DC Construction Manager

Description

Fermi America is seeking a Data Center Construction Manager to serve as Fermi’s daily field presence overseeing the design-build partner responsible for delivering its data center buildings.

Under a lump-sum turnkey delivery model, the partner provides design, construction labor, superintendents, and field engineering. Fermi’s role in the field is not to direct that work. It is to verify what is being built and reported—and to remove owner-side obstacles quickly enough that the partner has no basis to claim Fermi caused delays.

Two primary exposures define this position. The first is owner-caused delay. Because the partner controls both design and construction, its strongest claim path is that Fermi was unresponsive. Every access request, field decision, or interference left unresolved can become a source of entitlement. The second is progress-based payment. This role walks the work and confirms that invoiced work is installed, complete, and accurate in quantity.

The boundaries between this position and adjacent roles are deliberate:

• The Director of DC Construction owns the contract and the commercial position with the partner.
• The DC Senior Technical Specialist owns technical conformance with Fermi’s basis of design.
• DC QA/QC and Commissioning owns the quality process and commissioning authority.
• The Data Center Construction Manager owns field reality: what is physically happening on site, whether it aligns with the schedule and pay application, and the conditions present while the work occurs.

This role reports to the Director of DC Construction and works daily with the design-build partner’s construction leadership. It also works closely with the DC Senior Technical Specialist, DC QA/QC and Commissioning, the DC Scheduler, project controls, safety, and the campus power and connectivity teams.

When a DC Project Manager is assigned to a tenant account, this role takes day-to-day field priorities from that Project Manager while continuing to report to the Director of DC Construction. Verification of work in place, progress reporting, and maintenance of the field record remain independent of the Project Manager’s reported cost and schedule position.

This is a full-time, on-site position.

• Serve as Fermi’s daily field interface with the design-build partner’s construction leadership, maintaining a continuous presence at the work face across all active areas of the building.
• Verify physical work in place against reported progress and pay-application quantities, providing the field basis for payment recommendations in coordination with the DC Lead Cost & Invoice Analyst.
• Drive the resolution of owner-side requests, decisions, access needs, and interferences within committed response times. Maintain records demonstrating Fermi’s responsiveness for claims defense.
• Maintain daily and weekly field records, including manpower counts by craft, equipment on site, weather conditions, work performed by area, deliveries, and any condition that could later support or defeat a claim.
• Track schedule adherence at the work face by comparing actual progress with the accepted look-ahead schedule. Escalate constraints to the DC Scheduler and the Director of DC Construction before available float is consumed.
• Coordinate site logistics and mobilization, including site access, laydown and staging areas, craft parking, temporary utilities, crane and heavy-lift coordination, delivery sequencing, and shared use of campus roads and infrastructure.
• Manage field interfaces between building and campus scopes, including power interconnection, connectivity and fiber, adjacent construction activity, and tenant activity on or near the site.
• When a building is delivered as a powered shell, enforce the field demarcation between the base building and tenant fit-out. This includes access, sequencing, and physical conditions where Fermi and tenant work meet. Escalate questions about the location of this boundary to the DC Senior Design Integration Manager rather than resolving them in the field.
• Identify potential scope growth, differing site conditions, and change events at the point they occur.…