Director, Utility Delivery – Coordination

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ohio.

📋 Description

• Oversee utility coordination initiatives across various data center development projects.

• Create and sustain utility delivery plans, milestone schedules, and critical-path tracking.

• Incorporate utility milestones into the overall project development and construction timelines.

• Foster accountability for meeting utility-related obligations and energization deadlines.

• Recognize schedule, permitting, engineering, procurement, and construction risks that may affect energization.

• Formulate and execute mitigation strategies to adhere to project timelines.

• Assess utility scopes, infrastructure plans, and project assumptions for gaps and dependencies.

• Elevate critical issues and propose corrective measures.

• Act as the main liaison between internal project teams, external utility providers, consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Development, Design, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams.

• Organize regular meetings, both internally and externally, along with executive updates and reviews.

• Communicate project status and risk evaluations to executive leadership and other stakeholders.

• Establish standardized processes for utility coordination and reporting frameworks.

• Maintain milestone tracking and risk registers at the portfolio level.

• Promote continuous improvement in utility delivery and project execution methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Energy Systems, Business, or a relevant field.

• 8–15 years of experience in construction project management, with a minimum of 5 years in utility, mission-critical, or data center sectors.

• Proven experience managing utility interconnections, substations, transmission, distribution, or large-scale infrastructure projects.

• Deep understanding of utility planning, construction, and energization processes, as well as project execution.

• Track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with considerable schedule and capital implications.

• Outstanding communication, organizational, and relationship-management abilities.

• Experience in presenting to executive leadership and influencing strategic choices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Understanding and adhering to Cologix’s information security, cybersecurity, privacy, and environmental management policies, procedures, and standards.

• Ensuring compliance with the requirements of both the Information Security Management System (ISMS) and the Environmental Management System (EMS).

• Staying alert and reporting any information security or environmental incidents, vulnerabilities, risks, or non-conformities to the relevant teams.

• Actively engaging in Cologix’s initiatives to sustain and enhance information security and environmental performance.