Vice President, Construction - CoreSite

As a member of the company's Campus Development team, the Vice President of Construction is responsible for managing all facets of the complete construction life cycle for CoreSite’s data center footprint. This includes new development and in-fill projects in existing and new domestic markets.

Duties:

• Lead a team of in-house and contracted professionals responsible to permit, budget, contract, construct, and commission $500M+ in annual data center development projects.
• Grow the organization’s capabilities ensuring a consistent approach across projects and markets to support an increasing volume of development with accountability for cost, speed to market, and schedule performance.
• Evaluate, select, and develop appropriate vendor partnerships with industry leading firms supporting data center construction. Drive efficiency and accountability for schedule and budget success with the selected partners.
• Lead contract negotiations, partnering with Legal and Procurement teams, for GCs and other vendor agreements. • Own quality, safety, budget, and schedule for all projects.
• Work collaboratively and effectively with General Management and Sales teams to prepare, deliver, and execute upon customer opportunities, including but not limited to proposals to prospective customers, modification of design, and cost estimations.
• Represent CoreSite’s development capabilities for strategic customers and projects. Build excellent relationships with high trust from customers prior to and during construction.
• Mentor and develop personnel to ensure quality performance.
• Create, maintain, and augment documented construction processes with periodic reviews and recommendations from cross company constituents, where applicable.
• Coordinate smooth transitions from development to Data Center Operations to meet customer delivery dates and on-going operations (i.e. construction and equipment documentation, specifications, and warranties).
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Data Center Operations, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver development projects against corporate business plan.
• Provide reporting to CEO and senior leadership team as appropriate
• Promote and demonstrate the behaviors consistent with CoreSite’s Guiding Principles.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proactive management of multiple fast-paced projects with strict adherence to budgets and timelines.
• Strong working knowledge of management procedures, training, and program implementation.
• Ability to solve practical problems quickly, handle multiple tasks, and organize resources to ensure work is completed on time and on budget.
• Excellent written & oral communication skills to effectively interface with all levels of management and staff across the organization as well as to clients.
• Able to review vendor costs, schedules, change orders, and value engineering proposals for validity. • Strong proficiency in cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, and contracting.
• Detail oriented with excellent organization and project management skills.
• A strong working knowledge of OSHA standards, fire, safety procedures, and MSDS regulations.
• Demonstrated leadership and team development abilities.
• Must be reliable, trustworthy, and have a high degree of integrity.

Education/Experience:

• B.S. in Engineering, Construction Management, or a closely related field required.
• 15+ years’ experience in construction with institutional developers and/or contractors (publicly traded industrial and data center REITs, national and global contractors, and developers).
• Experience with field observations, review of construction documents, corrective recommendations, cost recommendations, construction monitoring including review of payment applications, evaluation of existing properties, formal report preparation and on-going client communications, managing and coordinating project workflow, and growth of professional staff preferred.
• Strong constructability experience with all commercial property types, including industrial, data centers, and telecommunications.
• 5+ years of recent experience in ground-up data centers and mission critical facilities.
• 5+ years managing project management teams of 5 or more professionals.
• Demonstrated experience managing $200+ million in annual construction.
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing teams that reduce build cost and accelerate delivery schedule.
• Demonstrated success building team relationships and partnerships across internal and external organizations.
• Ability to thrive in a hybrid work environment and adjust schedule for the needs of a 24/7/365 organization.

Travel:

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% in the U.S.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Compensation:

Compensation for this role includes a base salary between $$200,000 and 250,000 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual bonus and equity, based upon individual and company performance.

Benefits

Not only does CoreSite have a fun, team-focused work environment, but we also offer great benefits to all employees regularly scheduled to work more than 20 hours a week!

• First-day medical insurance through Cigna with generous premium cost coverage
• Dental insurance through Delta Dental
• Vision insurance through VSP
• Telemedicine through MDLive for Cigna
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending account (FSA) plans
• Health saving account (HSA) plans for employees participating in the High Deductible Health Plan
• Life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance fully paid by the company
• Voluntary coverage benefits for supplemental life, critical illness, accident, and hospital insurance
• First-day eligibility for 401(k) savings plan through Fidelity, which includes an attractive matching company contribution
• Discretionary annual bonus and equity incentive plan
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with a 15 percent discount
• 16 days of paid time off (PTO)
• 11 paid company holidays and additional floating holidays
• School visitation and elder care paid time off
• Parental leave, adoption and surrogacy benefits, and family planning/fertility support
• Wellness reimbursement program & wellness incentive program
• Free parking or a company contribution toward a public transit pass
• Education reimbursement and student loan debt assistance program
• Employee assistance program, childcare resources, personal finance management support, and student loan debt assistance program
• Pet insurance
• Charitable matching program

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