Senior Design Manager

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Senior Design Manager - CMH

Does the thought of joining one of the fastest-growing, privately held data center companies sound exciting to you? Do you enjoy collaborating with team members to drive and operate some of the industry’s leading and most innovative infrastructure solutions?

At Aligned Data Centers, not only do we celebrate success across our platform, we celebrate the very teams that drive and support that success! Our culture is founded in passion, engineered from innovation, and driven by the pursuit of operational excellence. We are a company dedicated to driving positive change in the industry through continuous data center innovation, diversity and inclusion, and corporate sustainability.  

We realize not only is providing a comprehensive benefits package important, but we also provide a generous 401k match with immediate vesting, free membership to Gympass which provides our employees a rich health and wellness benefit and competitive time off plan.  Giving back and having fun is important to our team whether it be serving our communities or employee and customer events. Our Aligned DNA is what makes us unique and successful!    

As part of our exciting growth, we are currently searching for a Senior Design Manager.

This individual will support all aspects of major technical programs that are targeting both colocation and hyperscale builds, including oversight of employees and third-party organizations engaged in the preconstruction, design and construction phases. Working under supervision, this role requires strong communication skills, and demonstrates advanced organizational and time management competencies.  A successful Design Manager with Aligned will possess a hunger to drive efficiencies and innovation, the humility to understand we are all working together during the construction process, and a heart to provide exceptional service to both internal and external customers and vendors. 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive projects from inception through customer or business turnover, with heavy focus and leadership in the preconstruction and design phases of projects. The Design Manager assumes project lead role at design hand-off meeting from the land enablement team and shifts overall project leadership to the Construction Manager (CM) at GC mobilization.

• In conjunction with CM, supports day-to-day program activities and initiatives (engage with architects, consultants, equipment providers, GCs, etc. Coordinate all project activities with building Operations while promoting safety and compliance initiatives and requirements on site.

• Performs as the primary support role to the CM from GC mobilization to turnover to Operations.

• Integrates with the sales and solutions engineering teams during the revenue generation process to meet with customers and ensure technical deliverables are met.

• Interfaces with customers through fit out design, construction and integration; accountable to successful delivery of customer contracts.

• Manages the project with the business in mind and works to ensure the project is meeting directives of CRC/SLT/Board.

• Operates with a constant mindset of continuous improvement, creativity, efficiency and innovation.

• Lead several design management project teams with the possibility of growing into leadership of multiple projects within multiple buildings in a campus or region, directly responsible for the accountability of direct reports for the duties and responsibilities listed above.

Direct Accountabilities Include:

• Coordination/communication with the land enablement group to ensure success with offsite improvements, early permitting, easements and environmental studies.
• Coordination/creation of project risk registers from land enablement phase through project completion/turnover to Aligned Operations

Project Design Management:

• Lead/coordinate onboarding of third-party design team and creation of design schedule to support project needs.
• Oversee management of external third-party design team through project completion/turnover to Aligned Operations.  
• Drive review and management of design deliverables; including stakeholder review and comment cycles.
• Hold design team accountable to design progression and design gating.
• Work with SMEs, Operations, and CMs to ensure design compliance with Alig