Key
Responsibilities
Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:
-Leads and manages the construction of data
centers by colocation providers, ensuring projects are completed on time,
within budget, and to high-quality standards.
-Develops and maintains detailed project
schedules, coordinating with colocation providers to ensure timely milestone
delivery.
-Manages project budgets, optimizing resource
allocation to ensure cost-effective project execution.
-Supervises multiple project teams, offering
strategic direction and resolving any issues that may arise during project
cycles.
-Leads the creation, review, and maintenance of
documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving
papers, guaranteeing team compliance with standards, effective document
management, and the suitability of all materials for their intended purpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:
-Leads the management of quality control processes
to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry
standards.
-Oversees the coordination and integration of
tenant fit out projects, ensuring effective communication and addressing
challenges during design, construction, and commissioning phases.
-Supervises comprehensive site walks to ensure
schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
-Directs the startup and commissioning phases of
major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meet
design specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Oversees the evaluation of risk profiles
associated with timely project delivery for multiple projects.
-Addresses gaps in risk identification and
mitigation and communicates potential impacts to senior management.
-Develops and oversees the implementation of
mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure project
success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Oversees the primary point of contact role
between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective
communication and coordination across multiple teams.
-Develops and maintains strategic relationships to
support internal and external stakeholders effectively, contributing to
strategic planning and decision-making.
-Leads the selection, negotiation, and management
of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring
contract compliance and performance, and overseeing the resolution of
significant contract issues.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Oversees collaboration with design teams to
ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and
specifications, coordinating across multiple teams.
-Provides strategic colocation provider evaluation
input for continuous improvement, contributing to strategic planning and
decision-making.
-Leads the installation of power, cooling,
networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality
standards and overseeing the resolution of significant installation issues.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects
or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when
applicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work,
setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting
plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on
expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members
to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and
external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes
inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring
others feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Provides direction to multiple teams on
addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing
guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.
Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the
team to identify potential solutions.
Continuous Learning:
-Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen
expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into
strategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill
improvements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to
pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise
in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
Continuous Improvement:
-Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and
implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,
protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guides
team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages
feedback for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
-Drives performance across teams by providing
feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines,
and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members, shares
opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals
are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and manages talent
acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion
eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.
