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About the Role

Lead pre-lease technical due diligence for a confidential hyperscale data center client, assessing candidate sites and providing technical, cost, and schedule facts for go/no-go decisions. This program and risk management role involves owning diligence on a portfolio of live deals and directing internal specialists, third-party consultants, and client partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical diligence on candidate sites, covering power, land, utilities, entitlements, environmental, geotechnical, and civil constraints.
• Define investigation scope and order for each deal, confirming findings address transaction team questions.
• Direct the review of developer budgets, long lead equipment pricing, and reimbursable cost exhibits.
• Challenge cost analysis, determine implications for the deal, and set the scope for dedicated cost specialists.
• Direct the review of developer schedules, covering critical path, sequencing, long lead equipment, and utility milestones.
• Decide where schedule dates are genuinely at risk and what is required to maintain them, utilizing dedicated schedule specialists.
• Own the risk picture for each site, grading findings, assigning owners and next steps, quantifying exposure, and driving mitigation.
• Distinguish stated developer information from secured facts, communicating confidence levels supported by evidence.
• Raise serious findings the same day they surface, with impact and recommended options.
• Act as the single point of contact for the client through the deal cycle, summarizing findings and providing technical input for negotiations.
• Scope, direct, and hold accountable external consultants supporting diligence.
• Review external consultant deliverables for quality before client submission.
• 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 for each site.
• Produce a record of findings, assumptions, and accepted risks at lease execution for handover to the delivery team.
• Build repeatable diligence approaches, checklists, and templates to scale the program.
• 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 be considered where transferable.
• Working understanding of data center construction, including power, cooling, and long lead equipment.
• Sufficient command of cost and schedule to interrogate developer submissions and identify critical path 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 with initiative, adaptability, and problem-solving skills.
• Technical skills to read, understand, and communicate contract requirements, including construction drawings and specifications.
• 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 personal tracking tools is an advantage.
• Ability to understand and follow site HSSE policies.

Skills

• Program management
• Risk management
• Technical due diligence
• Cost review
• Schedule review
• Third-party management
• Stakeholder management
• Reporting
• Governance
• MS Suite
• Google Workspace

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

Benefits

• Base salary

About the Company

• Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
• Works with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources.
• Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
• Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.

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.