General Manager, Construction Las Cruces, NM

General Manager, Construction job at STACK Infrastructure. Las Cruces, NM.

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meet or exceed the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need.

The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

The General Manager, Construction is responsible for leading the full scope of a multi-phase, campus-scale data center construction project including the installation of significant civil and site work infrastructure, construction of data center buildings, and the coordination of delivery of supporting infrastructure. STACK is seeking a candidate with senior-level experience from development to tenant delivery of multi-billion dollar turnkey data center campuses.

The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the full project, including leading project teams including Vice Presidents, Directors, and Sr. Project Managers from initial planning and design to construction and close-out. This role requires the ability to lead internally and externally, communicate effectively at all levels of design and construction, and a thorough understanding of construction processes.

Effective collaboration with Executives, Directors, clients, and support teams executing all phases of the project and related scopes of work will be of paramount importance. A successful candidate will have experience in negotiating with contractors, consultants, and other vendors, managing schedules and budgets, optimizing costs through value engineering, and working effectively with design, strategy and client teams across the entire North American portfolio.

The candidate will have senior level experience in influencing positive business outcomes in challenging situations where direct control is shared both internally and externally. The General Manager, Construction assumes key responsibility for leading the cross-functional, dedicated client team for a large-scale global tenant. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience leading and directing large, complex construction projects and an ability to understand and align stakeholder interests.

• Hold primary leadership for the Project Owner Budgets across the project, ensuring accurate and timely updates through to completion
• Lead and ensure a culture of safety, quality, collaboration and professionalism across the region
• Provide high-level direction to the GC, Owner vendors and other trade partners as required
• Review and negotiate Construction Schedules from GCs and Owner-direct vendors as required and prepare/present schedule overviews as required
• Be accountable for GC Contract Negotiations and Administration, including coordination with STACK Legal
• Prepare and deliver reports, analysis and presentations for other STACK teams, the Senior Leadership Team, the Board and other parties as required
• Manage Client relations as required, including interface with STACK’s funding partner and Senior Leadership Team
• Lead, manage, mentor and develop STACK project teams dedicated to the project, fostering and championing a collaborative and high-morale culture
• Collaborate successfully with other STACK teams, including Strategy, Sales Engineering, EH&S, Finance and Operations

• Experience leading multiple large-scale, fast-moving projects across a region and a proven track‑record of developing a collaborative and high-morale team culture
• Strong leadership skills, high emotional intelligence, and a proven track record in leading, managing and developing teams
• Client‑facing and team leadership experience required
• Knowledge and competency with Bluebeam and BIM platforms is a plus
• Excellent financial acumen (familiarity with Net Suite preferred, but not…