Real Estate Design and Construction Manager

Job description

We are seeking a detail-oriented and innovative Real Estate Design and Construction Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large-scale projects from concept, execution, and close-out. You will have experience with building out the following type of spaces: Manufacturing, R&D, Office, Warehouse, Data Centers, Clean Labs, Industrial, Sales and Executive spaces. This role involves collaborating across departments, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering high-quality design and project management services to ensure programming requirements are met within budget and schedule that serve both the end-user/requestor and Real Estate objectives. You will be supporting projects in California as well as approximately 50 sites globally. Essential duties and responsibilities:Foster and maintain strong relationships within the organization: FE&M, IT, Legal, Procurement, Finance, EH&SFoster and maintain strong relationships with consultants and contractors: Architects, Engineering, Construction Manager, and General Contractors, etc.Ensure adherence of Global Construction Project Governance, safety protocols and programs related to Real Estate, Design and ConstructionOversee monthly job cost reports, budgeting, and forecasting modelsOversee and review consultant and contractor billings with project managers to assure accuracyReview project contracts and additional requests to understand the financial requirements on each projectProvide support during audits, including gathering documentation and responding to auditor inquiriesPerform ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects as assignedProvide early analysis on program scenariosEnsure project close-out procedures and documentation are completeEnsure Workplace Guidelines are followed and kept currentCarry out additional duties as required Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field • Extensive experience in management of projects with moderate size/complexity • Familiar with reporting tools: Microsoft Office, Oracle ERP, Archibus, MS Project, AutoCAD • Excellent communication and people skills • Ability to prioritize and multitask in a collaborative environment WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy. As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in. We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide. This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today. We’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level. Join us and let’s shape the future of data.