Pre-Development Project Manager

The Pre-Development Project Manager is primarily responsible for leading and managing the Pre-Development activities on a given project(s). The Project Manager will interact on a daily basis with Civil & Environmental Engineers, Designers, Development Consultants, municipality and utility staff, and internal stakeholders in various departments including Corporate Real Estate, Development, Engineering, and Data Center Operations staff.

The Project Manager should have both written and oral communication skills commensurate with this level of regular communication.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Manage the due diligence, entitlements, permitting of multiple projects on a campus(es) to facilitate new datacenter development.

Create and communicate updates on predevelopment program & project status on a monthly basis suitable for executive level reviews. Effectively present information in a manner to support efficient decision making.

Work with QTS stakeholders, design consultants, and construction teams to create a master campus development program for site(s), including a complete campus design solution and capital budget.

Communicate due diligence, entitlement & permitting risks, and identify risk mitigation strategies to maintain project timelines & budgets.

Oversee the development of site specific multi-phased campus development plans to achieve time, budget, and quality standards in a predictable fashion.

Continuously update campus master plan(s) to provide predictable statistics in a dynamic environment.

Draft scopes of work for due diligence, campus master planning, and permitting & participate in vendor screening, evaluation, price leveling, selection, and contract negotiations.

Ensure key stakeholders are familiar and understand the entitlements & permitting strategy for each assigned project.

Create & Monitor project budgets to achieve budget and cashflow predictability.

Establish due diligence, entitlements, and permit schedules and manage internal &