiple competing priorities and adapt to constantly changing requirements.
- Strong organizational skills are a must.
- Positive cando attitude and team player
Other Details: - Location:one of our major markets (NVA POR SVY PHX DFW TOR CHI); reasonable driving distance to the site.
- Onsite/WFH Expectations: onsite at job trailer or other STACK facility 45 days/wk
- Domestic travel occasionally required. Typical trips are 12 days / 1 domestic trip/qrtr
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 STACK Assembly rewards and recognition.
- 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.
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