Data Center Construction Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Be required to organize, attend, and facilitate on-site kick meetings with local teams to support a successful program execution start. Or may be required to travel to program sites for key program milestones. The quantity of travel at any given time may fluctuate in line with the number of programs being worked on and key milestones in individual programs.
• Will help lead weekly progress meetings with the local teams, global programs team, and any other key internal stakeholders.
• Will take minutes, ensuring to document all open issues and decisions made.
• Has as a project goal to avoid compensated project delay not occasioned by owner direct changes and will work to identify and mitigate such circumstances.
• Will act as a program point of contact for the owner's project stakeholders and inform the owner on a continuous and ongoing basis as to the coordination, budget, schedule, and quality implications of the owner's ongoing activities and decisions during the project.
• Help facilitate internal coordination of activities and interaction of all project team members. For clarity, this is not to say or is responsible for the coordination of all team interaction, but rather, when issues of collaboration or communication arise, will help to facilitate reasonable solutions and outcomes.
• Review the schedule and construction procedures.

Job Description:

• Support implementation by the local teams of global programs defined schedule tools including integrated P6 schedule format, identifying critical tasks, dependencies, and durations for all major activities within the Project schedule. They will audit to ensure it follows proper Owner schedule requirements. The intent is that the OR acts as a facilitator to transfer field-level information from various project teams to the centralized project service group in support of their defined process.
• Study alternative schedules and concurrent activities between projects and identify opportunities for the Owner to improve delivery.
• Incorporate all key milestones in the sourcing of all Project Team members and include their commitment to those milestones during the sourcing of their respective services and work to ensure that all stakeholders are guided by the schedule as opposed to acting as constraints to achieving the schedule.
• Consolidate consultant and contract schedules and evaluate progress such that agreed-upon Project Milestones are maintained.
• Routinely review the schedule details and identify any flaws in the schedule that may impact the timely completion of the Project.
• Manage efforts of the Project Team to eliminate impacts to the timely completion of the Project.
• Perform problem-solving tasks with respect to any portion of the work that is behind schedule while providing regular and transparent communication to the Owner.
• Coordinate, Program kickoff meeting at the start of construction including review of all construction administration processes and procedures and creation of documentation for the same.
• Report on matters requiring decision by the Owner regarding the design, specifications, costs, schedule, or program.
• Review these issues with the Owner and make recommendations on critical decisions supported by analysis and data.
• Attend meetings with the Owner, other consultants, and internal stakeholders as needed to keep the project on track.