What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Engineering & Construction Administrative Coordinator position at Digital Realty?
Job Description
Position Title: Administrative Coordinator - Design, Engineering & Construction
Location: Dallas, TX; Boston, MA
Your role
The Administrative Coordinator provides essential operational, logistical, and administrative support to the Design, Engineering & Construction (DE&C) organization. Working closely with senior leaders across the Americas region, you will enable day-to-day team efficiency by coordinating communication, documentation, scheduling, and project support activities. This role is a key connector between DE&C and cross-functional partners, helping ensure projects stay on track and the team operates with structure and alignment.
What You’ll Do
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Position Title: Administrative Coordinator - Design, Engineering & Construction
Location: Dallas, TX; Boston, MA
Your role
The Administrative Coordinator provides essential operational, logistical, and administrative support to the Design, Engineering & Construction (DE&C) organization. Working closely with senior leaders across the Americas region, you will enable day-to-day team efficiency by coordinating communication, documentation, scheduling, and project support activities. This role is a key connector between DE&C and cross-functional partners, helping ensure projects stay on track and the team operates with structure and alignment.
What You’ll Do
- Assist with budget tracking, purchase orders, invoice processing, and vendor coordination.
- Maintain department files, SharePoint/Drive sites, and ensure accurate version control.
- Facilitate communication and information flow between DE&C and cross-functional partners (Real Estate, Operations, Procurement, etc.).
- Track key deadlines, deliverables, and action items for active projects.
- Prepare, update, and organize documentation, presentations, reports, and project tracking tools.
- Support onboarding of new DE&C employees, including access, equipment, and process orientation.
- Provide administrative support including scheduling, correspondence, and expense reporting.
- Complete ad hoc tasks that support operational efficiency and team needs.
- 3–5 years of administrative or coordination experience, ideally supporting engineering, construction, or technical teams.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Proficiency with MS Office and collaboration tools such as Teams, SharePoint, and Smartsheet.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High attention to detail and strong accountability.
- Ability to work independently and proactively identify issues and opportunities.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to support multiple stakeholders.
- Professional discretion when handling sensitive information.
- A customer-service mindset with a focus on enabling team efficiency and smooth operations.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.