Construction Manager

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The Construction Manager is primarily responsible for leading and managing the implementation of the safety, quality, schedule, cost, commissioning, design, the pre‑construction plan, procurement, contracting and construction activities on a given site. This role is specifically focused on larger sites where complexity or long‑term construction activity warrants dedicated leadership for successful delivery of new Major Capital projects, including project oversight, direction, and strategy over multiple $100+ Million data center construction projects, particularly relating to safety, schedule, scope, budget, and quality.

• Establish and sustain site health, safety, and security controls in accordance with corporate objectives.
• Manage individual and multiple construction projects on a campus(es) to establish and maintain project and program budgets, schedules, risk identification/management and reports.
• Create and communicate updates for current status including plan, actual, variance, risk, and mitigation measures.
• Provide data‑driven action plans for executive decision making to manage and effectively present information in a manner to support efficient decision making.
• Use project schedule and budget to develop and implement resource‑loaded workplans, cash‑flow projections and earned value management targets for each project.
• Manage the schedule and associated risks to ensure reliable and predictable turnover dates.
• Mitigate risk for the project through pre‑planning, innovative planning, and partnership.
• Develop cost savings solutions and identify project savings/underruns early.
• Partner with the general contractor, vendors, and internal cross‑functional partners to build a culture of collaboration.
• Coordinate needs and asks with the procurement/sourcing group(s) to support the needs of the project.
• Support strategy, finance, and pre‑construction teams to develop reliable project goals for due diligence, site master planning, and project definition, schedule, capital project budgets and construction ROMs.
• Lead internal cost managers to complete proposal and bid evaluations, complete owner award authorizations, and manage final approval within NTT Global Data Centers Americas.
• Support the site construction project manager with the campus‑wide book of work including contractor, designer, and vendor management.
• Develop/monitor quality program metrics to evaluate the project’s performance. Analyze said metrics to understand the root cause of any disconcerting trends and then work with the applicable parties to correct those items.
• Contribute to building a high performing team by mentoring and developing the on‑site partner construction QA/QC team.
• Manage the on‑site QA/QC inspection process to drive closure of punch‑list items and an expeditious turnover to operations.
• Examine all submittals (in particular MEP submittals) for quality assurance and provide comments to ensure all documents are compliant.
• Develop, review, and approve, if required, Level 1–5 related to product and process quality such as construction quality procedures (CQPs) and checklists, technical deliverables, and test procedures and plans.
• Recommend and verify effective implementation of corrective and preventive actions for project non‑conformances and quality issues, in coordination with project and quality management, design, engineering, construction and other functional disciplines.
• Develop and implement project level scope, sourcing and contracting for construction, commissioning services, to include review of the commissioning agent’s Level 4 and 5 commissioning scripts and provide feedback.
• Review of turnover documentation package for completeness and accuracy to support…