Senior Development Project Manager (WTX)
QTS (data centers) is hiring a Senior Development Project Manager to lead design, preconstruction, and construction of data center campus projects in the western US — managing budgets, schedules, entitlements, procurement, and contractors. Requires commercial construction management experience, Excel/PowerPoint skills, up to 25% travel, and US citizenship.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- West, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in commercial construction practices, including Lump Sum, CM at Risk, and Design Build delivery from concept through closeout
- Experience with Microsoft Office suite, specifically PowerPoint for executive updates and Excel for budgets
- Able to travel up to 25% of the time
- US Citizenship required by law due to federal customer contracts
Nice to have
- MBA, Masters in Engineering, Management, or related field
- Experience with delivery of mission critical data center facilities
- Extensive experience with management of MEP trades
Full description
The Senior Development Project Manager is primarily responsible for leading and managing the design, preconstruction and construction activities on a given project(s). The Project Manager will interact on a daily basis with Facilities, Contractors, Designers, Engineers, Commissioning Agents, Vendors, and Data Center Operations staff and should have both written and oral communication skills commensurate with this level of regular communication.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Other duties may be assigned.
- Manage multiple projects on a campus(es) and maintain updated budgets, schedules, and status reports for each
- Create and communicate updates on development program & project status on a monthly basis suitable for executive level reviews. Effectively present information in a manner to support efficient decision making
- Work with QTS stakeholders, design, and construction teams to create a master development program for site(s), including a complete campus design solution and capital budget.
- Manage entitlement and permitting needs for each assigned site project(s)
- Implement and manage multi-phased site development plans to achieve time, budget, and quality standards in a predictable fashion. Continuously update a campus master plan to provide predictable statistics in a dynamic environment
- Write scopes of work for design, construction, commissioning services & participate in procurement and project cost estimates
- Evaluate and level pricing proposals for design, construction, and commissioning services
- Work closely with strategic procurement team on equipment procurement and delivery process
- Ensure appropriate submittals are coordinated with site stakeholders
- Monitor & create project budget / cost-to-date against overall project budget.
- Establish project schedules and manage teams to on-time completion
- Review and approve monthly pay applications from the contractors
- Review change order requests from contractors and negotiate pricing
- Establish site construction security procedures in conjunction with site security team
- Develop plans for product deployment and review / communicate plans with QTS staff involved
- Collaborate with Sales Engineers and Product teams to aid in custom deal solutioning for prospective clients within the applicable schedule and budget for an assigned location.
- Establish and maintain relationships serving as liaison with key QTS stakeholders
- Represent QTS Interests as leader in OAC meetings