Principal Construction Project Manager

MicrosoftOverview

Microsoft Cloud Operations Innovation (COI) builds and operates the infrastructure powering the worlds largest online services. COI delivers global-scale datacenters and services with a focus on operational excellence security compliance and environmental responsibility. Our mission centers on empowering every person and organization to achieve more while cultivating a workplace rooted in respect integrity accountability and inclusion.

Role Overview

Drives deployment of large-scale campus-based delivery solutions that have the potential to be used globally across entire portfolios. Provides guidance and corrective action when necessary. Analyzes the industry for best practices and internal process flows to recommend changes resulting in cost savings enhanced customer service or improved asset management. Makes decisions and influences partners to facilitate and accomplish complex issues impacting global construction projects. Manages any alterations made to the project scope and adjusts the overall plan to accommodate these changes. Reviews cost and key performance indicator metrics invoices processes and policies in order to communicate status to internal and external client partners. Acts as the primary point of contact for project development and delivery. Develops and maintains productive relationships with implementation partners Operations Security Authorities having jurisdiction and regional corporate leadership. Interprets safety standards and regulatory requirements to direct and enforce compliance and aggressive management of risk. Establishes and communicates risk mitigation goals and develops metrics dashboards and/or scorecards to drive progress. Helps to manage the relationship with vendor firms leadership team.

Capabilities & Skills

Analytical Skills-The ability to review quantitative or conceptual problems and situations to drawappropriateand valid conclusions from data presented. This includes analyzing data todeterminethe most significant elementsidentifycommon elements and themes in situations and actions and recognize cause and effect relationships.

Compliance Management-The ability to supervise andobservethe organizations conformity to various standards procedures rules and regulations.

Project Quality Assurance-Knowledgeof andthe ability to apply systematic and continuing processes of making sure that the projectis meetingspecified requirements.

Quality Assurance-Knowledgeof andthe ability to follow systematic and continuing processes of checking to see whether a product service or processis meetingspecified requirements. This includes knowledge of quality measurements and defined standards.

Regulatory Compliance-Knowledge of the rules regulations sanctions and other statutory requirements guidelines and instructions relating to local and/or international governing bodies and organizations both internally and externally.

Risk Analysis-Knowledge of Risk Management and Analysis the process of measuring or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk. This may include the ability toidentifyor develop strategies to transfer the risk to another party avoid the risk reduce the negative effect of the risk and accept some orall ofthe consequences of a particular risk.

Construction Planning and Logistics

Construction -Knowledge of materials methods and the tools involved in the construction repair and engineering of buildings houses or other structures such as highways roads and bridges.

Construction Consulting -The ability to provide management risk-based advisory dispute resolution and strategic communications services across all construction and engineering.

Construction Management -Knowledge of specialized project management techniques to oversee the planning design and construction of a project from its beginning to its end.

Construction Planning -The ability to plan how the team will manage and execute a construction project.

Construction Processes -Knowledge of the design process (creating the description of a new facility usually represented by detailed plans and specifications) and the construction planning process (identifyingactivities and resourcesrequiredto make the design a physical reality).

Scope Management -The ability to manage scope over the course of a project includingdeterminingwhich changes are essential estimating their impact on the project ensuring that changes do not expand scope beyond acceptable levels and keeping a change record to track progress.

Financial Responsibility

Budgeting-Knowledgeof andthe ability to develop andutilizebudgeting guidelines practices and techniques including forecasting. This may include the knowledge of the departments procedures and reporting systems toestablishfinancial budget information atan appropriateorganizationallevel.

Construction Budgets -The ability to manage allotted funds for a specific building or remodeling project. The ability toanticipateall costs and expenses of the building processtrackedthrough a form tool or spreadsheet.

Construction Risk-The ability toidentifyand manage any exposure topossible loss.

Cost Benefit-The ability to apply a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives (for example in transactions activities functional businessrequirementsor projects investments) todetermineoptions that provide the best approach to achieve benefits while preserving savings.

Financial Analysis-Knowledgeof andthe ability to use basic financial analysis (e.g. return on investment value chain analysis) related to marketing effectiveness resource allocations and new business opportunities.

Project Cost-Knowledge of the process ofidentifyingproject resources estimating costs developing the budget and managing the finances for a project.

Managing Vendor and Stakeholder Relationships

Conflict Resolution

The ability to manage conflict disharmony and strife among people and situations while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.

Incident Handling-The ability to lead and direct othersin the process of resolvingescalated problems through communication.

Influence Others-The ability to garner support for initiatives by gainingthe respectofothers and inspiring trust and confidence.

Negotiation-The ability to achieve mutually satisfying agreements in negotiations with others by listening to theirobjectives acting as the companys representative to effectively communicate the companysobjective and seeking common ground and collaborative solutions.

Team Facilitation-The ability to lead and orchestrate cross-functional teams to completeobjectives. This includes the skills of communicating and collaborating with othersleveragingresources and tools and coordinating processes.

Vendor Management-Knowledge of the process through which products and services arepurchasedfor use by the corporation and the ability toidentify select and manage vendors and suppliers who provide products and services to the company. This includes knowledge of the development of RFIs and RFPs and the ability to incorporate necessary technical requirements into contracts.

Project Management and Judgement

Change Management -The ability to define and implement procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. This may include adapting to change controlling change and/or affecting change.

Decision Making -The ability to make decisions in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment. This includes the ability to define diagnose anddeterminean appropriate resolution recommendation or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g. resources costs tradeoffs).

Incident Management -The ability toidentify record classify and apply a structured response process to manage incidents until the affected service is restored. Includes knowledge of the progression of an incident through occurrence of the incident detection of the incident diagnosis of the cause of failure repair of the problem recovery of the problem back to the live infrastructure and restoration of the service.

Multitasking -The ability to process andattend tomultiple types of information and/or perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

Problem Solving-The ability toidentifyproblems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Project Management -Knowledgeof andthe ability to carry out the process of planning organizing and managing tasks and resources toaccomplisha well-definedobjective. This includes the ability to manage and provide project deliverablesoptimizethe contribution of the people involved and assess the impact of project decisions on quality productivity schedules cost performance etc.

Project Planning-The ability to manage a project schedule defining and sequencing activities estimating activity durations and developing and controlling the schedule.

Vendor Selection and Evaluation-The ability to evaluate and select vendors who meet specifications and requirements. This includes knowledge of the development of RFIs and RFPs and the ability to incorporate necessary technical requirements into contracts.

Other:

Creativity -The ability to apply ingenuity inventiveness and imagination to the inclusive design and construction of a product service program or initiative.

Oral Communication -The ability to make a verbal message understood and to receive/understand messages during in-person or remote (e.g. telephone) interactions.

Presentation Skills -The ability to prepare effective presentations in content and function and to speak competently to the level of the audience.

Budget and Controls - Develops and reports on scope schedule and budget of project. Implements project controls in work activities (e.g. project expenditure requests (PERs) Professional Service Requests (PSRs) change orders and pay applications). Reduces cycle time improves quality and identifies and implements ways to lower cost.

Change Management -Analyzes the industry for best practices and internal process flows to recommend changes resulting in cost savings enhanced customer service or improved asset management.

Coordination -Acts as the primary point of contact for project development and delivery. Shapes and implements regional construction execution plans. Initializes andidentifiesopportunities to discuss and integrate lessons learned advocating for safe and secure security-first mindset during project planning. Participates in and may drive Microsoft partner engagement communications plans and community events.

Drives Results -Makes decisions and influences partners to facilitate and accomplish complex issues impacting 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 milestone delivery and core values and priorities (Safety Security Quality Schedule Cost)).

Financial Acumen -Creates applies and shares best practices toidentifyand drive cost-effective solutions for the strategic and tactical delivery of a construction project. Applies influence strategy and decision-making to drive solutions schedules and manage change with clients sponsors vendors and operational units including lower-level staff and internal partners.

Goal Alignment -Develops andmaintainsproductive relationships with implementation partners Operations Security Authorities havingjurisdiction and regional corporate leadership. Engages andsourcesother internal teams (e.g. Security OSSC Information Technology MSIT Legal Project Engineering Business Risk Management etc.) tomaintainthe corporate vision and create goals for the project. Advises and directs internal teams and supporting specialty consultants to update and edit the Basis of Design (BOD) as needed.

Managing Resources -Manages any alterations made to the project scope and adjuststhe overall planto accommodate these changes.

Project Management -Drives deployment of large-scale campus-based delivery solutions that have the potential to be used globally across entire portfolios (e.g. new and/or retrofit datacenter facilities). Develops/establishesprogram/project goals for teams assigns overall responsibilities ensures performance measurements andseeksand delivers feedback to achievetimelyresults that prioritize security in documentation design and/or execution.

Project Tracking- Reviews cost and key performanceindicator(KPI) metrics invoices processes and policiesin order tocommunicate status to internal and external client for on-schedule delivery by providing project progress reports including scope schedule and budget.

Risk Mitigation -Establishesand communicates risk mitigation goals and develops metricsdashboardsand/or scorecards to drive progress. Presents andreportssafety and security goals and progress to regional executive leadership.

Safety and Regulation -Interprets safety standards and regulatory requirements (e.g. Americans with Disabilities Act ADA) to direct and enforce compliance and aggressive management of risk. Creates and reinforces safety program routines security project and contractor audits. Demands safe environments/work sites andparticipatesin governance policies and decision-makingregardingrisk compliance and management.

Technical Acumen -Provides guidance and corrective action when necessary. Provides unique knowledge andanswersquestionsregardingdelivery options.

Vendor Management -Helps tomanage the relationship with vendor firms leadership team. Establishes and monitors vendors performance goalsin order toensure compliance with security policies non-disclosure agreements contracts and prior audit results. Presents cash flow and budget summary reports to the delivery and executive teams.

Vendor Selection -Develops reviews and approves vendor scope of work design review of site and building plans pay-application and invoices.

Required/minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Construction Project Management Architecture Engineering or related field AND 12 years related experience OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Construction Project Management Architecture Engineering or related field AND 15 years related experience OR equivalent experience.15yearsexperienceworking on data center projects.

The Construction Project Manager delivers Microsofts datacenter capacity by leading highimpact multistakeholder construction programs across U.S. campus and metro regions. This role ensures alignment to Microsoft standards for Safety Security Quality Schedule and Cost while driving program maturity consistent execution frameworks and coordination across Engineering Operations Security and vendor teams.

The CPM represents COI and DCD as a senior individual contributor with broad influence across internal/external partners to ensure technical operational financial and compliance goals are met.

Impact & Scope - CPMs operate autonomously owning major program packages or multibuilding deployments. They influence crossfunctional teams resolve blockers requiring deep judgment and standardize practices that scale across regions or portfolios. This role shapes strategy for future delivery methods creates repeatable processes and uplifts execution quality across multiple sites.

Core Success Measures

• Delivery predictability across multiple concurrent builds

• Crossfunctional alignment with Security Engineering Project Controls and Operations

• Cycletime reduction and consistency of program execution methodologies

• Portfoliolevel adoption of best practices and standards

• Vendor performance stability and audit readiness

• Regional readiness for handover to Operations

Working Conditions / Requirements

• Ability to work on active construction sites andcomply withPPE requirements

• Ability to coordinate with teams across time zones

• Experience leading multibuilding or campusscale construction programs

• Experience influencing cross-functional design engineering or commissioning orgs

• Demonstrated progression in leadership responsibility across large technical programs

• Strong executivelevel communication experience (briefings escalations portfolio reporting)

Competencies

• Strategic Agility: Connects project execution to broader business and regional strategies

• Enterprise Partnership: Builds alignment across Engineering Operations Security and external authorities

• Execution Excellence:Establishesrepeatable methodologies supporting consistent delivery

• Systems Thinking: Anticipates multisystem interactions across construction MEP IT and operations

Microsoft Values Fit

• Models a culture of Safety and Security in all decisions

• Demonstrates a growth mindset inclusion collaboration and customer obsession

• Acts with integrity and sound judgment when resolving complex issues

Background Check 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 upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Construction Project Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130900 - $277200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165600 - $303600 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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