Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function

The Assistant Construction Manager serves as the owner/developer’s Project Manager for an assigned 472 MW IT data center building. Reporting to the Building Manager, who provides senior project leadership, this role manages assigned building scopes and workstreams through design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.

The Assistant Construction Manager coordinates the owner’s internal teams, general contractor, commissioning providers, and other project partners. The role monitors scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk; coordinates project decisions and approvals; and raises significant issues to the Building Manager.

Responsibilities:

- Manage assigned building scopes and workstreams on behalf of the owner from design through construction, commissioning, and turnover.
- Monitor progress against approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements; identify variances, assess impacts, and recommend corrective actions.
- Review and coordinate
- schedules, cost estimates, procurement plans, change requests, and other project deliverables.
- Track procurement and construction readiness, including long-lead equipment, owner-furnished equipment interfaces, and required approvals.
- Coordinate construction progress reviews, site observations, issue resolution, and follow-up with the project team.
- Maintain project risk, action, decision, change, and issue logs; communicate material impacts and proposed mitigations.
- Support cost forecasting, cash flow, and change management, maintaining clear documentation of commitments, exposures, and approvals.
- Coordinate commissioning, integrated testing, documentation, and turnover activities with the GC, commissioning providers, operations, and other stakeholders.
- Provide clear and timely project status updates to the Building Manager and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience managing construction projects or major construction workstreams, including schedule, cost, scope, and coordination responsibilities.
- Experience on large, complex projects; data center, mission-critical, industrial, or comparable infrastructure experience preferred.
- Experience coordinating general contractors, design consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to review construction schedules, estimates, design packages, procurement plans, and change requests.
- Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and issue-resolution skills; ability to manage multiple workstreams and escalate risks appropriately.

Location: On-site near Portsmouth, OH

Base Pay - $70,000-$115,000

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