Senior Data Center Project Manager- Infrastructure
Senior project manager delivering data center and real estate projects for a large financial client — handling planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout, with a focus on critical facilities power and network infrastructure. Remote role with client-site travel; based ideally in Twin Cities, Birmingham AL, or Chicago, Central Time preferred.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Birmingham, Alabama, us
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Must have
- 8-10 years of relevant experience
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Expert organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset
- Ability to travel to client sites
- Innovative mentality to develop methods beyond existing solutions
- Ability to solve unique problems using standard and innovative solutions with broad business impact
- Adherence to SOX control responsibilities where applicable
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent combination of experience and education)
- Experience with critical facilities infrastructure, power distribution, UPS, network and sustainability
- Based in Twin Cities, Birmingham AL, or Chicago IL
- Central Time Zone availability
Full description
As a T&T | CBRE Senior Project Manager- Data Center Operations you will be responsible for providing senior project management services to one of our large financial clients on their data center projects.
Experience with critical facilities infrastructure, power distribution, delivery systems, interrupted power supply, network and sustainability distribution is highly preferred. This is a remote role with travel to the client sites. Ideally, we are looking for someone based in the Twin Cities, Birmingham, Alabama or Chicago, Illinois. Central Time Zone is preferred and the ability to travel. What You’ll Do:
- Manage all areas of project management for multiple real estate projects. This includes planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.
- Work directly with clients to prepare all elements of the project. This includes the scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimates & budget, work plan schedule & milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
- Define the project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists or through the project qualification process. Conduct complex requests for proposals, complete bid evaluations, and recommend resources to clients.
- Facilitate the development of a charter and integrated timeline.
- Ensure all functions remain on schedule and issues get resolved or escalated.
- Facilitate regular meetings to review project status for active and pending projects.
- Collaborate to develop solutions and guide the project team through implementation and completion.
- Apply advanced knowledge to seek and develop new, better methods for accomplishing both individual and department objectives.
- Showcase expertise in own job discipline and in-depth knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function.
- Coach others to develop in-depth knowledge and expertise in most or all areas within the function.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels and of divergent interest, to adopt a different point of view.
- Impact the achievement of customer, operational, project, or service objectives across multi-discipline teams. Work is guided by functional policies which impact the design of procedures and policies.
- Contribute to new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans in support of achieving functional goals.
- Communicate difficult and complex ideas with the ability to influence.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-10 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
- The innovative mentality to develop methods that go beyond existing solutions.
- Ability to solve unique problems using standard and innovative solutions having a broad impact on the business.