Senior Development Project Manager (Data Center Design)

Who we are:

Its pretty exciting to find yourself standing in a pivotal moment in time. Its even more exciting to be out front leading it. At QTS our world-class data centers are supporting our customers most strategic growth initiatives positioning us at the forefront of todays dynamic digital transformation.

As AI and cloud drive the demand for increased speed capacity and capability QTS has emerged as the global digital infrastructure leader committed to connecting the world for good. Driven by purpose and fueled by a spirit of innovation QTS designs builds and operates some of the worlds most advanced forward-thinking data is a portfolio company of Blackstone.

Who You Are & the Impact You Will Have:

The Senior Development Project Manager (Data Center Design) is primarily responsible for providing technical expertise and guidance on a given project(s) in their related field. The Senior Project Manager will interact daily with Facilities Contractors Architects Designers Engineers Commissioning Agents Vendors and Data Center Operations staff and should have both written and oral communication skills commensurate with this level of regular communication.

What You Will Do:

• Review drawing packages for adherence to design standards.

• 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 answer requests for information and value engineering queries.

• Support 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.

What You Will Need to be Successful (basic qualifications):

• Bachelors degree in Science or Engineering or equivalent professional experience

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

• Experience with Microsoft Office suite specifically PowerPoint for use in communicating project updates and MS Excel to summarize design deliverables and calculations

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

• 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.

Other Key Skills:

• Experience designing and managing 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 buildings.

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

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

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

• Basic 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.

• Architecture license or Engineering license preferred not required

• MBA Masters in Engineering Management or related field desirable

• Experience with delivery of mission critical data center facilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with all levels of the organization

• Must be a capable proven team player that both fosters and operates well within internal and external team environments.

• Able to solve problems at a tactical and functional level

• Strong Verbal and Written Communication Skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

The Perks (and these are just a few!):

• Q-Rest Sabbatical
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• QTS scholarship for dependents
• Eagle Club Award Trip Eligibility
• Paid Volunteer and Floating days
• Tuition Assistance Parental Leave and Military Leave Assistance

We conform to all the laws statutes and regulations concerning equal employment opportunities and affirmative action. We strongly encourage women minorities individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply to all of our job openings. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or national origin age disability status Genetic Information & Testing Family & Medical Leave protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We prohibit retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint orally or in writing to the employer or the government or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint or discrimination claim.

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QTS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.