VP, Design Engineering & Construction Delivery

Position Title: VP, Design Engineering & Construction 

Location: Boston, MA / Dallas, TX / Ashburn, VA 

Your role

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, ensuring Digital Realty’s core product, Data Centre Services, is optimized to our target customers’ requirements in a cost-effective way is key to delivering competitive advantage and ensuring sufficient return on investment.  The VP of Design Engineering & Construction will lead and set the strategic vision for all elements of design and construction of data centers in the North American region with strong emphasis on consistent delivery optimized for strong returns. You will lead and empower your team to optimize time to deliver, ensuring the design and construction processes of Digital Realty’s North America data centers are industry-leading in speed of delivery, cost-efficiency, repeatability, predictability, and quality. You’ll represent the North America Leadership Team in forming and executing the region’s growth strategy while actively participating in shaping and driving Global strategy

What you’ll do

• Lead, develop, and motivate the North America Design and Construction (D&C) team to focus on strategic development of all aspects of the data center design and construction, with particular focus on optimizing speed of delivery, cost efficiency, repeatability, predictability, and quality.
• Align with global plan to execute the strategy and delivery of the full data center D&C lifecycle: from the design, production, scheduling, and construction, to delivery of data center campuses.
• Partner with the Global Team to support R&D capabilities that position Digital Realty ahead of our competitors and create the next generation of data center signs to improve delivery schedule intervals at the right costs for each product.
• Manage and oversee the overall North America regional design and construction projects while incorporating Global processes and best practices.
• Lead the delivery and commissioning of new data centers in the region.
• Initiate and maintain a historical construction cost database to support costing for business cases and track alignment with delivery speed and underlying costs.
• Provide strong cross-function support via collaboration with the Portfolio Management and Acquisition teams to support due diligence for future expansion plans.
• Execute new design innovations in alignment with the Global Team that will optimize cost engineering, energy efficiency, and quality of data centers.
• Manage to scope of design; exhibit strong accountability and ownership in consistently delivering on time and within budget plans.
• Support the Managing Director North America in the development, refinement, and execution of go-to-market strategies that will contribute to the regional growth trajectory.
• Maintain a coherent governance process and program methodology.
• Provide leadership and oversight of the capital budget development for all construction-related work.

What you’ll need

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Development, or related field 
• 10 years of proven work experience in design and/or construction or related fields with strong people management experience. 
• Proven track record of managing design to deliver cost savings/avoidance and driving revenue growth. 
• Solid track record of strategic accomplishments in companies experiencing rapid growth and expansion amidst challenges. 
• Experience in building teams to scale rapidly in a dynamic technology and customer-focused environment.
• Extremely collaborative leader with ability to be flexible and creative. 
• Strong executive presence and sense of urgency.
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills; systematic thinker.
• Exceptional interpersonal, team building, and facilitation skills. Ability to effectively communicate and interact across diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with teams in a fast-moving and dynamic business environment
• Motivated to work at a company that focuses on customers, excellence, talent, teamwork, and success.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team 

Operations

Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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