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About the Role

Turner & Townsend is seeking an Associate Director, Program Manager to lead pre-lease technical due diligence for a confidential hyperscale data center client. This program and risk management role involves assessing candidate sites, directing specialists, and making critical go/no-go decisions under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical diligence on candidate sites, covering power, land, utilities, entitlements, environmental, geotechnical, and civil constraints.
• Define investigation scope and order, confirming findings address transaction team questions.
• Direct review of developer budgets, long lead equipment pricing, and reimbursable cost exhibits.
• Challenge cost analysis, determine implications for the deal, and set scope for cost specialists.
• Direct review of developer schedules, covering critical path, sequencing, long lead equipment, and utility milestones.
• Determine schedule risks and mitigation strategies with schedule specialists.
• Own the risk picture for each site, grading findings, assigning owners, and quantifying exposure.
• Drive risk mitigation to closure.
• Distinguish stated information from secured information and communicate confidence levels accurately.
• Raise serious findings immediately with impact and recommended options.
• Act as the single point of contact for the client through the deal cycle.
• Summarize findings for decision makers and provide technical input for negotiations.
• Scope, direct, and hold accountable external consultants supporting diligence.
• Review consultant deliverables for quality.
• Manage day-to-day interface across internal teams, developer counterparties, and client groups.
• Chase input, resolve conflicts, and keep decisions moving.
• Serve as the single source of truth on diligence status, open items, decisions, and outstanding risk.
• Produce a record of findings, assumptions, and accepted risks at lease execution for the delivery team.
• Build repeatable diligence approaches, checklists, and templates to scale program capacity.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Data center development experience preferred, including analyzing development opportunities, evaluating leasing opportunities, or taking sites through diligence and entitlement.
• Mission critical, hyperscale, or complex technical facility experience, and backgrounds in site due diligence, pre-lease investigation, or land development will also be considered.
• Working understanding of data center construction, including power, cooling, and long lead equipment.
• Ability to interrogate developer submissions and identify schedule risks.
• Thorough knowledge of program and risk management methods and best practices.
• Proven ability to manage multiple deals concurrently, prioritize with incomplete information, and make sound judgment calls.
• Self-starter who takes initiative, adapts quickly, and problem-solves independently.
• Ability to understand and communicate contract requirements, construction drawings, specifications, and interpret construction methods.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief senior stakeholders concisely.
• Technologically proficient, including MS Suite and Google Workspace.
• Comfort building and running own tracking tools is an advantage.
• Ability to understand and follow site HSSE policies.

Skills

• MS Suite
• Google Workspace
• Program management
• Risk management
• Technical due diligence
• Cost review
• Schedule review
• Stakeholder management
• Communication

Location

• San Francisco (preferred)
• Other locations considered
• Remote considered

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Associate Director
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience

Education Level

• A degree is not required.

Salary/Compensations

• $170K-$200K per year

About the Company

• Founded in 1952 and formerly known as Heery International Inc., the firm operates throughout the United States as part of Turner & Townsend.
• Specializes in project and program management for public sector organizations, with industry-leading experts in corporate, cultural, healthcare, justice, sports, K-12 education, higher education, aviation and government facilities.
• Recognized for service excellence by a broad spectrum of professional organizations and industry publications.
• The talented multidisciplinary team at Turner & Townsend Heery exceeds client expectations — adding value, best practice and expertise at every turn.
• The team's unique client-centric culture is integrated into each project and reflects a passion for the built environment and staying true to the client’s vision.

Equal Opportunity

• Turner & Townsend is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
• Qualified candidates with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with LA County ordinance and CA law.