Data Center West Region Construction Manager

Summary

Posted: Feb 25, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200575185

In Places, we don’t sit back and let things happen, we make things happen, and we do this in service to all Apple employees and customers. Our team is a diverse and nimble group that manages Apple’s retail stores, workplaces and workplace services. We develop and manage Apple’s global real estate portfolio, lead all related capital construction projects, provide outstanding facilities and site services, develop and lead sustainability initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of all Apple facilities, including commute and renewable energy programs, and do everything we can to ensure the health and safety of all Apple personnel, facilities, and customers in our facilities around the world. As the Data Center Construction Project Manager, you will handle all aspects of development for some of the most innovative and energy efficient data centers in the world!

Description

As the Data Center Construction Project Manager, you will handle all aspects of development for some of the most innovative and energy efficient data centers in the world. This position will support our US west region based data center campuses located in OR, NV, & AZ. The role requires close coordination with project partners from various teams including real estate, legal, design, EH&S, energy, construction, network, and operations to bring our projects to fruition. The successful Project Manager will have: Ability to lead multiple projects including equipment upgrades and modifications within live data center production environments in parallel with new construction efforts. Excellent planning, analytical, organization and problem-solving skills. Ability to gracefully adjust to meet changing circumstances such as reassignment of project priority, implementation of design improvements/upgrades, and customer needs. Ability to provide useful input on design and constructability. Proficient and effective verbal and written communication skills. Ability to establish and maintain close working relationships with management, colleagues, team members, internal and external partners. The ability to fully utilize Apple products to do your job as efficiently as possible.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years demonstrated ability as a data center (or similar) construction project manager
• Lead and support the architects, engineers, and other specialty consultants from initial programming to construction completion.
• Construction Management or Engineering Degree
• Strong background in data center/commercial/industrial construction to include mechanical, electrical, process piping, plumbing building systems, structure cabling, tenant improvement, site work and ground up construction.
• Demonstrated success in employee development and mentoring including fostering collaboration, continuous performance feedback and motivating the team to develop and utilize tools for more efficient project management and improved customer service.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to professionally represent Apple’s interest at all meetings with Consultants, General Contractors, and Suppliers.
• Meet with internal strategic engineering groups, operations and business units to determine detailed project requirements.
• Experience in driving both internal and external partners to meet deadlines as the need arises per the project delivery schedule.
• Building and maintaining the project budget including securing internal approvals for capital funding.
• Ability to lead General Contractors to include competitive bidding and negotiation.
• Experience in reviewing and commenting on contracts and terms and conditions as it pertains to costing and deliverables for a project or scope.
• Review all proposals and change order requests from the Consultants, General Contractor, Suppliers, and Subcontractors. Prepare and present comparative cost analysis.
• Management and oversight of commissioning agents with experience in reviewing sequence of operations and test scripts.