Director, Construction & Offsite Water Infrastructure

Director, Construction & Offsite Water Infrastructure

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world's most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meet or exceed the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:

The Director, Construction and Offsite Water Infrastructure for our Stafford Technology Campus (STC) is a unique role that requires well-developed people and technical skills, expert cross-functional collaboration, and highly refined communication skills to be successful. This role will challenge the successful candidate, who will be responsible for managing consultants and contractors, providing support to our Wet Utilities Team with regards to the STC Campus, managing relationships with various external stakeholders (including, but not limited to, inspectors, AHJ's, and being an expert in supporting regulatory/policy efforts with those same stakeholders). The Director will be an essential part of STACK's STC Construction Team, supporting both strategic and tactical initiatives and solving difficult challenges related to budget, schedule and/or safety of the project. This may include leading negotiations with contractors, consultants, and other vendors, ensuring that schedule and budget commitments are met, driving a team culture that de-risks and optimizes costs through value engineering, early procurement and other methods.

In this role, close coordination will be required with multiple teams at STACK, as well as local AHJ leadership. The management of these relationships is absolutely essential to success and the development and preservation of these relationships is critical. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large, complex, Core & Shell / Heavy Civil / Industrial programs with a focus on water and sewer utility work. Data center industry experience is not required. You will ideally come from a heavy civil or water utility organization with experience in developing, designing and constructing water and sewer facilities. Alternatively, you may be a civil engineer with experience in construction, design and planning within the water sector. The organizational structure is lean and flat, and the continued aggressive growth of the business will create significant opportunities for career growth, particularly as one of the first members in a newly created business vertical within STACK.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and review consultant efforts with respect to various engineering, design, estimating, and construction related to water/sewer to support development and construction of new data center sites.
• Establish, manage and achieve schedule milestones with respect to design, permitting, construction start and completion dates.
• Advise STACK Development on how water/sewer needs will impact the constructability and feasibility of future projects.
• Review and approve project cost estimates for water/sewer needs.
• Manage relationships and discussions with water/sewer utility companies and AHJ's.
• Review any agreements with water/sewer utilities.
• Assist in obtaining easements and other property rights.
• Manage budget related to water/sewer consultant and contractor activities.
• Prepare presentations, track market activity, and provide weekly and biweekly reports.
• Collaborate with other business units as necessary, including pre-construction, design and engineering, development, sales, legal, and tax.
• Manage a team of project management resources, with on-the-jobsite responsibilities.
• Aid in the preparation of business cases and recommendations for leadership approval.

This Might Be Right For You If:

• You're a strong communicator across industries and seniorities, comfortable representing business interests to internal and external senior leadership, utility partners, government officials, and other stakeholders in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
• You are able to take technical concepts and translate them so that non-technical team members can understand how it relates to their job.
• You have a strong attention to detail. You catch minute points across large-scale projects with demanding timelines.
• You bring both creative and analytical approaches to presentations and problem solving. You can clearly and effectively communicate complex commercial and market information and analysis at all organizational levels.
• You don't get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities for internal and external stakeholders while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
• You enjoy problem solving and dealing with issues that vary from project to project, and you are a creative thinker.
• You're a teambuilder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
• You're naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

Required Skills, Education, and Experience:

• Data Center experience and technical knowledge is a definite plus, but not specifically required for this role.
• 15+ yrs overall experience, including at least 5 yrs in complex, large-scale Core & Shell / Industrial construction programs with large scale utility infrastructure (including related fields such as Project Management Consulting; Re-Development; Design/Engineering)
• Four-year degree in a related field (Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture) is strongly preferred, but not required
• Client-facing and team leadership experience required.
• High-level proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel (also Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, OneNote, Project).
• Excellent financial acumen (familiarity with NetSuite preferred but not required).
• Strong leadership skills, high emotional intelligence, and a proven track record in leading, managing and developing teams.
• Experience with multiple large-scale, fast-moving projects across a large geographical area, and a history of developing collaborative and high-morale team cultures.
• Expert problem-solving skills, utilizing creativity, relentless follow-through and your deep understanding of the industry and STACK to early-identify and mitigate issues before they become problems.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade (AIA Contracts, Construction Schedules, Budgets & Schedules of Values, Payment Applications, Lien Releases, Subcontracts, Purchase Orders, Invoices, Vendor Agreements, Construction Insurance types, etc.).
• Rigorous attention to detail, precision and accuracy, particularly in financial matters, budgets, cost projections, etc.
• Ability to prioritize, delegate and stay focused under pressure. Strong organizational skills are a must.
• Positive, can-do attitude and team player.

Other Details:

• Location: Driving distance to the project site (Stafford, VA)
• Domestic travel may be required. Typical trips are 2-3 days, 1-2 trips/year on average

ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Must pass comprehensive background screening

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

WHY STACK?

• We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts - even a cell phone subsidy.
• We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• We're growing - this is a great time to join and make an impact!

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law

Note to external agencies: we are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to stack infrastructure will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.