Senior Project Manager - Owners Rep - Central
T5 Data Centers
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Commitment to Diversity & Military Veterans
- Battle-Tested Leadership Experience
- 100% Data Center Focused
- Owner-Operator Mindset
- Interface with the Client to ensure critical infrastructure integrity.
- Provide oversight across the delivery of ground-up, brownfield, and fitout data center builds and infrastructure upgrades in a design build environment, ensuring alignment with project delivery schedules and stakeholder expectations and full accountability for T5 scope, schedule, quality, and budget.
- Act as the primary onsite representative for the Owner, ensuring consistent alignment between field execution and client expectations.
- Coordinate across disciplines (design, construction, commissioning, controls, networking, security, etc.) to ensure seamless project integration and handoff to operations.
- Oversight of engineering firms & general contractors throughout all project phases, including mobilization, execution, punch list, and turnover.
- Monitor change orders with stakeholders and monitor resolutions to prevent delays and mitigate financial risk.
- Monitor construction progress and prepare regular executive level updates on key metrics, schedule forecasts, constraints/issues, risks, etc. for internal and client stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the T5 Commissioning Lead on commissioning and integrated testing efforts that will verify system performance prior to handoff.
- Deliver constructability input on electrical and mechanical designs for the assigned campus to ensure cost-effective, buildable solutions.
- Contribute to initiatives that improve construction processes, safety practices, and overall efficiency across T5’s growing data center portfolio.
- Apply working knowledge of data center systems including switchgear, generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, fire safety systems, and integrated controls/security infrastructure.
- Weekly executive level reporting to leadership on project status and constraints.
- Coach and mentor direct report(s)
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, required
- 7+ years Project Management experience, required
- Mission Critical Construction industry experience, required
- Data Center experience, preferred
- Individual must be driven, hardworking and dedicated, required
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, required
- An energetic self-starter with a “can do/whatever it takes” attitude who can perform under pressure, work successfully on tight deadlines and identify and resolve problems as they arise, required
- Ability to read and comprehend design drawing packages.
- Leadership, Risk management, stakeholder coordination and collaboration, project controls, problem solving, construction planning skills required.
- Must be proficient in: Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and CAD/Visio, BlueBeam, and Procore
- Ability to support a rotation work schedule of two weeks on the construction site followed by one week remote/home-based.
- Per Diem if traveling
- Bonus eligible
- Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k w/ match
- PTO and Paid Holidays
- Ability to stand, walk, sit, climb, and balance
- Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl using both arms and legs
- Ability to reach, grasp, push, pull, handle, feel, and type with both hands and arms
- Ability to smell, talk and hear
- Ability to see at close and distance ranges and the ability to see and correctly distinguish color
- Ability to lift equipment in small spaces without mechanical assistance, weighing up to 100 pounds
- Ability to work inside and outside