[Hiring] Data Center Preconstruction Manager @Serverfarm

Role Description

As a Preconstruction Manager, you will be responsible for assisting with the design, preconstruction and some construction activities on a given project(s). This role is a hands-on, detail-oriented position focused on ensuring projects are well organized and prepared during the pre-construction phase.

• Interact daily with Contractors, Engineers, Commissioning Agents, Clients, Design Consultants, and Vendors.
• Work across multiple projects, helping track progress, align teams, and support execution readiness.
• Manage competing priorities, track complex workflows, and proactively support project execution in a fast-paced environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead coordination between engineering teams, consultants, contractors, owners, and clients to define project scope, document deviations, and align technical requirements from the land due diligence phase through initial/finalized design.
• Drive alignment of evolving owner and client inputs with design standards, budget targets, cash flow considerations, and early schedule milestones.
• Own CDE completion along with BOD generation/deviation management.
• Participate in Client contract/SLA reviews against the CDE and BOD.
• Generate and own initial schedule for the project with other leadership teammates' input and track project deliverables, timelines, and key milestones to ensure alignment across teams.
• Oversee review of precon/design documents, initial engineering related analyses, bid packages, and preliminary schedules to ensure technical compliance, constructability, and commercial viability.
• Generate and maintain precon budget until handover to development project management.
• Integrate preconstruction management into early design, including conceptual budgeting, cost benchmarking, value engineering, scope validation, and early risk identification.
• Partner with procurement and commercial teams to review OFCI strategies, long-lead equipment tracking and planning, and preliminary cost impacts.
• Facilitate structured preconstruction and design alignment meetings to ensure clear decision-making, documented outcomes, and forward momentum.
• Advise development and leadership teams on technical constraints, site limitations, cost drivers, and schedule risks during land evaluation and early project planning.
• Support QA/QC process with site observation visits and confirming validation of engineering intent during design development to ensure deliverables are coordinated, complete, and ready for execution.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams while maintaining accountability for scope control, documentation, budget, and milestone adherence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in construction management, design, design management, or relevant field.
• 5+ years’ experience with data center and/or mission-critical projects’ design/construction.
• Experience with electrical engineering systems and their integration into mission-critical environments.

Preferred Skills

• Proven ability to build and lead complex technical design discussions across engineering teams, consultants, contractors, owners, and clients while maintaining effective working relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder alignment skills, bridging communication gaps, ability to participate in technical discussions and driving consensus across technical and non-technical groups.
• Experience managing design deliverables to meet evolving owner and client requirements while maintaining control of scope, budget, and schedule.
• Working knowledge of preconstruction management, including design-phase budgeting, constructability reviews, value engineering, scope validation, and early risk identification.
• Ability to integrate cost, schedule, and constructability considerations into engineering coordination to ensure designs are executable and commercially viable.
• Solid understanding of data center development workflows, consultant management, and cross-disciplinary engineering coordination.
• Strong organizational, written and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities across cross-functional teams.
• Proactive in identifying risks, problem solving, resolving conflicts, and maintaining momentum across multiple concurrent workstreams with the ability to adapt quickly and learn new tools, processes, and systems.
• Results-driven, highly organized, and accountable for delivering coordinated, constructible design packages aligned with preconstruction and project delivery milestones.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, project management, engineering, or similar.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Benefits

• $170,000 - $190,000 a year.
• Paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• 401k.
• FULL coverage medical, dental, and vision.