Construction Managers, St. Joseph County, Indiana - Data Center

WWPS is seeking two highly skilled and motivated Construction Managers to support the construction of a large-scale data center facility in St. Jospeh County, Indiana, near South Bend. These are full time positions with World Wide Professional Solutions and include comprehensive benefits beginning on Day One, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, and paid time off.

We are hiring for two critical onsite leadership positions:

• Civil Lead

• Vertical Construction Lead

Local candidates are encouraged to apply. For qualified candidates outside the area, per diem and travel arrangements or relocation packages are ready to go. WWPS is prepared to move quickly for experienced construction leaders who can support this high priority project.

Each Construction Manager will provide direct onsite oversight of construction execution while leading safety, schedule performance, quality, contractor accountability, and field coordination.

Reporting to the Senior Construction Manager and Project Management leadership, the Civil Lead and Vertical Construction Lead will serve as Owner’s representatives and ensure that general contractors and trade partners deliver their assigned scopes according to project requirements, schedule milestones, and quality standards.

Role Specific Responsibilities - Civil Lead

The Civil Lead will oversee site development, civil infrastructure, and horizontal construction activities.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead field execution for clearing, grading, mass excavation, erosion control, and site preparation.
• Oversee stormwater systems, sanitary systems, domestic water, fire water, underground utilities, duct banks, roads, paving, and site concrete.
• Coordinate civil interfaces with foundations, building construction, utility providers, and electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Monitor earthwork quantities, soil conditions, compaction requirements, excavation activities, and material placement.
• Coordinate soils, concrete, and civil material testing with third party testing agencies.
• Review civil drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, and contractor work plans.
• Verify that civil contractors maintain proper work sequencing, manpower, equipment, and material availability.
• Coordinate inspections, permitting requirements, and utility connections with local authorities and service providers.
• Identify civil scope conflicts, underground utility risks, access constraints, and weather related schedule impacts.

Vertical Construction Lead

The Vertical Construction Lead will oversee building construction, core and shell execution, and vertical trade coordination.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead field execution for foundations, structural concrete, structural steel, precast systems, building envelope, roofing, interiors, and building fit out.
• Manage sequencing between structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and controls contractors.
• Coordinate vertical construction interfaces with civil infrastructure, central utility systems, equipment installations, and commissioning activities.
• Review building drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, shop drawings, and contractor work plans.
• Monitor building progress by area, elevation, system, and construction zone.
• Verify installation readiness for major mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Lead first in place reviews for structural, architectural, and building system installations.
• Identify constructability issues, access constraints, trade stacking conflicts, and incomplete predecessor activities.
• Drive completion of building dry in, permanent power readiness, equipment room turnover, and other critical milestones.

Field Leadership and Execution

• Serve as the primary onsite field leader for the assigned scope while representing the Owner’s interests.
• Maintain a visible field presence and conduct daily site walks to identify safety concerns, coordination issues, quality deficiencies, and schedule risks.
• Drive a behavioral based safety culture and collaborate with contractors to maintain high safety standards.
• Coordinate daily and weekly progress meetings with general contractors, trade partners, project management, design teams, and commissioning personnel.
• Establish clear contractor accountability for planned activities, manpower commitments, milestone dates, and issue resolution.
• Communicate and escalate significant field issues to project management and executive leadership.

Schedule and Productivity Management

• Monitor construction progress against the general contractor’s integrated Primavera P6 schedule.
• Validate that daily field activities support critical path milestones and required turnover dates.
• Track field productivity metrics such as labor units, installed quantities, concrete placement, excavation volumes, linear footage, and completed work areas.
• Lead or participate in three week look ahead planning sessions.
• Identify manpower, material, equipment, access, design, and predecessor constraints.
• Develop recovery plans with contractors when progress falls behind schedule.
• Review contractor schedule updates, milestone reporting, and progress claims for accuracy.

Quality Management and Technical Oversight

• Conduct routine inspections to verify compliance with contract documents, approved drawings, specifications, and project quality requirements.
• Manage first in place reviews for major installations and establish acceptable quality benchmarks.
• Support the development and implementation of testing and inspection programs.
• Coordinate required inspections with contractors, testing agencies, design teams, and local authorities.
• Identify and document nonconformance issues.
• Drive corrective actions through completion and field verification.
• Confirm that work is complete and acceptable before allowing follow on activities to proceed.

Risk Identification and Issue Resolution

• Continuously evaluate field activities for risks to safety, schedule, quality, cost, access, or system turnover.
• Develop mitigation strategies in coordination with project leadership and contractors.
• Track RFIs, submittals, design clarifications, field issues, and open decisions that could affect construction progress.
• Support the review of contractor change orders and verify that schedule and cost impacts are documented.
• Escalate unresolved issues before they affect critical construction milestones.

Coordination and Stakeholder Interface

• Partner with Project Management, Design, Engineering, Quality, Safety, and Commissioning teams.
• Coordinate interfaces between general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and multiple trades.
• Work with local authorities and utility providers to support permitting, inspections, and site service requirements.
• Coordinate Owner furnished equipment deliveries, installation readiness, access requirements, and commissioning integration.
• Maintain alignment between construction execution, design intent, operational requirements, and turnover priorities.

Reporting and Documentation

• Prepare daily field reports summarizing completed work, manpower, safety observations, quality issues, schedule concerns, and key decisions.
• Provide weekly updates detailing productivity, milestone status, top risks, contractor performance, and recovery actions.
• Maintain accurate records of meetings, field photographs, inspections, progress metrics, and issue resolution.
• Provide data driven field updates for executive and project leadership reporting.

Commissioning and Closeout

• Collaborate with the Commissioning Agent to support startup, testing, functional verification, and integrated systems commissioning.
• Monitor turnover sequencing to achieve required building, mechanical, electrical, and system completion dates.
• Coordinate contractor support for equipment startup and commissioning activities.
• Drive punch list completion through clear ownership, tracking, and field verification.
• Oversee closeout documentation, including as built drawings, operations and maintenance manuals, warranties, inspection records, and turnover packages.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architecture, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent construction field experience will be considered.
• Candidates should have at least 10 years of progressive experience managing large scale commercial, industrial, mission critical, advanced manufacturing, or data center construction projects.
• Candidates for the Civil Lead position must have significant experience managing site development, earthwork, underground utilities, stormwater, roads, paving, site concrete, and related civil construction scopes.
• Candidates for the Vertical Construction Lead position must have significant experience managing structural, architectural, core and shell, building envelope, interior, and building systems construction.
• Data center or mission critical construction experience is strongly preferred.
• Candidates must demonstrate experience with field supervision, schedule management, quality control, contractor coordination, and issue resolution.
• A working knowledge of lean construction and continuous improvement practices is preferred.
• Candidates must be able to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, submittals, and technical documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and construction management platforms such as Primavera P6, Procore, or similar systems is required.
• Strong communication, leadership, analytical, and problem solving skills are required.
• Candidates must be comfortable working onsite in a fast-paced construction environment.

Benefits

This is a full time position with World Wide Professional Solutions. The position offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits beginning on Day One.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Short term and long term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.

 

World Wide Professional Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.