Senior Development Program Manager (Data Center Design)

The Senior Development Program Manager (Data Center Design) is primarily responsible for leading and managing a group of project managers and engineers and providing guidance on a given region in their related field. The Design Program Manager (Data Center Design) will interact daily with Facilities Contractors Architects Designers Engineers Commissioning Agents Vendors and Data Center Operations staff and should have both written and oral communications skills commensurate with this level of regular communications.

RESPONSIBILITIES - Other duties may be assigned

• Manage a group of project managers and designer to review drawing packages for adherence to design standards.

• Manage multiple design and engineering aspects of the business across multiple projects across the country.

• Create and communicate updates on development design program and status of individual design milestones on a monthly basis suitable for executive level reviews. Effectively present information in a manner to support efficient decision making.

• Collaborate with internal and external design teams to evaluate designs to ensure they meet the established design standards local code requirements and requirements of the local AHJs.

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to define project scope requirements deviations from the standards and communicating requirements with the design team.

• Work with construction commissioning and risk management teams to support project managers and project engineers on the correct answers to requests for information and value engineering queries.

• Collaborate with the procurement team to review OFCI equipment submittals for compliance with the standard design criteria.

• Support direct reports and project teams in resolving design issues discovered during construction and commissioning phases.

• Work with consultants to develop and review architectural civil or structural calculations for adherence to the design standards.

• Manage the standards process including design drawings specifications BODs SOOs BIM models etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in Science or Engineering or equivalent professional experience

• Eight or more years of professional experience in design architecture engineering or the construction industry related to all aspects project design.

• Six of more years of experience with management of mission critical design implementation and project management.

• Desire to pursue career in property design / engineering / development / construction

• Experience with Microsoft Office suite specifically PowerPoint for use in communicating program updates to executive level and Excel to create and maintain site program & individual project budgets

• Be able to travel up to 25% of the time. Average travel anticipated to be every month for 2-3 days.

• US Citizenship for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Six or more years experience designing architectural civil or structural systems for Data Centers construction operations and/or facility maintenance.

• Project Management or Project Lead experience in large-scale projects.

• Direct experience in the construction of data centers critical medical industrial construction oil and gas or large-scale systems.

• Expert Level knowledge of Architectural Civil or Structural industry standards procedures and methodologies

• Experience with performance-based alternatives to prescriptive architectural civil or structural designs

• Expert knowledge of architectural civil or structural systems and their integration into mission-critical environments.

• Advanced multidisciplinary knowledge of mission critical systems design process pre-construction requirements and the construction process.

• Proven ability to communicate complex technical issues to senior leadership or non-engineers.

• Architectural license or Professional Engineering license preferred not required

• MBA Masters in Engineering Management or related field desirable

• Experience with delivery of mission critical data center facilities

• Extensive experience with management of MEP trades

TOTAL REWARDS

This role is also eligible for a competitive benets package that includes: medical dental vision life and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; exible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program and other company benets.

This position is Bonus eligible.

This job may be eligible for equity.

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