Senior Associate Specialist - Planning & Commissioning

Job Description

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The Senior Associate Construction Project Manager is a developing subject matter expert, responsible for supporting the overall project success, including project oversight, direction, and strategy over multiple data center construction projects of significant value, particularly relating to safety, schedule, scope, budget, and quality.

This role works under general supervision of a more senior construction project manager with the team.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains relationships with key customers, operations, finance, and internal department leaders to assure project team fulfils the mission and objectives of the capital projects.
• Directs and supports project teams in the preparation and execution of tasks throughout all phases of the project process; includes identifying scopes of work, resource requirements, cost estimates and budgets, work plan schedule and milestones, quality control, and risk mitigation.
• Supports design team leadership for environmental, entitlement and permitting requirements.
• Provides guidance to the project delivery resources/team in achieving project goals. Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed.
• Facilitates project meetings. Implements and aligns project documentation governance with company requirements. Ensures project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
• Reports status and variances and creates action plans to meet objectives, budget, and schedule. Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure internal approvals, and manage change throughout the coursed of the project.
• Assesses and quantifies change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk.
• Optimizes project cost effectiveness and budget utilization including constructability reviews and Value Engineering (VE) into design process.
• Supports with validating drawings and specifications accurately to reflect the desired construction quality and ensure any item requiring remediation is documented and remediated to owner satisfaction.
• Monitors and assures systems are in place to deliver highest quality standards for project safety- from start to finish.
• Monitors and controls risk management insurance and liability controls for assigned projects.
• Performs any other related task as required.


Knowledge and Attributes:

• Relevant understanding of Project Management, Planning, Construction Management, and Data Centers.
• Knowledge of prime contracts including lump sum, GMP, hard bid, negotiated, design-build, etc. Specifically including EVM methods and payment systems.
• Knowledge of P6 Critical path scheduling systems, overall project cost control, budgeting, and value engineering as applied to buildings and systems used in Data Centre project delivery.
• Familiarity of all aspects of Development design and Construction- to include site work, core, and shell, mechanical and electrical, utilities, finishes, etc.
• Ability to convey complex and technical concepts to a non-construction audience.
• Organized, analytical, and structured with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Manages stress and/or fast pace effectively.
• Knowledge of industry standards, building codes and safety standards including fire protection regulations.
• Ability to demonstrate strong capability and expertise in Primavera, MS Project, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• LEAN Construction knowledge and application of those tools.
• Mechanical and Electrical systems quality and commissioning leadership in construction of Mission Critical Facilities.


Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, business, construction management or relevant field required.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is preferred.
• Relevant building Environment Accreditation required.


Required Experience:

• Moderate level experience in General and/or Specialty Construction Project Management.
• Moderate level experience in data centre or similar mission critical facilities construction.
• Moderate level experience in managing construction projects of significant value.
• Moderate level experience in construction management, capital budget management, and knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems.
• Moderate level multi-project experience in large scale construction management, mission critical or infrastructure preferred.

Workplace type:

On-site Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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