Principal Data Center Asset & Quality Manager

**This role is based in the El Paso, TX/Las Cruces, NM area and requires one to live in the area. Relocation assistance available. Only apply if you currently live in this area or are able to relocate permanently to the area. **

Asset, Material, & Inventory Management:
- Own the end-to-end material readiness process for telecom infrastructure, coordinating requirements from design and procurement through receipt, staging, site delivery, installation, and acceptance.

- Develop and maintain detailed visibility into material demand, procurement status, material lead times, installation durations, delivery schedules, warehouse inventory management, site receiving, installation readiness, and quality acceptance.

- Partner with telecom contractors, material suppliers, procurement teams, design managers, and construction teams to proactively identify material shortages, long-lead risks, delivery constraints, damaged or missing assets, and other conditions that could affect project schedule or cost.

- Establish appropriate inventory controls, asset tracking practices, material handling requirements, and reconciliation processes to ensure materials are properly received, stored, protected, transferred, installed, and accounted for.

- Ensure material planning strategically incorporates appropriate schedule buffers and mitigation strategies so isolated supply chain or installation issues can be resolved without affecting critical construction milestones.

Quality Assurance & Installation Acceptance:
- Establish and manage a comprehensive quality assurance and acceptance program for telecom materials and installation acceptance.

- Develop inspection, verification, documentation, and acceptance requirements that ensure installations comply with approved engineering and design requirements, project specifications, manufacturer requirements, established construction standards, applicable standards/codes, and industry best practices.

- Coordinate quality inspections and acceptance activities with internal and external partners across multiple construction phases and telecommunications systems/workstreams. 

- Identify installation discrepancies, material damage and defects, incomplete documentation, or other quality concerns and drive timely resolution with responsible contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

- Maintain clear visibility and reporting into quality acceptance status, open deficiencies, corrective actions, and readiness for downstream construction and commissioning activities.

Program Development & Standards:
- Develop and implement an effective, efficient, repeatable asset management and installation quality program capable of scaling across a multi-phase giga-scale construction environment.

- Develop standards, templates, workflows, procedures, controls, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms spanning material planning, receipt, inventory management, staging, installation verification, quality inspection, corrective action, and final acceptance.

- Partner with engineering, design, telecom, construction, schedule, cost, procurement, and quality subject matter experts to ensure processes integrate appropriately with existing systems, tools, and project controls.

- Balance rigor with practicality. Develop standards that provide appropriate governance, investment protection, and quality assurance, while promoting agility and speed to market within our dynamic construction environment.

- Continuously improve processes based on field experience, reporting trends, supply chain performance, schedule impacts, partner feedback, and lessons learned.

Construction Coordination: 

- Coordinate material and quality management across a complex, multi-phase construction program with overlapping design, procurement, construction, installation, and acceptance activities.

- Translate design requirements, bills of material (BOMs), and construction schedules into actionable material, logistics, inspection, and acceptance plans.

- Develop, organize, maintain, and report the material readiness and quality acceptance pipeline status across project phases.

- Closely coordinate with project stakeholders to proactively plan and identify dependencies between material availability, on-site delivery, installation sequencing, and acceptance activities with respect to all construction activities and milestones.

- Proactively identify and escalate risks and develop practical recovery or mitigation plans before issues affect critical-path activities.

Investment Protection & Risk Management

- Act as a steward of significant company investment in telecom infrastructure and construction materials, ensuring materials are accounted for and received as expected. 

- Recognize and actively mitigate the financial, schedule, operational, and reputational consequences associated with material delays, shortages, loss, damage, improper storage, incorrect installation, deficient workmanship, or incomplete quality acceptance.

- Establish controls that avoid material loss, rework, schedule disruption, unnecessary expediting, and avoidable construction cost.

- Use data, field observations, inventory information, construction schedules, and quality trends to identify emerging risks before they become project impacts.

- Maintain both a project-level and organizational-level perspective when making decisions, recognizing that processes and standards established for this project may inform future large-scale data center delivery programs.

Reporting & Program Controls:

- Develop and maintain a clear reporting framework that communicates material readiness and quality acceptance status across all project phases.

- Provide concise, data-driven updates to project leadership and key stakeholders, clearly distinguishing current status, emerging risk, required decisions, and recommended actions.

- Create dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide actionable visibility into areas such as:

• Material required, ordered, received, staged, delivered, and installed
• Spare and emergency material inventory
• Estimated delivery date versus required on job date
• Long-lead and at-risk materials
• Inventory discrepancies, shortages, losses, and damaged materials
• Material readiness by construction phase and system
• Installation inspection and acceptance status
• Open quality deficiencies and corrective actions
• Aging or unresolved issues
• Upcoming schedule-driven material requirements
• Risks or issues requiring escalation

Core Functions

Planning & Execution: 

- Leads planning and execution of material readiness, asset management, and quality acceptance activities across a complex, multi-phase data center construction program. 

- Develops and maintains integrated plans spanning material requirements, procurement and lead times, warehouse staging, site delivery, installation, inspection, and acceptance to ensure critical infrastructure is available and completed in alignment with project schedule, cost, design, and quality requirements.

- Anticipates supply chain, logistics, installation, and quality risks and establishes appropriate contingencies and mitigation plans to minimize impact to critical construction milestones.

- Develops key metrics and reporting mechanisms to evaluate material readiness, inventory accuracy, installation quality, deficiency resolution, and process effectiveness, using results to drive sustained improvement across the program.

Collaboration & Partnership:

- Influences cross-functional stakeholders and external partners to establish alignment and accountability across design, procurement, logistics, construction, installation, and acceptance activities. 

- Develops strong partnerships with telecom contractors, colocation providers, material vendors, and internal stakeholders across telecom, design, schedule, cost, procurement, and construction management. 

-Establishes clear expectations, communication mechanisms, and escalation paths while actively incorporating technical and operational perspectives to drive successful project outcomes.

Problem Solving:

- Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts involving complex material, supply chain, installation, and quality issues, serving as an escalation point for conditions that may affect project cost, schedule, quality, or investment. 

-Uses data, field observations, technical requirements, inventory information, and construction schedules to identify root causes, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive timely resolution. Anticipates emerging risks and develops practical mitigation strategies that protect critical milestones while preventing recurrence across future phases.

Continuous Learning & Improvement:

- Maintains and evolves expertise in applicable design standards, material requirements, installation practices, codes, industry standards, supply chain dynamics, and quality methodologies.

- Applies lessons learned from construction execution, contractor performance, material issues, and quality trends to strengthen practices across subsequent phases and shares expertise with internal and external partners to improve overall execution.

- Designs, establishes, and continuously improves scalable programs, standards, controls, and workflows for material and asset management and installation quality acceptance.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Deep technical expertise in inventory and asset management, material logistics, quality assurance, and construction acceptance processes within data center, telecom, or mission-critical environments.
• Proven experience managing material readiness and quality assurance programs across complex construction projects and vendor-delivered programs, including procurement coordination, lead-time management, warehousing, delivery, installation, inspection, and acceptance.
• Strong understanding of data center or mission-critical design and construction processes, including the relationship between engineering requirements, material availability, installation sequencing, quality standards, and construction schedules.
• Ability to establish and manage scalable processes, controls, standards, and reporting mechanisms for asset management, material readiness, and installation quality across multiple concurrent project phases.
• Ability to manage complex contractor, vendor, and stakeholder relationships and drive accountability through technical, operational, and commercial influence.
• Skilled in interpreting construction drawings, specifications, bills of materials, installation standards, schedules, inventory records, and QA/QC documentation.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with demonstrated experience using data and metrics to manage complex pipelines, identify emerging risks, and communicate project status.
• Excellent communication skills across executive, engineering, construction, contractor, vendor, and field audiences, with the ability to lead through influence in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Supply Chain, Logistics, or related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications such as RCDD, PMP, CMQ/OE, or Six Sigma preferred.
• 5+ years of experience delivering asset management, material logistics, quality assurance, telecom, or mission-critical infrastructure programs in large-scale construction environments.

**This role is based in the El Paso, TX/Las Cruces, NM area and requires one to live in the area. Relocation assistance available. Only apply if you currently live in this area or are able to relocate permanently to the area. **