EPC Manager

Company Overview

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.

Position Summary

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to be part of a cutting-edge team driving next-generation data center infrastructure and an opportunity to work with leading technology providers and industry pioneers. NorthMark Strategies delivers its data center program through third-party EPC partners, with major mechanical and electrical infrastructure procured directly through an OFCI model. The EPC Manager is the commercial owner of the post-award EPC relationship on behalf of NorthMark Strategies: 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. This role reports to the Vice President of Grey Space Procurement.

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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Additional Information:

• Primary location for this role is in Las Colinas at 6565 N. McArthur Blvd, Irving, TX 75039
• Travel expectation – 10-20%