Lease Construction Manager

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Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the business unit responsible for operating Microsoft’s cloud and the Datacenter Construction Delivery (DCD) team is responsible for constructing datacenter capacity. We have a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-million, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects underway. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.

The role of the **Lease Construction Manager (LCM)** requires strong interpersonal, communication, organizational skills, ability to self-direct, strong background in data center design, engineering, controls, operational requirements, managing teams and vendors, and an emphasis on project/construction management.

The Lease Construction Manager is ultimately responsible for the complete project delivery of Ready for Service (RFS) for each lease site location. The LCM is responsible for ensuring that each project meets the Data Center Development (DCD) guidelines and standards, which may be adjusted from time-to-time based on best practices and Lesson Learned drawn from previous projects as well as industry changing best practice. In addition, LCM will be responsible for ensuring that the lease provider is complying with the MSFT requirements in the lease contract when delivering a project.

The LCM will coordinate with Microsoft’s Subject Matter Experts (SME) and stakeholders to support the efforts of achieving RFS for each lease data center sites. The LCM will manage the deliveries of projects from lease execution through RFS. In managing the delivery of projects, this position aligns team objectives, business processes, vendor management strategies, and cross-group collaboration efforts with the Data Center Development Project Strategy.

The LCM will be a relentless advocate for managing a safe worksite. Safety is one of the four pillars of CO+I’s mission in delivering cloud capacity; joined by Quality, Schedule adherence, and Cost Management. In addition, this position will be responsible in reviewing potential lease sites providing preconstruction expertise and assisting site selection teams in providing feedback on lease provider’s qualifications. LCM will work closely to support the Data Center Integration Managers (DCI-ITIM) across regions and their respective local sites.

**Responsibilities**:
The Key Responsibilities of the LCM includes, but not limited to:

- The LCM will be a relentless advocate for managing a safe worksite.
- The LCM will be responsible for identifying and managing stakeholder dependencies and construction deliverables and handoffs with the following Microsoft teams: E2E (End-to-End), Security (DCPS), Data Center Engineering (DCE), Data Center Operations (DC Ops), Site Selection and Acquisition (SSA), Environmental Health & Safety (EHS).
- The LCM will manage lease providers and support associated teams & partners in the delivering **RFS “Ready for Service”**:

- This position will require travel up to 50% of the time to data center sites
- Manage & support vendor contracts
- The LCM will be responsible for ensuring regional goals of delivering capacity are aligned to business OKRs
- Identify and track KPI to help with improvement in delivery of RFS. Provide feedback and insight to leadership on areas of improvement

Business Processes:

- To maintain the requirements stated in the lease contract using MSFT best practices
- Manage Lease Providers and associated internal partners to deliver RFS
- Drive deployment of solutions that can be socialized globally across MSFT DCD Organization
- Facilitate decision-making to drive solutions, schedules, and manage change as required

Communication:

- Provide project single point of contact for project development and delivery
- Coordinate meetings and activities of Lease Providers and internal MSFT SME.
- Attend regular scheduled project meetings and report as necessary
- Report Project Progress on scope, schedule, and budget weekly or as required
- Provide weekly project status reporting to DCD standards

Accountability
- Responsible for managing the construction process of achieving RFS.
- Track lessons learned and identify improvements to share across groups
- Route RFS approval to all stakeholders and regional approvers
- Ensure lease provider’s compliance to lease agreement contract
- Drive the business OKR for region capacity delivery goals
- Assess resourcing and forecasting business needs to meet demands

Embody our culture and values

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- 5+ years in construction Project Management Lead of Data Centers or Mission Critica