Senior Manager, Data Center Construction
Afton, United States · On-site · Full-time
- Posted 1w ago
- From Galaxy Digital’s careers page
- Location
- Afton, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Department
- Project and Program Management
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About the role
Who We Are:
Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, growing the economy that runs on code. Galaxy delivers the onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Anchored by its Helios campus in Texas, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity.
What We Value:
- Seek Excellence.
- Be Selective To Be Effective.
- Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
- Disagree Transparently.
- Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
- Build Dream Teams.
Who You Are:
You are a hands-on construction leader who has delivered large-scale, mission-critical data center or comparable infrastructure from start of construction through commissioning and turnover. You know what it takes to run a major building on a live campus: sequencing trades, protecting the schedule, and keeping safety and quality from becoming trade-offs. You lead teams from the front, hold contractors and partners to a high standard, and raise issues early and honestly.
What You'll Do:
As Senior Manager, Data Center Construction at Galaxy's Helios campus in Afton, TX, you will be Galaxy's accountable leader for construction of a large-scale data center building on the campus. You will report to the VP, Campus Construction Manager and work alongside peer Senior Managers who each own a building or scope. You will own your building from preconstruction handoff through commissioning and turnover to operations, and you will lead the on-site Galaxy team and contractor relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own Data Center Facility Delivery: Serve as the single point of accountability for construction of a large-scale data center facility, from GMP handoff through energization, Level 1-5 commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and turnover to operations.
- Manage Schedule and Progress: Own the building schedule, track progress against baseline, identify critical-path threats early, and direct recovery and mitigation plans.
- Manage Project Risk and Contingency: Maintain a quantified risk register covering schedule, cost, supply chain, labor, weather, and trade-interface risks. Control owner contingency drawdown and drive mitigation.
- Drive Safety Culture: Set and enforce Galaxy's safety standards at the building level. Partner with Galaxy EHS and contractor safety leadership to sustain a zero-incident environment.
- Oversee Contractors and Trade Partners: Manage the relationship with the general contractor and key trade partners, ensuring alignment on milestones, quality, safety, staffing, and commercial performance.
- Control Cost and Change: Oversee pay applications, change orders, forecasts, and budget tracking under the GMP. Enforce disciplined change management and provide accurate cost reporting.
- Lead Integrated Project Controls and Forecasting: Own the facility's integrated cost, schedule, and cash flow forecast on a monthly cycle, validating GC-reported progress against independent percent-complete and earned value analysis.
- Administer the Commercial Framework: Administer the GMP agreement and owner contracts, including notices, allowances, buyout and savings, claims, backcharges, retainage, and lien waivers, partnering with Legal as needed.
- Manage OFCI Integration: Work with Pre-Construction and procurement and logistics teams to ensure owner-furnished equipment (UPS, generators, chillers, switchgear) arrives, is set, and is installed without impacting the schedule.
- Drive Utility and Energization Readiness: Coordinate with the serving utility, interconnect and substation teams, and Galaxy's power development group to align permanent power availability and energization sequencing with construction and commissioning milestones.
- Lead Commissioning and Turnover: Partner with the on-site commissioning manager, 3rd party Cx agent, and operations teams to ensure systematic testing, closeout, and clean turnover.
- Manage Customer Delivery Commitments: Serve as construction lead for customer-facing delivery milestones, including ready-for-service dates.
- Ensure Quality: Enforce Galaxy's QA/QC standards on your building and escalate systemic quality issues with contractors and design partners.
- Coordinate Across the Campus: Resolve cross-building conflicts in resources, laydown, site logistics, access, utilities, and sequencing.
- Advance Lean and Prefabrication: Apply Galaxy's modularization, prefabrication, and lean delivery initiatives, and capture lessons learned.
- Manage Regulatory and Inspection Requirements: Work with local authorities, inspectors, utilities, and consultants to ensure code and permit compliance.
- Report to Leadership: Provide frequent, candid status updates to senior leadership and communicate building status, risks, and forecasts to internal stakeholders.
What We're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience delivering large-scale mission-critical projects, with at least 3 years in a senior role leading a project or building team through construction.
- Demonstrated success delivering a data center, or comparable mission-critical facility, from start of construction through commissioning and turnover.
- Working knowledge of construction delivery models (including GMP), risk management, and contractor oversight.
- Technical fluency across MEP, commissioning, civil, and structural systems.
- Experience integrating OFCI equipment and supporting commissioning.
- Strong command of cost control, change management, and schedule analysis.
- Familiarity with Procore, Primavera P6, Bluebeam, and SharePoint.
- Full-time, on-site presence at Helios (Afton, TX).
What You Bring:
- A track record of leading and developing high-performing construction teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.
- Sound judgment under pressure and a bias toward early, honest escalation.
- A commitment to safety, quality, and executional excellence.
- A passion for building world-class infrastructure that supports the growth of the digital economy.
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Paid Time Off
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
- Company Paid Holidays (11)
- 3% 401(k) company contribution
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Free daily snacks and weekly meal in-office
- Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
- Employee Resource Groups
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About Galaxy Digital
Digital assets and AI infrastructureGalaxy is a digital assets and AI infrastructure company working across digital asset markets, asset management, and data centers.
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