Senior Project Manager – Data Centers Development

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

📋 Description

• Act as a representative for developer clients throughout the front-end lifecycle of significant data center initiatives.

• Oversee projects starting from site identification and acquisition, continuing through development, entitlement, utility coordination, due diligence, construction, commissioning, and project closeout.

• Direct project teams and maintain essential client relationships across a variety of data center developments.

• Manage project governance, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and presentations for executive leadership.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary consultant teams and ensure alignment among project stakeholders.

• Assist in business development and pinpoint opportunities for enhanced service provision.

• Supervise development timelines, budgets, risks, and critical milestones.

• Conduct feasibility studies, site evaluations, due diligence, and technical assessments.

• Oversee site selection, land acquisition, utility assessments, infrastructure evaluations, environmental due diligence, zoning, entitlements, permitting, and infrastructure planning.

• Aid in design development, value engineering, procurement, construction criteria, drawing evaluations, risk mitigation, scheduling, and criticality assessments.

• Collaborate with local authorities, general contractors, architects/engineers, commissioning agents, and technical reviewers.

• Manage construction processes through site visits, meetings, progress reporting, schedule assessments, documentation, inspections, testing, punch-list resolution, commissioning, and transition to operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 8 years of project management experience with a strong emphasis on data center development projects.

• A degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Real Estate Development, Architecture, Project Management, or a related field.

• Proven experience in leading projects from land acquisition to handover to construction or delivery teams.

• Strong capabilities in financial, commercial, and risk management.

• Proficient to expert knowledge of Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Solid understanding of data center development, entitlement, and pre-construction processes.

• Ability to lead, coordinate, and organize multiple stakeholders, including general contractors.

• Skilled in delivering project/program status reports.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

• Capacity to manage multiple projects in a dynamic consulting environment.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% as required by clients.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for remote work.

• Flexible working environment.

• Support for work-life balance.

• An inclusive and diverse workplace.

• Equal opportunity employment.