The Program Manager, Platform Delivery will be a vital member of the leadership team of the North American division of Edged Data Centers. We are looking for someone who demonstrates experience in program management of projects and project controls, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with stakeholders at all organizational levels.

The Program Manager, Platform Delivery needs to be an agile, team-focused individual, with proven professionalism, who is comfortable in a rapidly changing environment. The right person is trustworthy with confidential information, highly organized, self-motivated, has excellent communication skills, can think strategically, and works equally as well independently as with a team. Edged strives to maintain smooth operations and achieves this by empowering our people, by providing autonomy and flexibility in the way we work, by developing a habit of constant, open communication, and by creating a culture of excellence, appreciation, trust, and respect.

About Edged

Edged is a fast-growing global network of carbon neutral, zero-water data centers that leads the industry in energy efficiency. Edged is backed by a deep proprietary technology stack including advanced waterless cooling, renewable microgrid systems, ultra-clean generators, and waste-to-fuel solutions. The platform is designed for rapid deployment and has so far announced nine major projects in construction in the U.S., with many more in development.

The North American division of Edged is a joint venture between an affiliate of Endeavour and one of the largest private multinational corporations with business lines including technology, energy, engineering, as well as other materially related economic sectors. Endeavour is a purpose-driven organization helping innovators to develop and launch solutions for global challenges in the areas of energy, water, and waste to guarantee renewable energy and clean water to everyone, everywhere. Endeavour companies are made up of passionate change-makers who want to leave the world better than the way we found it. Today, Endeavour is deploying solutions that are immediately scalable and profitable, including EV charging, data center cooling, and energy systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Program management and oversight of construction related activities for new builds. This will include the ownership of the program scope, timeline, and budget.
• Driving costs down and schedules shorter while maintaining quality.
• Review of constructability of electrical and mechanical system and building designs associated with the construction of new data centers or the optimization of existing data centers.
• Creation of program scope and equipment requirements, assist with request for proposals, award of General Contractor and capital requests.
• Total program quality including the assisting with commissioning and integrated system testing and oversight of the execution of the program.
• Issue/Manage the Request for Information process during construction and coordinate construction administration with engineers.
• Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management.
• Concurrently managing multiple programs including new data center building and capital improvement program associated with existing data centers.
• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
• Travel to data center sites for the management of the Data Center Construction, including constructability reviews, startup testing, and full commissioning, as required.
• Technical leadership and continuous improvement of schedule, cost, risk, and change management functions.
• Responsible to coordinate and work with Regional Senior Program Manager to ensure program cash flow is trending in line with budget and baseline expectations.
• Coordinate with program managers to prepare and issue potential owner changes and analyze impact on owner changes to base program.
• Coordinate overall process of Monthly billing.
• Hands on experience achieving expert-level proficiency with ground-up development, management, and analysis of complex cost-and-resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6, to include verifiable experience performing schedule risk analysis (e.g., Monte Carlo), time impact analysis, critical path analysis, resource leveling, and related qualitative and quantitative schedule evaluations.
• Work with Edged Program Managers to ensure Autodesk Data is up to date and produce reports as needed on a periodic basis for Management review and to ensure program is meeting overall budget.

Skills & Requirements

Education / Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction or Project Management, Business Administration, Transportation, or a related field.
• Must have a minimum of seven (7) years of related experience on complex projects (>$250 million)
• Five (5) years of experience with electrical, mechanical, controls, security monitoring, fire safety, networking/fiber

Specific Skills / Abilities

• Experience directly related to the design or construction of large data center facilities, either colocation or client owned/operated.
• Previous vendor and contractor/subcontractor negotiation and management skills associated with construction and program execution.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with fast-track design/build projects and or multiple significant upgrade projects.

Great Place to Work

Enjoy…

A fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation.

A flexible, autonomous work environment.

A culture of respect, learning, and excellence.

Experienced, highly talented experts as team peers.

Growth and travel opportunities.

A team of change-makers having a significant impact on people and the planet.

​Position: Program Manager, Platform Delivery

Full-Time or Part-Time: Full-Time

Reports to: Regional Senior Program Manager – West Coast

Location: Remote / Rocky Mountains / Kansas City, Columbus

Contact: edcrecruiting@edged.us