Senior EPC Contract Manager - Data Center Projects

NorthMark Strategies; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthMark Strategies seeks an experienced EPC contract manager to own post-award commercial activities for large-scale data center infrastructure. You will administer EPC agreements, manage change orders, and align equipment interfaces with OEMs and EPC teams across mechanical and electrical scopes.

You will protect schedules, control cost growth, and drive closeout with warranty coordination, reporting to the Grey Space Procurement leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in EPC contract administration or owner's commercial management on capital projects.
• Direct post-award ownership of EPC, EPCM, design-build, or comparable construction agreements at the $50M+ package level.
• Working knowledge of both mechanical and electrical infrastructure to hold commercial ground with contractors and design engineers on scope, changes, and claims.
• Demonstrated experience managing change orders, claims, and back-charges through resolution.
• Working command of progress billing mechanics: schedule of values, stored materials, retention, lien waivers, and earned value.
• Strong contractual literacy — able to read, interpret, and administer EPC agreements, general conditions, exhibits, and change management provisions without leaning on legal for routine execution.
• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, finance, business, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration of the executed EPC agreement through construction and closeout.
• Manage the change order process end-to-end: review, negotiate, and disposition contractor-initiated change requests and owner-directed changes.
• Track and enforce contractual obligations covering scope, schedule, deliverables, insurance, bonding, safety, and reporting.
• Administer progress payments: review pay applications against schedule of values, verify earned value and stored materials, coordinate lien waivers, and manage retention release.
• Manage claims, disputes, back-charges, and liquidated damages events; drive resolution and document positions for the record.
• Coordinate warranty transition from EPC and OEMs to NorthMark Strategies's operations team; ensure warranty terms are captured and enforceable.

Skills

EPC contract administration

Construction contracts management

Owner's commercial management

Change orders management

Claims and back-charges handling

Progress billing / schedule of values

Contractual literacy

Mechanical & electrical infra know-how

Communication with contractors/enginee

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management

Engineering/finance/business background

Tools

Procore

Kahua

e-Builder

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Job description

NorthMark Strategies seeks an experienced EPC contract manager to own post-award commercial activities for large-scale data center infrastructure. You will administer EPC agreements, manage change orders, and align equipment interfaces with OEMs and EPC teams across mechanical and electrical scopes.

You will protect schedules, control cost growth, and drive closeout with warranty coordination, reporting to the Grey Space Procurement leadership.