Director - Global Estimating

NTT GDC has an exciting opportunity for aDirector - Global Estimating. This role is responsible for managing the global estimating team and is accountable for the entire estimating program across all NTT GDC Projects. This will include establishing global standards, processes, and procedures and implementing them across the portfolio of projects. Playing a critical role in strategic decision making through project cost development from concept through completion to ensure financial success of the projects. Also responsible for developing long term capital planning based on the strategic roadmap and ultimately develop reasonable and competitive budgets for project funding. The Director will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including project managers, engineers, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure commercial success of the projects

This is a full time hybrid permanent position.

What you will do

• Manage the team of schedulers (internal and contracted employees) that will carry out all functions of the scheduling team. This includes setting goals and aligning on deliverables of each team member to achieve the strategic objectives for the organization
• Develop standardized schedule program requirements to be implemented across all Data Center projects. This may include, but not limited to, developing internal processes and requirements, developing requirements for GC contracts, creating standard milestones/definitions, creating standard project durations for early planning efforts, implementing consistent KPIs, overseeing project specific CPM schedules, and implementing earned value analysis
• Manage contractual scheduling requirements to be included in GC contracts. This will require ability to train/coach new project teams on how to implement scheduling requirements
• Review resource/cost loaded schedules to drive earned value analysis with project schedules
• Develop and implement KPIs (key performance indicators) to demonstrate current state project performance and detect potential issues
• Produce management level reports/indicators to demonstrate schedule performance across the portfolio of projects
• Effectively implement Last Planner/ Pull Planning requirements into the scheduling requirements
• Review GC project schedules to identify potential concerns/issues with a focus on mitigation. This would include a review of the GC schedule to validate relationships, schedule logic, milestones, and constraints to determine the health of the project schedule
• Collaborate with project teams to develop early project schedules using data driven durations
• Partner closely with NTT GDCA preconstruction, design, and project management to plan the project and maintain control through the project life cycle
• Work closely with NTT GDCA suppliers to meet scheduling requirements

What are we looking for

• Bachelors degree in construction management, Business, or Engineering
• Extensive demonstrated experience with construction scheduling responsibilities, that may include schedule development, schedule analysis, CPM scheduling, earned value analysis, TIA or other schedule impact analytical tools
• Experience with Data Centers or high-tech construction projects is preferred. PSP or PMP certification is a plus
• Fully versed in critical path scheduling requirements for construction projects
• Experience with earned value management and ability to utilize it in internal reporting
• Proficient in Primavera P6 scheduling software
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications to understand, build, and approve/accept schedules produced by contractors
• Experience in reviewing time impact analysis and recovery schedules
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills
• Capability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to clearly set and lead meetings to develop strong project control systems
• Ability to integrate data from P6 into power BI dashboards, excellent analytical, creative thinking, written and verbal communication skills

What we offer you

• An agile company culture with short decision-making paths and plenty of opportunities to show personal initiative
• Allowance for the use of public transport and job bikes
• Allowance for the use of sports facilities and a company gym
• Allowance for lunch and an excellent canteen facility
• Individual training and development opportunities
• Numerous other additional benefits such as birthday vouchers, employee advisory program, employee referral scheme, company events and much more

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Global Data Centers division of NTT Ltd.
Global Data Centers is a division of NTT Ltd. Our global platform is one of the largest in the world. NTT is ranked as one of the top three leaders worldwide by IDC in their Colocation and Interconnection Services MarketScape, spanning more than 20 countries and regions including North America, Europe, Africa, India and APAC.

As a neutral operator, we offer access to multiple cloud providers, a large variety of Internet Exchanges and telecommunication network providers including our own IPv6 compliant, tier 1 global IP network. Our clients benefit from tailored infrastructure and experience consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our reliable, scalable and customizable data centers.

Working for Global Data Centers EMEA
We are one of the leading and largest data center provider and for more than 20 years we have been supporting our clients from a wide variety of industries with our talented team of nearly 900 people (m/f/d). Today, we are designing and operating 18 data center locations across 160,000 sqm in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Great Britain and expanding into further markets. Our people come from a variety of industries and work together to find the best solution for every challenge. Due to the diversity of backgrounds our people (m/f/d) come from, the ability to work in teams and good communication skills are very important to us.

As a performance-oriented company, we value expert knowledge and people who want to shape the future. We are growing internationally and offer our people (m/f/d) the opportunity to work worldwide within the NTT Group if they are suitably qualified and interested.

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Location: Hemel Hempstead, GB

Posted Date: 10/9/2024