Lease Construction Manager

• Driving safe, high quality, predictable, and efficient delivery across all assigned projects
• Setting clear and ambitious goals, ensuring alignment with EPC regional OKRs, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks
• Coordinating with Microsoft’s Subject Matter Experts (SME) and the Lease Providers to support the efforts of achieving Ready For Service for each lease data centre project
• Aligning team objectives, business processes, vendor management strategies, and cross-group collaboration efforts
• Managing a safe worksite
• Identifying and managing stakeholder dependencies and construction deliverables and hand-offs with Microsoft teams
• Managing lease providers and support associated teams & partners in the delivering RFS “Ready for Service”
• Managing & supporting vendor contracts
• Ensuring regional goals of delivering capacity are aligned to business OKRs
• Identifying and tracking KPI to help with improvement in delivery of RFS
• Maintaining the requirements stated in the lease contract using MSFT best practices
• Driving deployment of solutions that can be socialized globally across MSFT DCD Organization
• Facilitating decision-making to drive solutions, schedules, and manage change as required
• Applying influence, strategies and negotiation skills to identify options and recommend solutions
• Providing project single point of contact for project development and delivery
• Coordinating meetings and activities of Lease Providers and internal MSFT SME
• Attending scheduled owner/architect/contractor (OAC) and other project meetings, and report as necessary
• Reporting Project Progress on scope, schedule, and budget weekly or as required
• Providing weekly project status reporting to DCD standards
• Being responsible for managing the construction process of achieving RFS
• Tracking lessons learned and identifying improvements to share across groups
• Routing RFS approval to all stakeholders and regional approvers
• Ensuring lease provider’s compliance to lease agreement contract
• Driving the business OKR for region capacity delivery goals
• Assessing resourcing and forecasting business needs to meet demands

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management or an equivalent engineering science OR significant related construction management experience in lieu of a degree
• Solid recent experience in construction management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plants
• Strong Verbal and Written Communication Skills
• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously
• Ability to independently manage deadlines and support staff
• Ability to influence cross-discipline teams
• Construction Health & Safety Knowledge
• Ability to read and understand commercial lease agreements preferred
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role

• Strong understanding of maintenance and corrective break-fix planning on mission-critical infrastructures
• Understand electrical engineering principles including breaker coordination studies, switch-gear sequence of operations, local electrical codes

Relocation support is provided