Senior Project Manager - Data Centers Development at Turner & Townsend — Portland, OR

Key responsibilities:

Client and Program Leadership

• Serve as the primary day-to-day client representative and trusted advisor for assigned data center development projects.
• Manage client relationships through proactive communication, issue resolution, and strategic guidance.
• Lead project governance processes, reporting, stakeholder management, and executive-level presentations.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary consultant teams and ensure alignment across all project stakeholders.
• Support business development initiatives and identify opportunities for expanded service delivery within client accounts.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with developers, investors, landowners, utility providers, consultants, and local authorities.

Development Management

• Lead data center projects from site screening and acquisition through development and readiness for construction execution.
• Manage development schedules, budgets, risks, and key project milestones.
• Oversee feasibility studies, site evaluations, due diligence activities, and technical assessments.
• Coordinate development activities including:
• Site selection
• Land acquisition support
• Utility assessments
• Capacity and infrastructure evaluations
• Environmental due diligence
• Zoning and entitlement processes
• Permitting strategies
• Infrastructure planning
• Track and manage project development risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure development activities align with overall client business objectives, schedule requirements, and investment criteria.

Design Phase Services

• Support development of Minimum Functionality Case, plus enhancement identification.
• Support and contribute to Value Engineering efforts (selection, coordination, comment follow-up and verification).
• Assist in identifying long-lead items procurement items, providing input/feedback/research related to construction market conditions.
• Assist with preparation of request for proposal for general contractor and commissioning agent procurements.
• Assist in establishing the success criteria for the project construction, including schedule, cost, technical and quality performance parameters.
• Review design and construction drawings against project requirements and for constructability issues and concerns, with follow-up and verification with GC and A/E.
• Participate in risk identification and mitigation planning for cost and schedule risks.
• Assist in developing baseline schedule and provide regular progress update on all activities.
• Participate in Criticality Assessment (workshop to identify critical aspects of design and construction that may require owner witness/hold points and oversight of inspection, testing and acceptance).

Design and Construct

• Participate in Interface with local authorities having jurisdiction, developers, on issues regarding site development, e.g., utility tie-ins, permitting, etc.
• Participate in review of Product Data Submittals in coordination with technical reviewers.
• Coordinate with Commissioning Agent during development of Commissioning Plan and execution of Plan.
• Review project submittals and RFI.

• Reviews the general contractors and key subcontractors project schedule for alignment with contract requirements.
• Provide oversight of general contractor during construction phase activities, including regular site visits and review construction work.
• Attend daily construction status meetings and Owner, Architect, Contractor meetings as scheduled.
• Review and report on the overall construction effort and progress.
• Evaluate of the project schedule with relation to actual field production.
• Coordination with Cost and Scheduling representatives for project reporting and dashboard updates.
• Coordination with Document Controller to ensure project documentation is loaded into client system of record.
• Supports observation and issue tracking/resolution and punch-list, coordination with A/E.
• Support In-Process and Final Inspection and Test activity conducted by GC and Commissioning Agent.

Education/Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years’ project management experience with a significant focus on data center development projects.
• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Real Estate Development, Architecture, Project Management or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects from land acquisition through handover to construction or delivery teams
• Strong financial, commercial and risk management capabilities
• Proficient – expert experience level using Microsoft tools (MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Strong understanding of data center development, entitlement, and pre-construction processes.
• Ability to lead, coordinate & organize multiple stakeholders including general contractor and deliver project/program status reports as required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.
• Develops good working relationships with project team and clients
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast paced consulting environment
• Ability to travel up to 25% as required by clients.

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