Technical Program Manager, Data Center Construction

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in leadership role(s) with project lifecyle phases including on-site construction lead position.
• 2 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams in an organization.
• Experience in Project, Engineering, or Construction Management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Construction Management, or in a related technical field.
• 5 years of leadership experience of project lifecyle phases including on-site construction lead position.
• Experience managing multi-group/disciplinary construction projects with civil, architectural, electrical, mechanical, controls, security monitoring, fire safety, networking/fiber, server equipment, systems, and infrastructure.
• Experience in requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling and achieving objectives within set goals.
• Experience in managing vendor relationships and an understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry, and pursuit of industry leading practices.
• Experience in leading multi-disciplinary projects.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

As a Technical Program Manager you will use your domain specific expertise to drive cross-functional and cross-team programs that create business value for Google. You will be responsible for running predictable programs ensuring low friction execution and efficiently managing resources and investments helping teams plan for the future. In addition, you may be involved in technical architecture work and apply technical judgment to steer them in the right direction.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Manage site-wide Data Center construction and delivery organization.
  
• Identify problems and opportunities.
  
• Perform operationalization and optimize programs.
  
• Navigate and reduce ambiguity.
  
• Lead scopes of work related to construction operations and Capital Expenditure (CapEx) improvement.