Design Project Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.   Turner & Townsend is seeking a Design Manager to work with our San Francisco team, and partner with our client, managing insurer design compliance across a portfolio of new data center developments.The Design Manager should have a background in design management or design coordination in the construction industry and be experienced in architectural, structural and fire protection design. Licensed architects, fire protection experience, and experience with insurer-led design approval processes is preferred.The role covers both pre-lease and construction phases. Pre-lease, the Design Manager assesses prospective sites and developer designs against insurer requirements and supports the transaction team. During preconstruction and construction, the Design Manager manages open insurer review items through to closure with the developer and their contractors.Serve as the primary point of coordination between the client design team, the insurer, and the developer on all matters of insurer design compliance.Maintain a compliance tracking matrix for each project recording open items, required evidence, responsible party, status and schedule impact.Review developer design submissions and insurer plan review letters, and identify non-compliances and outstanding evidence requirements.Manage open review items through to closure with the developer, general contractor and subcontractors.Organize and lead project-specific working sessions where open items require resolution with the relevant design and trade parties.Attend recurring coordination meetings with the insurer and represent the status of open items across the portfolio.Prepare weekly status reporting identifying blocking items, progress, required actions and impact to project milestones.Assess prospective sites during pre-lease due diligence and identify design conditions that cannot be remedied following lease execution.Support the transaction team in incorporating insurer requirements into leas...