Construction Project Manager – Data Centers (Onsite – Charlotte, NC)

About Edged

Edged is a fast-growing global network of carbon neutral, zero-water data centers that leads the industry in energy efficiency. Edged is backed by a deep proprietary technology stack including advanced waterless cooling, renewable microgrid systems, ultra-clean generators, and waste-to-fuel solutions. The platform is designed for rapid deployment and has so far announced nine major projects in construction in the U.S., with many more in development.

The North American division of Edged is a joint venture between an affiliate of Endeavour and one of the largest private multinational corporations with business lines including technology, energy, engineering, as well as other materially related economic sectors. Endeavour is a purpose-driven organization helping innovators to develop and launch solutions for global challenges in the areas of energy, water, and waste to guarantee renewable energy and clean water to everyone, everywhere. Endeavour companies are made up of passionate change-makers who want to leave the world better than the way we found it. Today, Endeavour is deploying solutions that are immediately scalable and profitable, including EV charging, data center cooling, and energy systems.

About the Role
Edged is seeking a Construction Project Manager to support the development and delivery of a major new greenfield data center campus in Salisbury, North Carolina, within the Charlotte market. In this role, you will take ownership of major construction activities from planning and preconstruction through execution, commissioning, and turnover. You’ll work closely with internal development, engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations teams while managing general contractors, trade partners, utilities, schedules, budgets, and project risks.

We’re looking for a hands-on construction leader with strong construction management experience who can lead complex projects, build strong project teams, and help establish the processes and standards needed to successfully deliver large-scale mission-critical infrastructure.

This is a full-time opportunity with base salary, annual bonus, and company equity eligibility, along with a strong long-term pipeline of project work.

Location / Work Arrangement
This is a full-time, onsite role based in Salisbury, North Carolina, within the Charlotte market. Due to the nature and scale of the project, regular onsite presence is required.

Relocation support is available for qualified candidates.

Key Responsibilities

Include but are not limited to:

Program management and oversight of construction related activities for new builds. This will include the ownership of the program scope, timeline, and budget.
Driving costs down and schedules shorter while maintaining quality.
Review of constructability of electrical and mechanical system and building designs associated with the construction of new data centers or the optimization of existing data centers.
Creation of program scope and equipment requirements, assist with request for proposals, award of General Contractor and capital requests.
Total program quality including the assisting with commissioning and integrated system testing and oversight of the execution of the program.
Issue/Manage the Request for Information process during construction and coordinate construction administration with engineers.
Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management.
Concurrently managing multiple programs including new data center building and capital improvement program associated with existing data centers.
Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
Travel to datacenter sites for the management of the Data Center Construction including constructability reviews, startup testing, and full commissioning, as required.
Technical leadership and continuous improvement of schedule, cost, risk, and change management functions.
Responsible to coordinate and work with Regional Senior Program Manager to ensure program cash flow is trending in line with budget and baseline expectations.
Coordinate with program managers to prepare and issue potential owner changes and analyze impact on owner changes to base program.
Coordinate overall process of Monthly billing.
Hands on experience achieving expert-level proficiency with ground-up development, management, and analysis of complex cost-and-resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6, to include verifiable experience performing schedule risk analysis (e.g., Monte Carlo), time impact analysis, critical path analysis, resource leveling, and related qualitative and quantitative schedule evaluations.
Work with Edged Program Managers to ensure Autodesk Data is up to date and produce reports as needed on a periodic basis for Management review and to ensure program is meeting overall budget.

Skills & Requirements

Education / Experience

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction or Project Management, Business Administration, Transportation, or a related field.
Must have a minimum of seven (7)+ years of related experience on complex projects (>$250 million), preferably within the mission critical, digital infrastructure space
Five (5)+ years of experience with electrical, mechanical, controls, security monitoring, fire safety, networking/fiber, utilities, preconstruction, execution, and project closeout
Demonstrated responsibility of successful cost and schedule management on major projects

Specific Skills / Abilities

Experience directly related to the design or construction of large data center facilities, either colocation or client owned/operated.
Previous vendor and contractor/subcontractor negotiation and management skills associated with construction and program execution.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Experience with fast track design/build projects and or multiple significant upgrade projects.
Ability to coordinate within multidisciplinary internal teams

Great Place to Work

Enjoy…

A fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation.
A flexible, autonomous work environment.
A culture of respect, learning, and excellence.
Experienced, highly talented experts as team peers.
Growth and travel opportunities.
A team of change-makers having a significant impact on people and the planet.