Digital Realty Career Opportunities
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Project planning, cost management, cost estimating, time management, quality management, contract administration, and safety management
How many years of hands-on experience do you possess working with mechanical and electrical infrastructure within a data center?
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Managing construction projects from start to finish within data centers or other mission critical environments.
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Project accounting functions including managing the budget, tracking of team expenses and minimizing exposure and risk for construction projects.
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Manage a Wide Variety of Construction Projects at Data Center Facilities Across the U.S. 

This unique role is your opportunity to take ownership of a wide range of construction projects at data center locations across the U.S. Working out of our Clifton, New Jersey site, you will join a strong Construction Management team supporting the infrastructure of one of the largest full-solution data center providers in the world. You will take a hands-on approach and full ownership of your work, which will include full-cycle project management from planning to cost management and estimating to contract negotiations, contractor oversight, execution and budget reconciliation. Quick question for you - click here  You'll also focus on the fine details by developing metrics, construction status reports, reports on spend and spend rate and more.

We're hiring with an eye to the future, and your success in this role -- bound to add clout to your résumé -- could set you up to advance as we continue to grow. From here you could step up to a senior role or pursue another opportunity within the company, such as taking on large "scale" projects.  

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. supports the data center and colocation strategies of more than 600 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, gaming, life sciences and consumer products. With the acquisition of Telx in October 2015, Digital Realty is uniquely positioned to provide a complete range of data center solutions on a global scale that best fit our customers' needs. At the same time, we can now connect them to the cloud and their critical partners on an open platform that includes 135 properties and 198 buildings in 33 markets around the globe.

The Requirements

To meet the basic qualification for this role you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. To be a strong fit for the role of Data Center Construction Manager, you will have:
  • A bachelor’s degree in either Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience. A post graduate degree in Construction Management or similar is an added advantage
  • 5 to 7+ years of experience in managing data center/colocation, telecom, high tech or similar technical construction projects
  • Outstanding project management skills and success managing projects ranging from $100K to $1.5MM
  • Fluency in MS Excel, Word, Project, PowerPoint, Visio & Outlook; experience with SAP or similar a plus
  • Comprehensive understanding of Architecture and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) drawings and infrastructure systems  Quick question for you - click here
  • Data / statistical analysis skills are a strong advantage
  • Thorough knowledge of legal issues and safety standards 
  • Ability to plan and organize a team effort
  • The ability to maintain a clean, neat and organized filing system
  • Estimating experience a plus
  • OSHA-10 safety certification a plus
  • Experience in ACAD operating system a plus
In addition, you will need the following core competencies and characteristics:
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Willingness to take a hands-on approach to your work; you will not have an admin/assistant but will manage all responsibilities yourself
  • Capability of motivating and leading vendors, contractors, and teams working within a construction project
  • Effective time management and logical decision-making abilities
  • Ability to work independently
  • Capacity to work in a fast-paced and detailed environment
  • Strong focus on quality
In addition to these requirements, you must be willing and able to travel between 10% and 25% primarily domestically, depending upon project needs. You will work out of our Clifton, NJ office. 

The Role

Overview
Reporting to the Director, Construction Management, you will be responsible for the overall project planning and scheduling, resource allocation, project accounting, and control for a range of Telx construction and facility projects. Your responsibilities will span a broad spectrum, covering all the areas of project management, including project planning, cost management, cost estimating, time management, quality management, contract administration, and safety management. You will also provide technical direction and ensure compliance with quality industry standards.  Quick question for you - click here

Day-In-the-Life
You will join a team of two Construction Managers leading projects at Data Center facilities across the country. Typically, you will manage 4 to 6 projects of varying levels of complexity and in various phases at any one time. While you may be responsible for a large capital project on occasion, or handle smaller projects from $10-$100K, 90% of your work will have a cost of between $100K and $1.5MM and last from two to six months.  

We can promise you won’t get bored, as projects can be very different. You may be supporting our core business, replacing cooling towers or electrical equipment, upgrading an environment by refinishing a floor, or multiple environments by quoting equipment, like two dozen air conditioning units. To support the scope of the projects, you will leverage your strong MEP knowledge. We’re not expecting you to be a PE, but you will need solid knowledge to succeed. You will also utilize your strong analytical skills in the development and analysis of reports and other data, including status and spend reports.  

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:
  • Charting out project objectives and plans, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants
  • Bringing about optimum utilization of resources - labor, materials and equipment - and ensuring procurement at most cost-effective terms
  • Ensuring that all equipment and products meet company energy guidelines
  • Overseeing the construction project from start to finish.
  • Performing a key role in project planning, budgeting, and identification of resources needed
  • Performing project accounting functions including managing the budget, tracking team expenses, and minimizing exposure and risk in the project  Quick question for you - click here
  • Ensuring that construction activities move according to pre-determined project plan
  • Implementing various operations through proper coordination
  • Communicating effectively with the contractors responsible for completing various phases of the project
  • Coordinating the efforts of all parties involved in the project, including architects, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors and laborers
  • Monitoring the progress of construction activities on a regular basis and holding regular status meetings with all the sub-teams
  • Maintaining strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality and safety standards
  • Ensuring project documentation submittals are complete and per specification standards
  • Identifying the elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims
  • Providing value engineering ideas during the design process
  • Effectively reporting project status, milestones, performance metrics to management and executive team leaders
  • Ensuring proper close out documentation is completed and as-built drawings are developed accurately
  • Developing effective communications and mechanisms for resolving conflicts among the various participants
Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Video: While each data center campus is unique, this tour of 850 E. Collins gives you a glimpse of the features and amenities that make Digital Realty the data center provider of choice around the world. This site is part of our 69-acre Digital Dallas Data campus in the epicenter of North Dallas' high technology corridor.

Why Digital Realty

Varied and visible role
Managing construction projects at more than 20 sites across the U.S., you are bound to encounter a wide array of different types of projects. You will interact with a variety of stakeholders, showcase our ability to deliver on commitments, and enjoy strong visibility. Additionally, you will have a good deal of autonomy in achieving your goals.

Professional development
We know you'll bring strong experience and knowledge to this role, but given the diversity and volume of projects, you're bound to learn new things. Our success depends upon staying on the leading edge, so you will learn new technologies and best practices along with the rest of us. The talents that make you successful in this role -- planning, technical savvy, budgeting, etc. -- are the kinds of things we look for when advancement opportunities open up.

Exciting time to join
With the acquisition of Telx, Digital Realty adds robust colocation, strategic network dense connectivity, a vast and open partner ecosystem and unmatched freedom of choice to one of the world's largest data center footprints. As we integrate processes and teams from the two companies, there will be opportunities for strong performers to make their mark.

The "best of both worlds"
You'll find that working for our company may be a little bit different. We are small enough, with only 1300 employees across our global portfolio, that your hard work will be visible throughout the organization, yet our extensive offering of services and solutions and proven track record of growth; stability and industry-leading innovation give you the resources and tools you need to take your career to the next level.

Unique culture
We are a collaborative, people-focused company dedicated to quality and continuous improvement. When you become a member of our team, you receive our commitment to your continued development and support.

Strong foundation
Our financial strength and stability provide our customers with the assurance that Digital Realty and Telx will be their partner for current data center needs and those in the future, and our investment credit ratings provide us access to paths for more capital. We view each of our customers as a long-term partner.

Green standard for sustainability
We are committed to improving the performance and energy efficiency of our data centers through the creation, adoption and promotion of industry-leading best data center practices and experience. We are pioneers in thinking about green data centers and are also a Contributing Member of The Green Grid.

Excellent compensation
In addition to a competitive wage and discretionary bonus potential, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes all you would expect plus some pleasant surprises, like multiple flexible spending plans, a generous company match on the 401(k) plan, and more.

Pictured: our regional office in downtown Los Angeles is collocated with a state-of-the-art 489,722 square-foot mission critical datacenter and telecommunications facility.

Keys to Success

This role calls for a unique combination of knowledge and experience. Naturally, you'll need construction experience to be successful, but you must also have solid technical chops to work on projects in a colocation environment, and MEP knowledge to succeed across the board. You will be an organizational wizard in order to balance multiple projects simultaneously, always hitting your deadlines, and need high-energy to take a hands-on approach to managing multiple projects and competing priorities.

Just as important as your technical skills will be your interpersonal and communication abilities. You will coordinate among a number of internal and external stakeholders, and you'll need to promote collaboration while also holding others accountable. As you probably already know, there will be tough conversations at times -- you may need to be assertive in holding vendors to deadlines or diplomatic in managing expectations. 

Our most successful Construction Managers demonstrate a “do what it takes” approach to getting things done. For example, you will make your own travel arrangements and put in extra hours as needed to deliver on time. You might even go to a job site on the weekend. Weekend work is occasional, but it gives you a flavor of what “do what it takes" means. You will own your jobs and hold yourself to the highest standards. 

Pictured: Each of our data campuses offers state-of-the-art power, cooling, connectivity, and security systems. And each is part of the largest ecosystem of world-class US, European, and APAC carriers, hosting physical connection points for the world's telecommunications networks and Internet backbones.

About Digital Realty

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Globally delivering the Right Workload, in the Right Place, at the Right Value℠.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. supports the data center and colocation strategies of more than 600 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, gaming, life sciences and consumer products.

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

About Telx

Telx, Digital Realty's Colocation and Interconnection line of business, fuels infrastructure, interconnection and business progress. With industry-leading 100% uptime and 100% on-time service level agreements, Telx helps companies build more agile businesses faster with reduced infrastructure complexity and broader reach to new markets. At Telx, we're not just about making connections. We're all about making a difference.

Telx colocation and connectivity products serve a broad range of industries from network dense Internet/Cloud Gateway data centers located across 13 US markets: Atlanta, Charlotte (NC), Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, New York, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Seattle. With more than 50,000 network connections, Telx enables the hybrid cloud strategies of our customers, and the interconnection of more than 10 million square feet of data center space around the world.

Digital Realty offers a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled

Please do not forward unsolicited resumes to any employee of Digital Realty and its subsidiaries. Digital Realty is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited referrals.

Manage a Wide Variety of Construction Projects at Data Center Facilities Across the U.S. 

This unique role is your opportunity to take ownership of a wide range of construction projects at data center locations across the U.S. Working out of our Clifton, New Jersey site, you will join a strong Construction Management team supporting the infrastructure of one of the largest full-solution data center providers in the world. You will take a hands-on approach and full ownership of your work, which will include full-cycle project management from planning to cost management and estimating to contract negotiations, contractor oversight, execution and budget reconciliation. Quick question for you - click here  You'll also focus on the fine details by developing metrics, construction status reports, reports on spend and spend rate and more.

We're hiring with an eye to the future, and your success in this role -- bound to add clout to your résumé -- could set you up to advance as we continue to grow. From here you could step up to a senior role or pursue another opportunity within the company, such as taking on large "scale" projects.  

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. supports the data center and colocation strategies of more than 600 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, gaming, life sciences and consumer products. With the acquisition of Telx in October 2015, Digital Realty is uniquely positioned to provide a complete range of data center solutions on a global scale that best fit our customers' needs. At the same time, we can now connect them to the cloud and their critical partners on an open platform that includes 135 properties and 198 buildings in 33 markets around the globe.

The Requirements

To meet the basic qualification for this role you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. To be a strong fit for the role of Data Center Construction Manager, you will have:
  • A bachelor’s degree in either Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience. A post graduate degree in Construction Management or similar is an added advantage
  • 5 to 7+ years of experience in managing data center/colocation, telecom, high tech or similar technical construction projects
  • Outstanding project management skills and success managing projects ranging from $100K to $1.5MM
  • Fluency in MS Excel, Word, Project, PowerPoint, Visio & Outlook; experience with SAP or similar a plus
  • Comprehensive understanding of Architecture and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) drawings and infrastructure systems  Quick question for you - click here
  • Data / statistical analysis skills are a strong advantage
  • Thorough knowledge of legal issues and safety standards 
  • Ability to plan and organize a team effort
  • The ability to maintain a clean, neat and organized filing system
  • Estimating experience a plus
  • OSHA-10 safety certification a plus
  • Experience in ACAD operating system a plus
In addition, you will need the following core competencies and characteristics:
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Willingness to take a hands-on approach to your work; you will not have an admin/assistant but will manage all responsibilities yourself
  • Capability of motivating and leading vendors, contractors, and teams working within a construction project
  • Effective time management and logical decision-making abilities
  • Ability to work independently
  • Capacity to work in a fast-paced and detailed environment
  • Strong focus on quality
In addition to these requirements, you must be willing and able to travel between 10% and 25% primarily domestically, depending upon project needs. You will work out of our Clifton, NJ office. 

The Role

Overview
Reporting to the Director, Construction Management, you will be responsible for the overall project planning and scheduling, resource allocation, project accounting, and control for a range of Telx construction and facility projects. Your responsibilities will span a broad spectrum, covering all the areas of project management, including project planning, cost management, cost estimating, time management, quality management, contract administration, and safety management. You will also provide technical direction and ensure compliance with quality industry standards.  Quick question for you - click here

Day-In-the-Life
You will join a team of two Construction Managers leading projects at Data Center facilities across the country. Typically, you will manage 4 to 6 projects of varying levels of complexity and in various phases at any one time. While you may be responsible for a large capital project on occasion, or handle smaller projects from $10-$100K, 90% of your work will have a cost of between $100K and $1.5MM and last from two to six months.  

We can promise you won’t get bored, as projects can be very different. You may be supporting our core business, replacing cooling towers or electrical equipment, upgrading an environment by refinishing a floor, or multiple environments by quoting equipment, like two dozen air conditioning units. To support the scope of the projects, you will leverage your strong MEP knowledge. We’re not expecting you to be a PE, but you will need solid knowledge to succeed. You will also utilize your strong analytical skills in the development and analysis of reports and other data, including status and spend reports.  

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:
  • Charting out project objectives and plans, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants
  • Bringing about optimum utilization of resources - labor, materials and equipment - and ensuring procurement at most cost-effective terms
  • Ensuring that all equipment and products meet company energy guidelines
  • Overseeing the construction project from start to finish.
  • Performing a key role in project planning, budgeting, and identification of resources needed
  • Performing project accounting functions including managing the budget, tracking team expenses, and minimizing exposure and risk in the project  Quick question for you - click here
  • Ensuring that construction activities move according to pre-determined project plan
  • Implementing various operations through proper coordination
  • Communicating effectively with the contractors responsible for completing various phases of the project
  • Coordinating the efforts of all parties involved in the project, including architects, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors and laborers
  • Monitoring the progress of construction activities on a regular basis and holding regular status meetings with all the sub-teams
  • Maintaining strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality and safety standards
  • Ensuring project documentation submittals are complete and per specification standards
  • Identifying the elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims
  • Providing value engineering ideas during the design process
  • Effectively reporting project status, milestones, performance metrics to management and executive team leaders
  • Ensuring proper close out documentation is completed and as-built drawings are developed accurately
  • Developing effective communications and mechanisms for resolving conflicts among the various participants
Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Video: While each data center campus is unique, this tour of 850 E. Collins gives you a glimpse of the features and amenities that make Digital Realty the data center provider of choice around the world. This site is part of our 69-acre Digital Dallas Data campus in the epicenter of North Dallas' high technology corridor.

Why Digital Realty

Varied and visible role
Managing construction projects at more than 20 sites across the U.S., you are bound to encounter a wide array of different types of projects. You will interact with a variety of stakeholders, showcase our ability to deliver on commitments, and enjoy strong visibility. Additionally, you will have a good deal of autonomy in achieving your goals.

Professional development
We know you'll bring strong experience and knowledge to this role, but given the diversity and volume of projects, you're bound to learn new things. Our success depends upon staying on the leading edge, so you will learn new technologies and best practices along with the rest of us. The talents that make you successful in this role -- planning, technical savvy, budgeting, etc. -- are the kinds of things we look for when advancement opportunities open up.

Exciting time to join
With the acquisition of Telx, Digital Realty adds robust colocation, strategic network dense connectivity, a vast and open partner ecosystem and unmatched freedom of choice to one of the world's largest data center footprints. As we integrate processes and teams from the two companies, there will be opportunities for strong performers to make their mark.

The "best of both worlds"
You'll find that working for our company may be a little bit different. We are small enough, with only 1300 employees across our global portfolio, that your hard work will be visible throughout the organization, yet our extensive offering of services and solutions and proven track record of growth; stability and industry-leading innovation give you the resources and tools you need to take your career to the next level.

Unique culture
We are a collaborative, people-focused company dedicated to quality and continuous improvement. When you become a member of our team, you receive our commitment to your continued development and support.

Strong foundation
Our financial strength and stability provide our customers with the assurance that Digital Realty and Telx will be their partner for current data center needs and those in the future, and our investment credit ratings provide us access to paths for more capital. We view each of our customers as a long-term partner.

Green standard for sustainability
We are committed to improving the performance and energy efficiency of our data centers through the creation, adoption and promotion of industry-leading best data center practices and experience. We are pioneers in thinking about green data centers and are also a Contributing Member of The Green Grid.

Excellent compensation
In addition to a competitive wage and discretionary bonus potential, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes all you would expect plus some pleasant surprises, like multiple flexible spending plans, a generous company match on the 401(k) plan, and more.

Pictured: our regional office in downtown Los Angeles is collocated with a state-of-the-art 489,722 square-foot mission critical datacenter and telecommunications facility.

Keys to Success

This role calls for a unique combination of knowledge and experience. Naturally, you'll need construction experience to be successful, but you must also have solid technical chops to work on projects in a colocation environment, and MEP knowledge to succeed across the board. You will be an organizational wizard in order to balance multiple projects simultaneously, always hitting your deadlines, and need high-energy to take a hands-on approach to managing multiple projects and competing priorities.

Just as important as your technical skills will be your interpersonal and communication abilities. You will coordinate among a number of internal and external stakeholders, and you'll need to promote collaboration while also holding others accountable. As you probably already know, there will be tough conversations at times -- you may need to be assertive in holding vendors to deadlines or diplomatic in managing expectations. 

Our most successful Construction Managers demonstrate a “do what it takes” approach to getting things done. For example, you will make your own travel arrangements and put in extra hours as needed to deliver on time. You might even go to a job site on the weekend. Weekend work is occasional, but it gives you a flavor of what “do what it takes" means. You will own your jobs and hold yourself to the highest standards. 

Pictured: Each of our data campuses offers state-of-the-art power, cooling, connectivity, and security systems. And each is part of the largest ecosystem of world-class US, European, and APAC carriers, hosting physical connection points for the world's telecommunications networks and Internet backbones.

About Digital Realty

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Globally delivering the Right Workload, in the Right Place, at the Right Value℠.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. supports the data center and colocation strategies of more than 600 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, gaming, life sciences and consumer products.

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

About Telx

Telx, Digital Realty's Colocation and Interconnection line of business, fuels infrastructure, interconnection and business progress. With industry-leading 100% uptime and 100% on-time service level agreements, Telx helps companies build more agile businesses faster with reduced infrastructure complexity and broader reach to new markets. At Telx, we're not just about making connections. We're all about making a difference.

Telx colocation and connectivity products serve a broad range of industries from network dense Internet/Cloud Gateway data centers located across 13 US markets: Atlanta, Charlotte (NC), Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, New York, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Seattle. With more than 50,000 network connections, Telx enables the hybrid cloud strategies of our customers, and the interconnection of more than 10 million square feet of data center space around the world.

Digital Realty offers a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled

Please do not forward unsolicited resumes to any employee of Digital Realty and its subsidiaries. Digital Realty is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited referrals.
Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at jpickens@engage2excel.com.
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