Associate Project Manager: Data Center Construction & Customer Installs

About the role:

The Associate Project Manager (APJM) is a high-impact role responsible for leading customer infrastructure installations and driving the administrative success of large-scale capital Data Center construction projects. You will serve as the primary bridge between Data Center leadership, global clients, and the Project Management team. Your mission is twofold: ensuring new customers are onboarded with precision and maintaining the financial integrity of multi-million dollar capital projects through rigorous budget tracking and vendor management.

This job is part of the Project Management function. They are responsible for the management of projects from initiation through completion.

What you'll do

Core Responsibilities

1. Provide Customer Install Leadership:

• Lead end-to-end customer installations, serving as the primary point of contact for rack-and-stack, cage builds, and structured cabling deployments.

• Coordinate between client technical teams and internal operations to ensure \"Day 1\" readiness.

2. Financial & Project Controls

• Project Lifecycle Support: Once scope is defined, execute the administrative engine of the project, including opening purchase orders, processing requisitions, and managing change orders.

• Provide Budget Oversight: Maintain the \"source of truth\" for project data, including status reports and budget health.

• Financial Collaboration: Partner with the Cost Manager to provide accurate monthly forecasts, CIP (Capital in Progress) reports, and accrual data.

• Vendor Management: Initiate the vendor onboarding process and obtain competitive quotations for PM review.

• Audit & Payment: Resolve complex invoice discrepancies and research payment statuses to maintain healthy vendor relationships.

3. Strategic Impact

• Ensure projects remain on schedule by removing administrative bottlenecks.

• Act as a key contributor to Iron Mountain's fastest-growing business segment, directly impacting revenue through successful project delivery.

4. Support

• Submitting required information for purchase orders, processing requisitions, and coordinating change orders as authorized by the PM.

• Reviewing and processing invoices for payment as approved by the PM.

• Providing accrual data for the Project Controller and PC

• Setting up new vendors in the system as requested by the PM. (I do the initial request, the rest is done by Project Controller/PC)

• Keeping record of all project data including status and budget updates.

• Solving problems and researching payment status of invoices.

• Updating PO report, and Monthly Accruals report. (Collaborate with Cost Manager to provide forecast and accruals)

• Obtaining vendor quotations for processing

• Communicating regularly with vendors, customers, and internal Iron Mountain teams to provide payment status on invoices.

Key Relationships & Environment

• The Model: This is an outsourced role through CBRE (GRE Model), reporting to the CBRE Operations Manager while being embedded daily within the Iron Mountain Data Center PM Team.

• Integration: You will leverage the collective knowledge of the Senior Project Coordinator and wider GRE account team to master internal systems and best practices.

What you'll need:

Critical Competencies

• Data Center Literacy: Ability to interpret projectscopes, technical descriptions, and infrastructure proposals.

• Financial Acumen: Proficiency in MS Excel/Google Sheetsfor sophisticated budget tracking and \"Project Controller\" levelaccuracy.

• Matrix Navigation: Proven success working acrossdifferent organizations (CBRE & Iron Mountain) and managing stakeholderswith competing priorities.

• Communication: High-level verbal and written skillsnecessary to interface with executive leadership and global clients.

• Resilience: Ability to handle conflict constructivelyand thrive in a deadline-driven, multi-tasking environment.

Education and Experience

• Required: Associate's Degree (AA/AS) or equivalentcombined with relevant prior experience including project management execution,support, real estate budgeting, or construction accounting is highly preferred.

• Travel: Willingness to travel approximately 50%.

Turner & Townsend carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for this position is $65,000 annually and the maximum salary for this position is $75,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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