Director of Preconstruction, Data Centers & AI Infrastructure

Washington County, Arkansas

Our client, a construction firm expanding its data center capabilities, is seeking a preconstruction leader who can turn promising opportunities into well-planned projects. This role offers the opportunity to help build a business, shape a team, and guide the decisions that determine how complex facilities get delivered. Working closely with executive leadership, you will connect client development with technical estimating and establish the capabilities needed for sustainable growth.

Benefits

• Shape the people, practices, and partner network behind an expanding mission critical construction business.
• Work with senior leadership on market priorities, investment needs, and pursuit decisions.
• Own a broad remit connecting client development, estimating leadership, and team growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop prospective client relationships and select data center opportunities that fit the organization's capabilities and growth plans.
• Guide pursuits from initial feasibility conversations through proposals, presentations, award, and transition to construction.
• Oversee early cost models and detailed estimates, testing scope coverage, pricing assumptions, delivery options, and project risk.
• Partner with technical and field teams to plan complex building systems, equipment purchases, and construction sequencing.
• Build estimating practices, workload plans, and team capabilities while strengthening relationships with specialty trades and suppliers.
• Prepare operations teams to execute awarded work by clearly transferring budget commitments, scope decisions, procurement priorities, and unresolved risks.

Qualifications

• Bring at least 10 years of increasing responsibility in estimating, preconstruction, or construction, with experience directing teams or major pursuits.
• Offer substantial data center or mission critical project experience and a working command of power, cooling, mechanical, and electrical requirements.
• Demonstrate ownership of preconstruction delivery, multimillion-dollar budgets, and client relationships that supported successful awards.
• Hold a degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field, or bring equivalent professional experience.
• Communicate effectively with clients and project teams, exercise sound commercial judgment, and travel for business and project needs.
• Preferred experience includes building a new business unit, general contracting or design-build delivery, complex campus programs, and estimating platforms such as DESTINI Estimator, Bluebeam, On-Screen Takeoff, and Excel.

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