Special Projects Manager - Data Center Facilities

Key Responsibilities
Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:
-Manages and coordinates the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
-Develops and maintains project schedules, collaborating closely with colocation providers to ensure timely delivery of milestones.
-Creates and manages project budgets, ensuring efficient use of resources and cost-effective project delivery.
-Oversees a team of project professionals, providing guidance and support to ensure project goals are met.
-Supervises the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers, ensuring team adherence to standards, effective management of documents, and suitability of all materials for their intended purpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:
-Manages the implementation and oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
-Manages the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, handling daily interactions during design, construction, and commissioning phases.
-Supervises regular site walks, ensuring schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project.
-Oversees the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meet design specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Manages the evaluation of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery.
-Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation and communicates potential impacts to the business.
-Develops and manages the implementation of mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure project success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Manages the primary point of contact role between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective communication and team alignment.
-Develops and maintains key relationships to support internal and external stakeholders effectively, ensuring alignment with departmental goals.
-Supervises the selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance, and supporting the resolution of contract issues.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Manages collaboration with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, ensuring team alignment.
-Provides ongoing colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement, ensuring alignment with departmental goals.
-Supervises the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and supporting the resolution of installation issues.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Creates and owns the execution plan for the team's work and multiple projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines and budgets when applicable to ensure projects are completed on time and in adherence with requirements. Delegates work across the team and helps them prioritize their work. Identifies resource needs and adapts plans based on changing priorities and business needs.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Strengthens collaborative partnerships across teams to align on expectations and shared objectives. Guides team members to build relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure effective collaboration. Practices active listening and asks insightful questions to promote an inclusive culture.
Problem Solving:
-Leads team to identify and address moderately complex operational and/or technical issues in accordance with standard practices, providing guidance as appropriate. Directs team to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot moderately complex errors.
Continuous Learning:
-Actively seeks learning opportunities for self and team to enhance knowledge and skills in key areas and remain current with industry advancements. Uses feedback and training to elevate personal and team skills, modeling a commitment to learning. Identifies skill gaps within the team and supports team members in learning opportunities by providing resources and fostering an environment that encourages knowledge-sharing.
Continuous Improvement:
-Identifies and recommends improvements as well as encourages team to share ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Reviews and provides feedback on team member's ideas and seeks input from others on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.
Performance and Development:
-Coaches and provides direction to team members in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Facilitates goal setting discussions with team members, ensuring individual goals are aligned with broader team goals. Identifies development opportunities to help team member's improve performance. Contributes to the talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, assessing promotion eligibility, and managing talent resources.