Lead utility coordination efforts across multiple data center development projects.
Develop and maintain utility delivery plans, milestone schedules, and critical-path tracking.
Integrate utility milestones into overall project development and construction schedules.
Drive accountability for achieving utility-related commitments and energization dates.
Identify schedule, permitting, engineering, procurement, and construction risks that could impact energization.
Develop and implement mitigation plans to maintain project schedules.
Evaluate utility scopes, infrastructure plans, and project assumptions for gaps and dependencies.
Escalate critical issues and recommend corrective actions.
Serve as the primary point of coordination between internal project teams, external utility providers, consultants and contactors, and other third parties.
Partner with Development, Design, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams.
Facilitate recurring meetings, both internal and external, and executive updates and reviews.
Present project status and risk assessments to executive leadership and other stakeholders.
Develop standardized utility coordination processes and reporting frameworks.
Maintain portfolio-level milestone tracking and risk registers.
Drive continuous improvement across utility delivery and project execution practices.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Energy Systems, Business, or a related field.
8–15 years of construction project management experience, with at least 5 years in utility, mission-critical, or data center industries.
Experience managing utility interconnections, substations, transmission, distribution, or large-scale infrastructure projects.
Strong understanding of utility planning, construction, and energization processes, and project execution.
Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with significant schedule and capital implications.
Exceptional communication, organizational, and relationship-management skills.
Experience presenting to executive leadership and influencing strategic decisions.

Understanding and following Cologix’s information security, cybersecurity, privacy, and environmental management policies, procedures, and standards.
Ensuring conformance with the requirements of both the Information Security Management System (ISMS) and the Environmental Management System (EMS).
Remaining vigilant and reporting any information security or environmental incidents, vulnerabilities, risks, or non-conformities to the appropriate teams.
Actively participating in Cologix’s efforts to maintain and improve information security and environmental performance.

Director, Utility Delivery – Coordination

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