Hybrid Director, Special Projects

at Vantage Data Centers

• Job title: Director, Special Projects
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $200,000 - $210,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Ashburn, United States

About the role

• Director of Special Projects overseeing maintenance capital projects at Vantage Data Centers. Responsible for planning, execution, and collaboration across teams ensuring construction project success.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of maintenance capital project portfolio, including planning, pre-construction, design, permitting, competitive bidding, team selection, construction, commissioning, and project closeout
• Create and run project budgets and establish monthly forecasts, including variances
• Act as leader with vision and drive coordination and integration of internal collaborators within the project
• Guide direct reports and third-party project management resources and track staffing utilization
• Ensure all elements of customer construction align with Vantage’s safety and data center work rules
• Partner with customers and internal Vantage teams to standardize customer construction delivery across the Vantage portfolio that minimizes impact/drag on Vantage resources
• Own resource allocation and project workflow for direct reports and third-party project management continent workforce
• Drive day-to-day construction decisions to conclusion
• QA/QC work products of direct reports to confirm accuracy by handling inputs and delivery of work products from internal team members to ensure new data center spaces align with all customer-applicable requirements
• Work with the internal team members and customers to create scope, schedule and budgets for their projects to receive yearly project budget approval
• Support sales in customer engagement and fulfillment of requirements as tied to leases
• Ensure delivery is in accordance with leases for readiness projects
• Partner with Director, Construction Cost & Finance to produce monthly project forecasts including variance analyses as well as execution of Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and project authorizations for new and existing contractors and vendors
• Vendor/Contractor management including qualification and relationship building/maintenance
• Review monthly billing with direct reports, confirm substantiation and audit vs budget
• Ensure ‘lessons learned’ are held and placed in the feedback loop to drive continuous improvement
• Ensure project team aligns with project turnover documentation requirements to Operations
• Work closely with Operations to coordinate design criteria and construction with ongoing maintenance and operation of existing facilities
• Additional duties as assigned by Management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or similar field, or equivalent experience
• 7 to 10 years of experience in a management role required, 10 to 15 years preferred
• Complex and technical construction experience is required
• Data Center experience is preferred
• Experience in CSA (civil, structural, architectural) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction management is a requirement
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and project management tools like MS Project or P6
• Travel required is expected to be 30% but may increase over time as the business evolves

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• life and AD&D
• short and long-term disability coverage
• paid time off
• employee assistance
• participation in a 401k program that includes company match
• many other additional voluntary benefits