Senior Manager, Constructability – Data Center Delivery

Volta; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity in Volta

Retirement/pension contributions

Health, wellbeing and insurance

Vacation days

Job summary

Volta is seeking a Senior Manager, Constructability, to lead a global constructability function for data center and mission-critical projects. You will build a team, own the constructability review process, and resolve buildability risks with designers, contractors and suppliers to protect schedule and cost.

You will drive sequencing, modular interfaces, and off-site strategies, leveraging BIM and cross-site lessons to raise standards and prevent rework at future sites.

Qualifications

• Senior construction delivery leadership on data centres or complex mission-critical projects.
• Experience leading a team or function, not only individual project delivery.
• A track record running constructability or design assurance across several projects at once.
• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical and structural interfaces, sequencing, logistics and temporary works.
• Experience using BIM or coordinated models to resolve buildability issues at scale.
• Credibility to challenge designers, contractors and senior stakeholders and get decisions made.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of constructability specialists covering multiple concurrent sites.
• Own the global constructability review process at each design stage, with clear gates, decision rights and escalation.
• Make the call on buildability issues before release for construction, balancing cost, schedule, quality and maintainability.
• Set installation and workface strategies aligned with procurement, commissioning and site logistics.
• Define modular and off-site interfaces with OSM, including module sizes, tolerances, transport and lift constraints.
• Report constructability risk and performance to delivery leadership and drive changes into the reference design.
• Turn site lessons into standards that cut rework from one site to the next.

Skills

Leadership

Constructability

Design assurance

Mechanical/electrical/structural know‑

BIM coordination

Credibility to challenge designers

Tools

BIM

OSM

Job description

Volta is seeking a Senior Manager, Constructability, to lead a global constructability function for data center and mission-critical projects. You will build a team, own the constructability review process, and resolve buildability risks with designers, contractors and suppliers to protect schedule and cost.

You will drive sequencing, modular interfaces, and off-site strategies, leveraging BIM and cross-site lessons to raise standards and prevent rework at future sites.