Senior Design Execution Project Manager

Turner & Townsend • $110K — $130K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or related field
  • Professional licensure (PE, NCARB, RA) preferred; 10+ years of experience may substitute
  • Prior experience in data center design/construction preferred
  • Strong understanding of construction principles and practices
  • Experience in project planning and specification preparation
  • Familiarity with drafting scopes of work
  • Knowledge of government regulations
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Working knowledge of AutoCAD for drawing reviews/mark-ups

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate planning and kickoff workshops with stakeholders
  • Lead design reviews in collaboration with external partners
  • Conduct large-scale workshops as required
  • Draft scopes of work for contracts and secure internal buy-in
  • Issue and manage contracts effectively
  • Define and track deliverables from multiple parties
  • Monitor cost, schedule, progress, and scope
  • Provide health reporting on project parameters
  • Assemble optimal design teams leveraging internal and external resources
  • Implement change management for project scope and design contracts
  • Facilitate technical decisions aligned with project needs
  • Coordinate design activities with procurement and construction
  • Maintain clear communication with all stakeholders and partners
  • Ensure timely distribution of engineering information

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity with travel to project sites (about 30% travel)
  • Supportive corporate culture focused on work-life balance
  • Flexibility in working environment to enhance productivity
  • Encouragement of personal and professional growth opportunities
  • Ability to impact change within the organization
Full Job Description
Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Design Execution Project Manager to run the design activities related to Hyperscale Data Center construction and other projects for a large technology client. Serves as client's agent, consultant, advisor, and authorized owner's representative through all design phases and all design fields until hand-off to client's construction team. Most of the duties and responsibilities are associated with managing, coordinating, and administrating the client's design consultants used in the design efforts. This position is responsible for taking the program level Plan of Record and localizing the design. Ideal candidate is comfortable facilitating large design coordination meetings with multiple design subject areas, including "page turns" design meetings. etc.

This is a remote position with travel to project sites in and around Atlanta, Charleston, and Raleigh. Travel is expected to project sites about 30% of the time.

What you'll do
  • Facilitate planning and kickoff workshops with internal & external stakeholders;
  • Facilitate design reviews in partnership with external partners;
  • Facilitate large scale workshops as necessary;
  • Author scopes of work for contracts and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders;
  • Issue and administer contracts;
  • Define and track deliverables from various parties;
  • Track of cost, schedule, progress and scope;
  • Provide health reporting on cost, schedule, scope and progress;
  • Build optimal design teams from matrixed internal stakeholders and the strategic procurement of external partners;
  • Change management for project scope and design contracts;
  • Facilitate technical decisions in-line with project needs;
  • Coordinate design activities with procurement and construction;
  • Provide clear and open communication with all internal stakeholder and external partners;
  • Ensure the issuance of engineering information to the right party, at the right time, in the right format.


Qualifications

What you'll need
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field
  • Professional licensure (PE, NCARB, RA) is strongly preferred or significant professional experience (+10 years) may substitute
  • Prior experience with data center design and/or construction preferred
  • Strong understanding of construction principles and practices
  • Experience in the preparation of project plans, specifications
  • Experience drafting scopes of work
  • Experience of government regulations
  • Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Working understanding of AutoCAD is necessary for drawing reviews / mark-ups


Additional Information

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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