Program Manager, Data Center Construction
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience with construction planning, sites and facilities.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Construction Management or related technical field.
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- 8 years overseeing data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, and commissioning processes.
- Experience with requirements gathering, resource allocation, task prioritization, and meeting goals.
- Understanding of large-scale facility electrical and mechanical systems.
- Excellent skills in managing vendor relationships, design-build, and construction contracts.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.As a motivated Program Manager, you will have demonstrated experience with data center design, development, construction and commissioning projects. You will provide management of large-scale data centers, computer farms, networking, Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) power distribution/conversion, and cooling methods at multiple scales. You will be tasked with multitasking and coordinating the desires and needs of multiple partner teams, while managing changes and maintaining a focus on keeping the project on schedule and budget.
You'll have experience managing large scale technical projects in a rapidly changing industry, ability to succeed in ambiguity and demonstrated problem-solving leadership with limited oversight. You should be able to conceptualize and describe the delivery of a data center facility from start to commissioning and understand the nuances and risks that you and your team will need to manage.
Responsibilities
- Manage data center construction projects from inception through to completion.
- Support special research and development experiments, renovations, and upgrades of existing facility.
- Be responsible for gathering internal requirements and delivering solutions that satisfy customer needs.
- Maintain end-to-end responsibility from construction to deployment.
- Resolve critical issues within the organization while maintaining rigorous adherence to project timelines and costs.
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