Data Center Global Program Manager - Project Management Director
Full Time
Dallas, TX 75201
Posted
Job description
Posted
17-Apr-2023
Service line
GWS Segment
Role type
Full-time
Areas of Interest
Construction, Data Centers, Executive Management, Project Management
Location(s)
Atlanta - Georgia - United States of America, Dallas - Texas - United States of America, Houston - Texas - United States of America, Los Angeles - California - United States of America, Miami - Florida - United States of America, Minneapolis - Minnesota - United States of America, Mountain View - California - United States of America, Omaha - Nebraska - United States of America, Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - United States of America, Portland - Oregon - United States of America, San Francisco - California - United States of America, Seattle - Washington - United States of America, Sunnyvale - California - United States of America, Washington - District of Columbia - United States of America, Washington, D.C. - District of Columbia - United States of America
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a significant contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, demonstrating the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.
About the role
The Data Center Program Manager runs global program upgrade/retrofit projects impacting the critical infrastructure and MEPS Infrastructure for the client’s data center portfolio. This position leads complex, multi-disciplinary projects and is responsible for identifying the program requirements, engaging with internal customers and supporting the program through the entire project lifecycle.
What you’ll do
Program Administration
- Own the upgrades/retrofit construction project program process administration across the project portfolio. Focus is on ability to lead multiple projects at one time over multiple global locations
- Develop program budget, cash flow and commitment and get approval on spend working with the client’s Cost Control team
- Lead cross-functional teams and run multiple simultaneous programs with contending priorities simultaneously
- Engage with experts and key collaborators to initiate new programs, including developing program documentation
- Identify process and communications gaps, while developing and driving solutions to implement data center programs
- Lead and grow relationships between cross-functional teams. Work with the key collaborators to continually improve communications between the cross-function teams
- Draft program reporting for client management reviews, including providing health of program schedule, budget, and performance, identifying key risks and program opportunities
- Update quarterly forecast, budget spend status and get management approval on funding requests
- Drive improvement in the upgrade/retrofit program processes and documentation/ workflow through stakeholder feedback and/or based on measurement of meaningful metrics
- Develop plans for improved field execution and delivery across project constraints of schedule, efficiency, and costs
- Provide project execution guidance throughout end-to-end project lifecycle with ability to assess potential construction workarounds to avoid project slips
- Lead team, including key collaborators / project controls team / Contractor(s) / A&E design team to build and establish the 1) Master Project Schedule, based on the Critical Path and key turning points and 2) Master Project Budget, including soft costs and hard costs
- Evaluate technical issues and develop potential solutions for review with key stakeholders
- Supports Design Team activities by participating in schematic and design development reviews
- Support data center site teams as needed with contractor pre-qualification, bid solicitation, bid analysis and recommendations
- Participates in constructability reviews of the project documents
- Provide input to teams on Value Engineering efforts
- Lead project teams in developing, assessing, and evaluating program and project risks
Construction
- Lead program costs and change controls
- Supervise program dashboards and monthly program updates.
- Develop and maintain lessons learned log for programs
- Coordinate Value Engineering
- Ensure program level document control processes are in place
- Ensure QA/QC is being followed and report any issues/gaps
- Coordination and management of all Owner-direct vendors working with supply chain and consultants
- Establish close out documentation requirements and distribute to site teams
- Lead a team of direct and matrix report. Responsibilities include recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action, and termination
- Monitors appropriate staffing levels and reports on utilization and deployment of human resources
- Leads and supports staff in areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising and rewarding performance and retention
- Leads by example and models behaviors that are consistent with the company's RISE values.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What you’ll need
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What you’ll need
- Bachelors degree in Construction or related field
- Formal Program Management methods / standard methodologies
- Cross functional team participation in a high-tech, multifaceted environment
- Experience with Google Suites, MS Office, and Primavera P6 is helpful
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
- Proven track record in delivering high-quality programs
- Passionate about solving complex challenges with aggressive timelines
- Strong change management experience in development, implementation, and execution
- Excellent technical, interpersonal, and analytical skills required. Excellent written and oral communications skills required
- Consistent track record in talent assessment
- Detail oriented with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced and quickly-changing environment
- Previous People Management experience in areas of recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action, and termination.
Why CBRE?
- A culture of respect, integrity, service and excellence crafts our approach to every opportunity!
CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate’s education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Data Center Global Program Manager - Project Management Director position is $190,000 annually and the maximum salary for the Project Manager is $230,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. Successful candidates will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on CBRE’s applicable benefit program.
CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We also provide reasonable accommodations, as needed, throughout the job application process. If you have a disability that inhibits your ability to apply for a position through our online application process, you may contact us via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).
NOTE: Some, but not all, of our positions may have an additional requirement to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing. If you have questions about the requirement(s) for this position, please inform your Recruiter.
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