Associate Director – Pre-Lease Due Diligence Program Manager, Data Center Construction

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $170k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Turner & Townsend

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏠 Real Estate

Construction • Consulting • Real Estate

Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy business that serves clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. With a commitment to building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society, they focus on delivering better outcomes that positively impact the world. Their specialities include programme strategy and setup, programme management, cost and commercial management, project management, procurement, safety, health and quality, controls and performance, technology and data, and advisory services. With 75 years of experience, Turner & Townsend aims to transform performance for a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.

📋 Description

• Lead technical pre-lease due diligence on candidate data center sites, covering power, land, utilities, entitlements, environmental, geotechnical, and civil constraints • Define investigation priorities and confirm findings answer transaction-team questions • Direct reviews of developer budgets, long-lead equipment pricing, reimbursable cost exhibits, and schedules • Own risk management for each site, including grading findings, assigning owners, quantifying exposure, and driving mitigation to closure • Escalate serious findings with impact and recommended options • Serve as the client’s single point of contact through the deal cycle • Summarize findings for decision makers and provide technical input for term sheet and lease negotiations • Scope, direct, and manage third-party consultants and review deliverables for quality • Manage day-to-day interfaces across internal teams, developers, and client groups • Maintain diligence status, open items, decisions, and outstanding risks across the portfolio • Produce lease-execution handover records and transfer sites to delivery teams • Build repeatable diligence approaches, checklists, and templates as deal volume grows • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience • Data center development, mission critical facilities, or complex technical and hyperscale building experience • Working understanding of data centers, including power, cooling, and long lead equipment • Ability to interrogate developer cost and schedule submissions and identify critical-path risks • Thorough knowledge of program and risk management methods and best practices • Ability to run several deals concurrently and make quick decisions with incomplete information • Self-starter able to adapt quickly and work without a playbook • Ability to read, understand, and communicate contract requirements, construction drawings, and specifications • Ability to interpret construction methods • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Technological proficiency, including MS Suite and Google Workspace • Ability to understand and follow site HSSE policies • A degree is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work considered • Minimal travel (approximately two days per month) • Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer • Reasonable accommodation available for individuals with disabilities