Data Center Preconstruction Director

A member of the Balfour Beatty National Data Center - Center of Excellence (CoE), providing company-wide leadership, technical expertise, and best-practice guidance to support successful data center delivery across all divisions. Provides strategic leadership and day-to-day oversight of preconstruction services for mission critical and data center projects. Partners with Business Unit Leaders, Operations, Business Development, Design, Estimating, Procurement, and Project Controls teams to deliver best-in-class preconstruction services from site evaluation through project turnover.

Leads conceptual estimating, budgeting, value engineering, constructability reviews, procurement strategy, scheduling, risk management, and client engagement across multiple data center projects and campuses. Serves as a trusted advisor to clients, consultants, developers, and project teams with expertise in hyperscale, enterprise, colocation, edge, retrofit, and R&D data center environments.

• Lead all phases of preconstruction from project pursuit through GMP development and turnover to Operations.
• Manage multiple mission critical and data center projects while overseeing conceptual budgets, milestone estimates, GMPs, procurement packages, campus cost models, schedules, logistics, and phasing plans.
• Conduct constructability reviews and lead value engineering and Target Value Design efforts to improve safety, quality, schedule, cost, and overall project outcomes.
• Establish estimating standards and best practices across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, low-voltage, and technology systems.
• Review drawings and specifications to identify risks, scope gaps, design inconsistencies, and long-lead procurement concerns.
• Lead subcontractor procurement activities, including bid packaging, bid leveling, scope analysis, and award recommendations.
• Develop strategic relationships with key trade partners, suppliers, manufacturers, and consultants while evaluating labor availability, supply chain constraints, material pricing, and market trends.
• Provide executive-level budget and schedule reporting; coordinate site due diligence, utility assessments, permitting strategies, and early works planning.
• Support standardized data center delivery models, continuous improvement initiatives, and maintain complete documentation of estimates, assumptions, value engineering items, and client communications.

• Provide technical leadership for critical facility systems including utility power infrastructure, switch gear, transformers, generators, UPS systems, fuel systems, chilled water systems, air-cooled systems, CRAH/CRAC systems, fire protection and suppression systems, and telecommunications/fiber infrastructure.
• Participate in strategic planning for hyperscale and enterprise data center campuses.
• Evaluate delivery strategies that optimize speed-to-market, constructability, procurement, labor availability, and schedule acceleration.
• Assess emerging technologies, AI infrastructure requirements, and modular construction approaches.
• Support regional and national mission critical growth initiatives.

• Serve as the primary liaison between Preconstruction and Operations, ensuring seamless project handoff from planning through execution.
• Support development of project execution plans, logistics plans, procurement strategies, subcontracting plans, major equipment procurement plans, and risk registers.
• Coordinate with Operations, Safety, Quality, Scheduling, and Project Controls teams throughout design and procurement.
• Support change management efforts and validate changes against approved…