Feasibility & Constructability Principal

Feasibility & Constructability Principal

Join to apply for the Feasibility & Constructability Principal role at Aligned Data Centers in Rockville, MD. Salary range: $85,000.00–$.

We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. It’s fast‑paced, collaborative, and focused on data center innovation, diversity and inclusion, and corporate sustainability. This role transforms conceptual opportunities into executable, build‑ready projects that reflect Aligned’s speed‑to‑market, repeatability, and quality standards.

Feasibility & Site Readiness

• Collaborate with partner teams during front‑end due diligence across candidate sites, evaluating utilities, geotechnical conditions, zoning, permitting pathways, and community engagement.
• Develop structured site evaluation scorecards that quantify readiness, risk, and cost, enabling data‑driven go/no‑go and site prioritization decisions.
• Direct geotechnical, hydrological, and environmental studies (Phase I/II ESA, ALTA, cultural/historic, flood, and traffic analysis) to inform constructability and schedule risk.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external consultants to define permitting strategy and sequencing, ensuring early awareness of jurisdictional constraints and inspection pacing.

Constructability & Design Integration

• Translate productized design intent into practical field execution—defining constructability parameters, sequencing strategies, and safe access/egress during build.
• Host constructability reviews with Engineering to eliminate clashes, validate module clearances, and resolve interface and tolerance risks before IFC.
• Define the Off Site Manufacturing/Design For Manufacture & Assembly (OSM/DFMA) strategy for new regions or products, identifying components suitable for factory fabrication and establishing test/acceptance standards.
• Collaborate with Platform Delivery, Procurement, Land Enablement and Engineering to ensure design and constructability decisions support scalability, schedule compression, and cost predictability.
• Integrate commissioning early (L1–L5/IST), pushing verification upstream to integrators and vendors whenever practical.
• Drive early decisions on modularization/pre‑fab versus conventional options based on site conditions, customer needs and business requirements.
• Validate design standards versus site realities (geotech, climate, codes/AHJs, utility lead times, environmental).
• Conduct due diligence, constructability assessments, and reviews of construction plans with understanding of architectural design within a data‑center environment.
• Advise stakeholders on optimal design criteria balancing customer needs while maximizing ROI and speed to delivery.

Schedule, Cost, & Risk Management

• Develop ROM estimates, schedule models, and risk registers to establish early cost and timeline predictability for leadership decision‑making.
• Quantify major cost and risk drivers (utility timing, site conditions, logistics, entitlements) and provide scenario analyses with mitigation strategies.
• Validate construction sequencing logic, float, and parallel path opportunities with project delivery teams.
• Ensure lessons learned from past projects inform all new feasibility assessments and design reviews.

Logistics, Packaging & Deployment Readiness

• Partner with Procurement and Delivery Planning to define and execute heavy‑haul and multimodal logistics plans (road/rail/barge), including OS/OW permitting and route validation.
• Establish packaging and preservation standards (shock, tilt, humidity, temperature) for modular and skidded solutions to ensure warranty protection and product integrity.
• Evaluate site accessibility, laydown strategy, and temporary works requirements to de‑risk early mobilization and optimize flow of materials and assemblies to site.

Stakeholder Alignment & Industry Engagement

• Partner with AHJs, utilities, EPC partners, and trade contractors to streamline entitlement, inspection, and interconnection processes.
• Build and maintain relationships with industry‑leading general contractors, integrators, and design partners that align with Aligned’s culture of collaboration, accountability and…