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Senior Director, Pre-Construction & Civil Structural Architectural Delivery EMEA
Job Summary
The Senior Director will focus on the front-end of Equinix’s EMEA construction projects:
Leading and controlling the strategic direction across the early stages of our entire project portfolio for both enterprise and hyperscale customers
Working in close collaboration with the EMEA Hub Leads to enable our projects to focus on speed-to-market for our capacity
Liaising and coordinating with Design & Engineering, Permitting, Procurement, Commercial and Construction teams to optimise the interfaces between these functions with the aim to reduce the durations and hand-offs
Creating and maintaining best-in-class policies and procedures for projects from pre-award and setup through to watertight shell and core build
Establishing, maintaining and optimising excellent supply chain relationships with General Contractors (GCs) and Major Capital Equipment (MCE) providers through all relevant phases
Responsibilities
Reporting to the VP Construction EMEA, the Senior Director will bring the urgency to front-end activities in project delivery espousing the principle that “Every Day Matters” to ensure that float is built and maintained for the fitout and commissioning phases, including:
Working with other Leaders in the Equinix Global Design and Construction (GDC) team to ensure that the priorities are aligned, executed and monitored
Establishing checklist for pre-award and project setup
Ensuring there is a consistent and right- sized GC organisation structure
Tracking GC selection and procurement of key subcontractors and materials and an effective RIBA Stage 5 (GC design) process
Working closely with the Equinix Design team to accelerate permitting process and actively seeking opportunities to commence enabling works on the site earlier than we are currently achieving (speed-to-market focus)
Ensuring standard of excellence for scheduling & productivity with focus on C&S & site works, and harmonising our processes to enable a predictable execution of our Shell & Core build, facilitating early access to our MEP fitout and ultimately providing sufficient time for our CX teams to achieve or improve our committed dates to the business and our customers
Maintain strong working relationships with internal and external team members including staff, subcontractors, vendors, architects, and other industry professionals,
Ensuring ensure efficient and effective departmental performance including training, professional development, and career advancement opportunities
Interviewing, hiring and assuring effective training and development of the team
Reporting the statuses, successes, challenges and plans of action to the senior management team and company on a timely basis
Developing, managing and being accountable for achievement of key departmental metrics
Providing subject-matter expertise, leadership and direction in construction policies, vendor relationships, accountability, training and employee development, subcontractor and supplier relationships, project and group profitability, and all other areas covered within and by this group all in order to achieve the Company’s overall strategic objectives
Qualifications
Substantial, progressive experience in successfully managing high-tech construction projects or programs during the front-end of the life cycle
Detailed working knowledge of building construction and project management processes and procedures at a global scale
Strong working knowledge and experience of the design of data centres , and/or other high-tech industries
Track record in concurrently overseeing multiple, large-scale high-tech (ideally data centre) construction projects and with capital expenditure oversight of $100M+
Ability to analyse and evaluate construction documents including drawings, specifications and contracts
Competency in Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, construction cost estimating, proposal generation and development, document management and contract administration
Exceptional leadership, communication, written and verbal presentation, and team-building skills proven in multiple international regions
Substantial experience as a transformational, inclusive leader including strong competencies in talent identification and development, coaching, and mentoring construction professionals and varying levels of experience proven in multiple regions
Exceptional communication, negotiation and analytical skills required proven in multiple geographies
Ability to multi-task and work within team-based projects in an extremely fast paced and demanding environment and internationally
Higly analuytical with strong intellect, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, construction management or a related field
Highly organized and detail oriented
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