Design Manager

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Does the thought of joining one of the fastest-growing, privately held data center companies sound exciting to you? Do you enjoy collaborating with team members to drive and operate some of the industry s leading and most innovative infrastructure solutions? At Aligned Data Centers, not only do we celebrate success across our platform, we celebrate the very teams that drive and support that success!

Our culture is founded in passion, engineered from innovation, and driven by the pursuit of operational excellence. We are a company dedicated to driving positive change in the industry through continuous data center innovation, diversity and inclusion, and corporate sustainability.

We realize not only is providing a comprehensive benefits package important, but we also provide a generous 401k match with immediate vesting, free membership to Gympass which provides our employees a rich health and wellness benefit and competitive time off plan. Giving back and having fun is important to our team whether it be serving our communities or employee and customer events.

Our Aligned DNA is what makes us unique and successful! As part of our exciting growth, we are currently searching for a Design Manager.

This individual will support all aspects of major technical programs that are targeting both colocation and hyperscale builds, including oversight of employees and third-party organizations engaged in the preconstruction, design and construction phases. Working under supervision, this role requires strong communication skills, and demonstrates advanced organizational and time management competencies. A successful Design Manager with Aligned will possess a hunger to drive efficiencies and innovation, the humility to understand we are all working together during the construction process, and a heart to provide exceptional service to both internal and external customers and vendors.

• Drive projects from inception through customer or business turnover, with heavy focus and leadership in the preconstruction and design phases of projects. The Design Manager assumes project lead role at design hand-off meeting from the land enablement team and shifts overall project leadership to the Construction Manager (CM) at GC mobilization.
• Direct accountabilities include:
  Coordination/communication with the land enablement group to ensure success with offsite improvements, early permitting, easements and environmental studies.
• Coordination/creation of project risk registers from land enablement phase through project completion/turnover to Aligned Operations.

• Lead/coordinate onboarding of third-party design team and creation of design schedule to support project needs.
• Oversee management of external third-party design team through project completion/turnover to Aligned Operations.
• Drive review and management of design deliverables; including stakeholder review and comment cycles.
• Hold design team accountable to design progression and design gating.
• Work with SMEs, Operations, and CMs to ensure design compliance with Aligned Design Efficiency Capture (DEC).
• Identify design variances, track them and manage acquisition of necessary approvals, as required.
• Enforce design team’s accountability to Aligned’s Cost Control Log (CCL) and Complies, Deviates, Excludes (CDE) matrices.
• Operate in lockstep with the CM on each project to ensure proper communications/escalations and regular reporting to all internal and external parties and leadership/management.
• Creates, manages and updates project metrics in Smartsheets (project dashboards) for each project.
• Owns or directs all administrative duties related to design management process.
• Assists CM with building and maintaining budget/cost models/all phases’ budgets for each project, specifically around design costs and timelines. Works with CM to prepare and present all funding requests.
• Coordinates with CM to prepare and present quarterly project updates for leadership.
• Conduct technical…