Director, Construction Management

Overview

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. 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.
As part of our exciting growth, we are looking for a Director of Construction Management.

• Dual responsibility to direct day-to-day operations of construction management projects and lead a team of 2-8 direct reports in a geographic region to drive projects from inception through customer or business turnover, with heavy focus and leadership in the preconstruction, construction, commissioning and turnover phases of projects. The Construction Manager operates as the primary support role of the project to the Design Manager (DM) through design phase of the project and assumes overall project leadership role from the DM at GC mobilization.
• Main point of contact for construction management team in particular campus or geographic region.
• Works hand-in-hand with the regional Director, Design Management to ensure performance certainty across all projects.
• Direct the day-to-day operations and long-term strategic direction of active and pipeline construction projects within the region.
• Provide guidance and leadership throughout the entire lifecycle of projects, ensuring they are meeting or exceeding company expectations.
• Develop and maintain deep-rooted industry relationships with leaders in the contracting community including general contractors, trade partners, design partners, and AHJ's.
• Collaborate with Director, Construction Management peers in other regions to maintain consistency across all regions/projects.
• Assist regional Director, Design Management in collaborating/coordinating with other design directors across all regions/projects.
• Assist to interview, hire, and assure effective training and development of new and existing staff.
• Reports status, successes, challenges, and plans of action to management team and company on a timely basis.
• Develop, manage and be accountable for achievement of key departmental metrics.
• Leads, evaluates, holds accountable and develops the regional Construction Management team members in the following:
• Providing guidance and project leadership including ground up construction, remodels, renovations, and fit outs, ensuring performance certainty of projects.
• Organizing and leading cross function work groups, including design, engineering, procurement, land enablement, commercial, operations, IT/network, sales, solutions architecture, legal, brand strategy, finance, and accounting as needed to achieve construction management best practices.
• Developing collaborative relationships with the construction community including general contractors, MEP trade partners, CSA trades, local Authorities Having Jurisdiction, design partners, and other key project vendors and suppliers.
• Active management of project budgeting from project inception through the various design phases and the completion of building turnover.
• Managing budgets during the design phase to utilize cost data as an input to design decisions.
• Direct as many as 25+ external vendors per project…