Microsoft Americas Regional Construction Leader 

United States, Texas, Houston 

609661487

Cloud Operations + Innovation is the team behind the cloud. Within CO+I, Datacenter Construction Delivery (DCD) is responsible for delivering datacenter capacity for Microsoft’s cloud business meeting all safety, quality, sustainability, schedule, and budget requirements.

The Americas (AMER) region is inclusive of Canada, United States, Mexico and South America. This region is growing significantly and will be distributed into two distinct regions. The DCD Construction

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
• 12+ years experience in hyper scale datacenter, micro-electronics, pharmaceutical, semiconductor or other critical infrastructure.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience and passion in safety leadership to ensure that there is a culture that drives physical safety, mental health and well-being for everyone
• Promotes, advocates and an Ally for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
• Ethics in the management of large capital projects that deliver predictable results in safety, quality, cost, schedule
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk and develop risk mitigation strategies to deliver projects on time and achieve the required business results
• Experienced at recruiting, managing and developing an organization that crosses multiple countries and regions
• Cross-group leadership, collaborator and influencer across teams and organizations with proven success in participating in cross-functional teams to deliver on key projects.
• Be able to work within a dynamic team of full-time employees and consultants across the AMER Regions and Global partners.
• High personal standard to deliver a thoughtful, polished and quality work product.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 16, 2024.

• Provide critical leadership, ownership and accountability for the team's deployment and delivery of large-scale, campus and/or regionally based delivery solutions to predictably deliver Datacenter capacity (e.g., new and/or retrofit Datacenter solutions) while also socializing with other Regional and Global leaders.
• Provides visible leadership and advocates for safe worksites by adhering to Microsoft Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) organizational requirements and industry best practices/procedures. Safety and injury prevention is a Core Value with a focus on culture, and ensuring that everyone is able to perform their work safely and return home everyday without injury.
• Sets goals for internal and external project teams under their purview of responsibility, delegates responsibilities, measures performance against contracted key performance indicators (KPIs) and seeks and delivers feedback to achieve timely results.
• Develops, manages, and reports on Safety, Quality, scope, schedule, and budget of all AMER Sub-Regional projects.
• Responsible for oversight and implements project risk identification/mitigation, governance and controls for all Regional work activities.
• Partners and provides critical leadership with peers in Engineering, Supply Chain and Project Controls that forms the AMER Leadership Team (LT) with oversight of each Region and Sub-Regional Leadership Teams.
• Analyzes and recommends innovative delivery options utilizing best practices and trends.
• Supports the development and implementation of all organizational procedures and standards, and ensures they are followed by all team members and vendors.
• Influences and provides direction and coaching to internal and external partners to facilitate and accomplish complex, critical issues which may significantly impact global construction projects (e.g., establishing and executing upon team goals, following business processes, engaging vendor relationships, and fostering cross-group collaboration efforts with the agreed-upon project strategy and milestones).
• Reviews and provides feedback to the team regarding resource forecasting, hiring, as well as supply chain strategies, equipment procurement, allocation, and inventory management that supports predictable project delivery.
• Leads the team's accountability for on-schedule delivery of all projects in the AMER Portfolio by ensuring project progress reports including safety, quality scope, schedule, and budget are reviewed on a cadence that predictably delivers the business results.
• Conducts frequent site visits within the Region to assess project status, risk, directly supports and promotes project team morale.
• Provides Leadership and oversight of the Sub-Regional Leads to ensure that project reviews and status updates are based on current data, risk assessments and mitigation strategies that proactively resolve constraints and blockers that may inhibit on-time and on budget project delivery to the business.
• Leads and drives coordination for meetings and activities with vendors, cost managers, and/or owner/architect/contractors. Initializes and identifies opportunities to discuss and integrate lessons learned.
• Engages, advises, and collaborates with other internal teams Datacenter Engineering (DCE), Global Supply Chain (GSC), Project Controls (PC), End to End (E2E), CO+I, Legal, Risk Management to maintain the corporate vision and create goals for the projects.
• Prepares root cause analysis (RCA) and shares lessons learned with relevant stakeholders to ensure that the teams are learning and getting better together for the business.
• Establishes, reviews, approves, and communicates risk mitigation goals and develops metrics, dashboards and/or scorecards to drive progress.
• Analyzes safety metrics and communicates and applies results to drive project action and individual development to lower-level staff and vendors.
• Directs and oversees the management of vendors, ensuring compliance with contracts and prior audit results.
• Controls vendor performance relative to cash-flow and budget summaries (with cost management support).
• Oversees and implements project controls in work activities (e.g., project expenditure requests (PERs), professional service requests (PSRs), change orders, pay applications and preparation of requests for proposals (RFPs)
• Identifies and directs vendor scope of work, design review of site and building plans, change orders, and invoices.
• Oversees the creation and application of best practices for identifying and driving cost-effective solutions for the strategic and tactical delivery of a construction project.
• Identifies growth opportunities, builds development plans with direct reports, and conducts development discussions. Supports mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning. Leverages resources to help employees develop skills and supports their career interests.
• Drives the execution of projects by identifying customer and operational needs, setting priorities, removing barriers and obstacles, and allocating resources.
• Partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.
• Models compliance and represents the Microsoft Values and the One Microsoft culture.
• Promotes company policies, procedures, mission, and values, by training and providing direction to direct reports in their use and application.
• Establishes and communicates performance expectations; identifies performance gaps and monitors performance to ensure plans are met.

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