Vice President

Construction Department

The Construction team is responsible for the management of delivering data centers from conception through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, Development, and Engineering along the way. Construction also works closely with partner contractors to come up with a vertically integrated design and manages these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight.  One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our technical staff is given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process.  When compared to external resources, our internal team can align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals.  This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results.

Position Description

With several active campuses, and planned expansion into more additional North American locations, Vantage is looking for a proven leader to grow and scale a region within the construction department at vantage.  The team consists of construction professionals at varying experience levels at each of our campuses. The successful candidate will manage existing and build additional talented teams that have an exceptional construction capability and strong reputation within the industry with both customer and contractor communities.

As Vice President of Construction, your responsibilities will include construction operations oversight and delivering data center projects of large size and complexity.  Collaboration and integration in the sales lifecycle process including client interface is integral to the role.  As Vantage continues to expand you will peer with the D&E and Finance teams focused on cost and schedule reduction to integrate change management and product optimization into new and ongoing projects, while providing lessons learned into the overall feedback loop for analysis and modification

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This role is based on-site in Port Washington, WI.

Essential Job Functions

• Oversee the management and administration of construction functions across mega-campus site

• Manage a team of construction directors responsible for campus construction

• Hold teams accountable to manage overall campus CAPEX budgets and ensure all regions comply with financial controls and policies

• Drive teams to execute all phases of construction including pre-construction, competitive bidding, team selection, construction, commissioning, and project closeout

• Ensure customers are satisfied and any issues with their services are remediated in future builds

• Act as thought leader and drive coordination and integration of internal stakeholders across all regions

Duties

• Drive teams who manage execution of development projects from planning through commissioning and close out / turnover to operations

• Drive output of various reports on a monthly and/or quarterly basis for review at leadership level

• Own resource allocation and project work flow for direct reports and third-party project management continent workforce

• Encourage and foster a team-oriented environment through positive feedback

• Evaluate and manage performance reviews for your team.  Seek out input from others and provide feedback and coaching to manage individuals as well as the team.

• Working with management, assist with creation of campus and project CAPEX budgets

• Support sales in customer engagement and fulfillment of requirements as tied to leases and manage delivery in accordance with leases

• Partner with Construction Cost team, Finance to drive forecast/variance analysis, master service agreements (MSA) and project authorizations for new & existing contractors and vendors are executed

• Vendor/Contractor management including qualification and relationship building/maintenance

• Ensure lessons learned are held and placed in the feedback loop to drive continuous improvement

• Work closely with the Operations to coordinate design criteria and construction with ongoing maintenance and operation of existing facilities

• Additional duties as assigned by Management

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or similar field, or equivalent experience

• 10-15 years of experience in management role required, 15 to 20 years preferred

• Large Scale greenfield Data Center campus development experience is required

• Experience in CSA (civil, structural, architectural) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction management is a requirement

• Travel required is expected to be 50-75%.

Physical Demands and Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.