DCE Design & Construction Program Manager

Flexential•Dallas, GA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Serve as the central point of control linking core construction operations with critical internal business units, infrastructure verticals, and corporate real estate. Core Focus: Drive technical real estate due diligence, eliminate scope gaps across specialized internal teams (IT, Network, Security, Interiors, Sales Engineering), govern long-lead procurement vendor status cadences, and deliver corporate-wide portfolio schedule/budget data aggregation. Scope: Portfolio-wide oversight spanning multi-site deployments, regional campuses, new data center builds, custom customer expansions, and large operational retrofits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, construction management, engineering, or related field.
4+ years of project administration or program management experience in construction, data centers, or a highly regulated industry.
Proficiency using enterprise construction PMIS systems (e.g., Procore), data tracking tools (e.g., MS Project), and blueprint markup applications (e.g., Bluebeam).
Experience building process flows, utilizing digital project management tools, and generating KPI dashboards.
Exceptional organizational skills with a strong capacity for matrix management and cross-departmental influence.
Proactive problem-solving abilities to address supply chain delays and process bottlenecks.
Legally authorized to work in the United States and must reside in a state where the company maintains employment eligibility at the time of hire and throughout their employment.

Responsibilities

Serve as primary contact for Enterprise IT, Network Engineering, Physical Security, and Global Workplace to embed requirements into structural/MEP drawings before groundbreaking.
Partner with internal Design Engineers to track, integrate, and enforce design direction across all contractor packages and custom customer deployments.
Facilitate structured communication between site Construction Managers (CMs) and Design Engineering when field conditions require design adjustments.
Coordinate with Sales Engineers to evaluate layout and capacity feasibility of large or non-standard custom customer designs.
Lead technical due diligence during site selection, coordinating structural, utility, and environmental audits with third-party consultants.
Synthesize technical risk profiles, utility availability, and path-to-power timelines into executive reports for leadership go/no-go decisions.
Track end-to-end permitting workflows handled by external design firms and General Contractors (GCs) to ensure zero schedule disruption.
Coordinate internal document inputs, corporate signatures, and financial authorizations required to complete external permit packages.
Maintain the master tracking matrix for all Owner-Furnished Equipment (OFE) and long-lead infrastructure assets.
Lead regular production status meetings with equipment manufacturers, supply chain partners, and internal procurement teams.
Enforce look-ahead production updates from vendors, tracking factory progress, component sourcing pipelines, and sub-assembly timelines.
Monitor factory acceptance testing (FAT), shipping logistics, and site delivery windows against the master schedule to mitigate critical-path risks.
Aggregate site-level financial ledgers and schedules managed by project teams into a unified, corporate-wide portfolio dashboard.
Track cumulative expenditures, total contingency usage, cash-flow burn rates, and project milestones to provide a high-level view directly to the VP of Design & Construction.
Analyze master schedule dependencies and floating logic across the portfolio to identify resource constraints or macroeconomic schedule slippages.
Develop KPI reports monitoring schedule adherence, budget compliance, and document approval turnaround times.
Interface with the non-technical Director of Knowledge Management to package, index, and archive historical construction assets (As-Builts, BIM models, commissioning records).
Enforce standardized naming conventions and file metadata guidelines across the DCE department to protect corporate storage hierarchy.
Partner with the Platform Administrator to optimize cross-functional workflows, approval routings, and dashboards in enterprise tracking software.
Coordinate preparation, legal review, and execution of contracts, change orders, RFIs, and submittals.