Sr Construction Manager (Data Centre Developer)

Senior Construction Manager (Sr CM) Overview:The Senior Construction Manager (Sr CM) is responsible for maintaining continuous awareness of project conditions and proactively escalating all real or potential issues to senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure informed, timely decision-making. The Sr CM is not responsible for resolving issues independently, but for clearly documenting, communicating, and escalating risks related to cost, schedule, scope, quality, design, and coordination so leadership is never surprised.Core Responsibilities:Proactively identify and escalate all actual or potential project issues without delay, ensuring senior leadership is fully informed of risks and emerging concerns.Review General Contractor payment applications for accuracy, completeness, and contractual compliance, validating progress and stored materials using infrastructure trackers and field data, and escalating discrepancies prior to processing.Review change order requests to confirm clear scope definition, proper justification, identified cost and schedule impacts, and inclusion of all supporting documentation (RFIs, sketches, meeting notes), escalating any change orders outstanding for more than 30 days and proactively communicating discussions or conditions likely to result in future changes.Track Owner-Furnished / Contractor-Installed (OFCI) equipment deliveries against required need-by dates, escalating fabrication delays, logistics issues, or coordination gaps that could impact the schedule.Perform daily reviews of construction reports, site photos, and infrastructure trackers to maintain situational awareness of trade progress, coordination issues, and risk items, and use this information to support change order logs, pay application reviews, and risk tracking.Meet daily with the Construction Manager to review work activities, trade sequencing, progress, and near-term risks, and align on items requiring escalation or documentation.Facilitate regular coordination calls with the Architect and Engineering team to address contractor questions, reduce formal RFIs when possible, confirm outcomes through documentation when required, and review open submittals that may impact the schedule.Monitor RFIs and submittals to identify items that are late, lack timely responses, involve coordination or third-party issues, impact schedule or cost, or may result in change orders, ensuring these items are documented in daily reports and escalated appropriately.