Vice President, Construction, NA

Vantage Data Centers; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Vice President of Construction to lead and scale their construction department. This pivotal role involves overseeing construction operations, managing talented teams, and ensuring successful project delivery across various campuses. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale data center development and a strong background in construction management. With a commitment to collaboration and continuous improvement, this position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly expanding company that values innovation and sustainability. Join a forward-thinking organization where your leadership will drive success and shape the future of data center construction.

Benefits

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401k program with company match

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Short and long-term disability coverage

Qualifications

• 10-20 years of management experience in construction required.
• Experience with large-scale data center development is essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee construction operations and manage project teams.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Drive collaboration between internal teams and external contractors.

Skills

Construction Management

Project Management

Budget Management

Team Leadership

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management

Job description

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Construction Department

The Construction team is responsible for the management of delivering data centers from conception through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, Development, and Engineering along the way. Construction also works closely with partner contractors to come up with a vertically integrated design and manages these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our technical staff is given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high-impact decisions and even more impactful results.

Position Description

With several active campuses, and planned expansion into more additional North American locations, Vantage is looking for a proven leader to grow and scale a region within the construction department at Vantage. The team consists of construction professionals at varying experience levels at each of our campuses. The successful candidate will manage existing and build additional talented teams that have an exceptional construction capability and strong reputation within the industry with both customer and contractor communities.

As Vice President of Construction, your responsibilities will include construction operations oversight and delivering data center projects of increasing size and complexity. Collaboration and integration in the sales lifecycle process including client interface is integral to the role. As Vantage continues to expand you will peer with the D&E and Finance teams focused on cost and schedule reduction to integrate change management and product optimization into new and ongoing projects, while providing lessons learned into the overall feedback loop for analysis and modification.

This role can be based in the Central or Midwestern United States. Significant travel is required (see job Requirements).

Essential Job Functions

• Oversee the management and administration of construction functions across all active markets
• Manage a team of construction directors responsible for each campus
• Hold teams accountable to manage overall campus CAPEX budgets and ensure all regions comply with financial controls and policies
• Drive teams to execute all phases of construction including pre-construction, competitive bidding, team selection, construction, commissioning, and project closeout
• Ensure customers are satisfied and any issues with their services are remediated in future builds
• Act as thought leader and drive coordination and integration of internal stakeholders across all regions

Duties

• Drive teams who manage execution of development projects from planning through commissioning and close out / turnover to operations
• Drive output of various reports on a monthly and/or quarterly basis for review at leadership level
• Own resource allocation and project work flow for direct reports and third-party project management continent workforce
• Encourage and foster a team-oriented environment through positive feedback
• Evaluate and manage performance reviews for your team. Seek out input from others and provide feedback and coaching to manage individuals as well as the team.
• Working with management, assist with creation of campus and project CAPEX budgets
• Support sales in customer engagement and fulfillment of requirements as tied to leases and manage delivery in accordance with leases
• Partner with Construction Cost team, Finance to drive forecast/variance analysis, master service agreements (MSA) and project authorizations for new & existing contractors and vendors are executed
• Vendor/Contractor management including qualification and relationship building/maintenance
• Ensure lessons learned are held and placed in the feedback loop to drive continuous improvement
• Work closely with the Operations to coordinate design criteria and construction with ongoing maintenance and operation of existing facilities
• Additional duties as assigned by Management

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or similar field, or equivalent experience
• 10-15 years of experience in management role required, 15 to 20 years preferred
• Large Scale greenfield Data Center campus development experience is required
• Experience in CSA (civil, structural, architectural) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction management is a requirement
• Travel required is expected to be 50-75%.

Physical Demands and Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

• Salary Range: $230,000-260,000 Base + Bonus (this range is based Colorado on market data and may vary in other locations)
• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
• Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer