Data Center Construction Manager - Owners Rep

Gilder Search Group; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) Plan

Competitive Salaries

Career Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Gilder Search Group is seeking a Data Center Construction Project Manager in Kansas City, MO. This role involves overseeing critical facility construction projects, ensuring leadership to contractors and vendors, and delivering projects on time and within budget.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in the data center construction industry and possess strong project management and client relationship skills. This position offers competitive salaries and benefits, emphasizing career growth and exciting project opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in the data center construction industry.
• Experience managing data center construction projects as an Owner or as a General Contractor.
• Client facing and effective communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain liaison with contractors and vendors for project delivery.
• Manage financial aspects of contracts and protect the company’s interest.
• Deliver Built-to-Suit projects with emphasis on value-engineering.

Skills

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Budget Management

Effective Communication

Computer Proficiency (MS Project, Excel)

Education

BA / BS in relevant field

Tools

MS Project

Excel

P6 Oracle Primavera

AutoCAD

Job description

Data Center Construction Project Manager - Owner's Rep - Kansas City, MO

This opportunity is with a leading provider of mission‑critical data center solutions as a Managed Services Provider as an Owner's Rep for Construction Services. This firm provides a complete life cycle of solutions that are custom‑fit to the requirements of their client's mission‑critical facilities. This opportunity provides a career‑growth minded role with exciting projects with leading‑edge technology and innovation as well as competitive salaries and benefits. They build mission‑critical facilities for data center facilities nationwide for Enterprise, Colocation and Hyperscale Companies.

We are looking for a Data Center Construction Project Manager to support critical facility construction projects. The Construction PM will be responsible for all aspects of managing data center construction projects, upgrades and retrofits in a production environment and act on the Owner's behalf. This will include providing leadership to contractors and vendors associated with the delivery of company projects. The candidate will have overall responsibility for the delivery of assigned projects on budget, on time, and the assurance that the project scope and quality meet Company Design Standards and the objectives set for the project. The successful candidate will have to be exceptionally organized and be great with back office work (change orders, budgets, paperwork‑driven, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Maintain liaison with various contractors and vendors to manage day‑to‑day activities that impact the delivery of the company’s critical facilities construction projects.
• Ensure that all day‑to‑day project responsibilities are met by the contractors and vendors on the project.
• Manage projects such as greenfields, brownfields, upgrades, or retrofits of data centers.
• Negotiate contracts with vendors as necessary and create and manage project schedules.
• Put together project plans – size up, costs, budget, scheduling, timeline, manage change orders, etc.
• Assist with reporting and RFPs to contractors.
• Deliver Built‑to‑Suit projects with a heavy emphasis on value‑engineering.
• Drive company standards uniformly as it regards to project delivery by all project participants on all projects.
• Identify, manage and mitigate areas of concern regarding potential liabilities and risk (fee, company reputation, errors and omissions, etc.) to Management and Region Manager.
• Manage financial aspects of contracts (progress billing, rental equipment, income/expenses) to protect the company’s interest while maintaining good relationships with the client.
• Represent the company in project meetings.
• Act as key liaison with managers of all company departments.
• Maintain all logs required to track the progress of the project.

Qualifications

• BA / BS a plus.
• Experience managing data center construction projects as an Owner or as a General Contractor.
• Data center project experience involving retrofits, upgrades, and capital improvement projects in a live data center environment.
• Must be familiar with the design process of building systems for data center and mission‑critical projects.
• Experience managing budgets.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience in the data center construction industry.
• Belongs to and attends professional organizations such as AFCOM, ASHRAE, 7x24 Exchange, PTC, Datacenterdynamics / DCD, Uptime, iMasons, Bisnow, etc.
• Client facing / client relationship / client management skills.
• Solid construction project management experience.
• Effective communicator – emails, phone, and face‑to‑face.
• Ability to work independently.
• Travel as needed to project sites.
• Solid admin skills.
• Computer savvy: MS Project, Excel, P6 Oracle Primavera, AutoCAD a plus.
• Previous experience in the military / military veterans a huge plus! Experience with electrical / mechanical: Navy nukes – EMN, ETN, MMNs, Seabees; Army – power generation; Air Force – power production, generator techs; Maritime, Coast Guard, Army National Guard, etc.

Company offers competitive salaries and benefits package including medical insurance, a 401(k) plan.

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