EPC Infrastructure Manager
NorthMark · Dallas
NorthMark Strategies is a leading investment firm, combining capital, innovation, and engineering to drive long-term value. From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk-taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world-class computing capacity to create shareholder value.
Our company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.
At NorthMark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.
The Position
The EPC Infrastructure Manager is the commercial owner of the post-award EPC relationship on behalf of NorthMark Strategies for our OFCI Data Center build. Once the EPC contract is signed, this role runs the day-to-day contractual and commercial execution through construction closeout.
This is a senior individual contributor role sitting inside Grey Space Procurement, embedded with construction, engineering, and the Grey Space category buyers. The role does not source or negotiate the initial EPC award. It owns everything that happens after — change management, progress payments, claims, back-charges, warranty, and the commercial interface where owner-furnished mechanical and electrical equipment meets EPC-installed scope.
Success in this role protects schedule, contains cost growth, and keeps the OFCI-to-EPC handoff clean across both mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
EPC contract administration
- Own day-to-day administration of the executed EPC agreement through construction and closeout.
- Manage the change order process end-to-end: review, negotiate, and disposition contractor-initiated change requests and owner-directed changes.
- Track and enforce contractual obligations covering scope, schedule, deliverables, insurance, bonding, safety, and reporting.
- Administer progress payments: review pay applications against schedule of values, verify earned value and stored materials, coordinate lien waivers, and manage retention release.
- Manage claims, disputes, back-charges, and liquidated damages events; drive resolution and document positions for the record.
OFCI-to-EPC commercial interface (mechanical and electrical)
- Serve as the commercial point of contact between owner-furnished mechanical and electrical equipment purchases and EPC installation scope.
- Coordinate with Grey Space category buyers to align OFCI delivery milestones with the EPC construction sequence; escalate commercial risk when equipment slippage threatens the EPC schedule.
- Manage OS&D, warranty transition, and responsibility allocation between OEMs, freight carriers, the EPC, and the owner across both disciplines.
- Track and enforce EPC responsibilities for receiving, offloading, storage, and installation of OFCI equipment.
Commercial risk management
- Maintain the current contractual position: exposure, forecasted cost-to-complete, pending changes, and open commercial risks.
- Partner with project controls, finance, and legal on cost reporting, forecasting, and escalation of material commercial risks.
- Review RFIs, submittals, and design changes for commercial impact and flag scope creep before it becomes a claim.
Closeout and warranty
- Drive contractual closeout: punchlist completion, final payment, retention release, warranty documentation, and lien resolution.
- Coordinate warranty transition from EPC and OEMs to [Company]'s operations team; ensure warranty terms are captured and enforceable.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in EPC contract administration, construction contracts management, or owner's commercial management on capital projects.
- Direct post-award ownership of EPC, EPCM, design-build, or comparable construction agreements at the $50M+ package level.
- Working knowledge of both mechanical and electrical infrastructure sufficient to hold commercial ground with contractors and design engineers on scope, changes, and claims.
- Demonstrated experience managing change orders, claims, and back-charges through resolution.
- Working command of progress billing mechanics: schedule of values, stored materials, retention, lien waivers, and earned value.
- Strong contractual literacy — able to read, interpret, and administer EPC agreements, general conditions, exhibits, and change management provisions without leaning on legal for routine execution.
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, finance, business, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Data center, mission-critical facility, semiconductor, or other heavy industrial construction experience.
- Direct experience with OFCI/CFCI delivery models and owner-furnished equipment interface management.
- Familiarity with major data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure: chillers, cooling towers, air handling, generators, medium- and low-voltage switchgear, UPS, and paralleling gear.
- Experience with Procore, Kahua, e-Builder, or comparable construction management platforms.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 or comparable ERP experience for PO and payment interface.
- CCM (Certified Construction Manager), PMP, or comparable credential.
It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Benefits & Perks:
Company-Paid Lunch Stipend: Lunch is provided via GrubHub
Company-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%
Optional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more.
Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
NORTHMARK STRATEGIES LLC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. THE COMPANY'S POLICY IS NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, MARITAL STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND GENETIC INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER BASIS PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE FIRM ALSO PROHIBITS HARASSMENT OF APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES BASED ON ANY OF THESE PROTECTED CATEGORIES.