Lease Construction Manager Milano

Lease Construction Manager
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.

Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) team is responsible for delivering core datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud business.

The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects.

We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world's largest online services.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

**Responsibilities**:

The EMEA Lease delivery organization, DC Construction Build Management (DCBM), consists of the Data Centre Integration (DCI) and Lease Construction Management (LCM) teams.

The DCI team is responsible for DC IT Fit works and the LCM team for Lease Construction Delivery oversight.

LCM work with Lease Providers and internal stakeholders in ensuring that Lease Providers set up and safely manage project delivery to the agreed contracted Lease delivery or Ready For Service (RFS) date.

As we rapidly expand in existing countries and into new geographies in EMEA, we are seeking a Lease Construction Program Manager to support projects in Italy and throughout Region, and represent as required, the EMEA DCBM Regional Director and Sub

- Regional Lead with overseeing Lease Providers in their planning and safe construction of Contracted Data Centres lease capacity, including strategies and initiatives to drive Safety, Schedule and Quality KPIs, interactions with the Lessor and vendor SL Teams and business reporting.

They need to have strong interpersonal, communication, planning and organisational skills, strong business acumen and the ability to self-direct in a fast-paced environment across multiple projects.

This individual will need to demonstrate a strong background in DC or industrial facilities delivery (50+MW IT Load, and/or 70M+$) across a number of countries, preferably in EMEA.

They will need to have had relevant onsite construction management experience and have a Construction Management, Architectural or MEP background.

They will be accountable for assessing the Lessor construction capabilities, overseeing construction delivery, managing risk and coordination with internal stakeholders to ensure safe delivery to the agreed RFS dates.

They will support by ensuring Lessors are set up for successful and safe project construction delivery, issue mitigation planning and escalation, be a relentless driver of our safety culture and contractual requirements and drive Lease Providers with process and organisational development required to meet planned growth and lessons learned.

Drives data centre lease construction activities on local/campus projects and provides key input on all data centre related activities, leveraging experiences and technical knowledge to ensure sound and data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities will include. - Driving LCM construction project management process requirements across the region. - Carry out schedule deep-dives to confirm delivery or mitigation planning. - Supporting the escalation of project risk and issues to ensure suitable and optimal mitigation planning. - Assessing and minimizing risks to Lease Construction delivery execution strategy. - Support with process improvements and internal stakeholder alignment and reporting. - Being a relentless advocate for safe working practices.

It is expected that she/he will demonstrate purposeful presence in every engagement.

They will work closely with the Lease Construction Team, MSFT Safety Team and the Lessor SLT and Safety Teams as required to support and drive the safety focus at the site and portfolio level across our diverse cultural and geographical region. - Appling a 'growth-mindset' philosophy to the day to day tasks and ensuring that any deficiencies identified within the processes/framework are addressed and improvements are implemented. - Supporting and developing Lessor Portfolio Meetings with Lessor Construction Delivery LT to carry out project RAGs reviews and drive Lessor delivery organization development to meet current and committed delivery requirements and lessons learned. - Supporting the development and roll out of Lease Project Controls initiatives to improve schedule predictability and risk mitigation. - Support development of more stringent schedule specification, quantified risk assessment and management. - Support ongoing initiatives to drive quality and schedule predictability within the current constrained supply market including. - Support continues improvement in development of relevant reporting metrics. - Support Design and Quality compliance initiatives. - Support coordination with internal stakeholders on RFS ready requirements & safety, schedule and quality opportunities. - Working with the regional LCM and DCI Teams on aligning