Preconstruction Manager, MEP

Key Accountabilities

• Lead coordination between engineering teams, consultants, contractors, owners, and clients to define project scope, document deviations, and align technical requirements from the land due diligence phase through initial/finalized design.

• Drive alignment of evolving owner and client inputs with design standards, budget targets, cash flow considerations, and early schedule milestones.

• Own CDE completion along with BOD generation/deviation mgmt.

• Strong participation in Client contract/SLA reviews against the CDE and BOD

• Generate and own initial schedule for the project with other leadership teammates input and track project deliverables, timelines, and key milestones to ensure alignment across teams

• Oversee review of precon/design documents, initial engineering related analyses, bid packages, and preliminary schedules to ensure technical compliance, constructability, and commercial viability.

• Generate and maintain precon budget until handover to development project mgmt. 

• Integrate preconstruction management into early design, including conceptual budgeting, cost benchmarking, value engineering, scope validation, and early risk identification.

• Partner with procurement and commercial teams to review OFCI strategies, long-lead equipment tracking and planning, and preliminary cost impacts.

• Facilitate structured preconstruction and design alignment meetings to ensure clear decision-making, documented outcomes, and forward momentum.

• Advise development and leadership teams on technical constraints, site limitations, cost drivers, and schedule risks during land evaluation and early project planning.

• Support QA/QC process with site observation visits and confirming validation of engineering intent during design development to ensure deliverables are coordinated, complete, and ready for execution.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams while maintaining accountability for scope control, documentation, budget, and milestone adherence.

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience in construction management, design, design management, or relevant field

• 5+ years’ experience with data center and/or mission-critical projects’ design/construction

• Experience with electrical engineering systems and their integration into mission-critical environments.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, project management, engineering, or similar

Knowledge & Skills

• Proven ability to build and lead complex technical design discussions across engineering teams, consultants, contractors, owners, and clients while maintaining effective working relationships with internal/external stakeholders. 

• Strong stakeholder alignment skills, bridging communication gaps, ability to participate in technical discussions and driving consensus across technical and non-technical groups.

• Experience managing design deliverables to meet evolving owner and client requirements while maintaining control of scope, budget, and schedule.

• Working knowledge of preconstruction management, including design-phase budgeting, constructability reviews, value engineering, scope validation, and early risk identification.

• Ability to integrate cost, schedule, and constructability considerations into engineering coordination to ensure designs are executable and commercially viable.

• Solid understanding of data center development workflows, consultant management, and cross-disciplinary engineering coordination.

• Strong organizational, written and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities across cross-functional teams

• Proactive in identifying risks, problem solving, resolving conflicts, and maintaining momentum across multiple concurrent workstreams with the ability to adapt quickly and learn new tools, processes and systems.

• Results-driven, highly organized, and accountable for delivering coordinated, constructible design packages aligned with preconstruction and project delivery milestones.

Travel

Ability to travel up to 25%