Director, Utility Delivery & Coordination
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Cologix
Columbus, OH, US
Summary
Lead utility coordination and energization milestones across the data center portfolio to ensure timely project delivery. Serve as the primary liaison between internal teams, external utility providers, and contractors while managing risk registers and reporting to executive leadership.
Job Description
About Our Company:
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Cologix is a leading North America network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company. Our platform gives customers access to 45+ digital edge and Scalelogix℠ hyperscale edge data centers in 13 markets across the United States and Canada along with a carrier-dense ecosystem of 710+ networks, 360+ cloud providers, 35+ onramps and seven Internet exchanges. We provide our nearly 2,000 customers with direct access to our local operations teams, resulting in strong partnerships enabled by exceptional operational support and unparalleled customer service. Backed by one of the largest North American infrastructure funds, Cologix's experienced leadership team, certified staff and commitment to ESG initiatives help form a culture that values our people, our environment and our clients.
About the Position:
We are looking for a motivated and experienced Director of Utility Delivery & Coordination to be responsible for ensuring that utility energization milestones are achieved on schedule across the Cologix portfolio. Reporting directly to the Chief Energy Strategy Officer, this role serves as the primary liaison between internal project teams, external utility providers, and consultants and contractors, driving accountability, identifying risks, and ensuring projects are positioned for successful and timely energization.
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What you do daily:
- Lead utility coordination efforts across multiple data center development projects.
- Develop and maintain utility delivery plans, milestone schedules, and critical-path tracking.
- Integrate utility milestones into overall project development and construction schedules.
- Drive accountability for achieving utility-related commitments and energization dates.
- Identify schedule, permitting, engineering, procurement, and construction risks that could impact energization.
- Develop and implement mitigation plans to maintain project schedules.
- Evaluate utility scopes, infrastructure plans, and project assumptions for gaps and dependencies.
- Escalate critical issues and recommend corrective actions.
- Serve as the primary point of coordination between internal project teams, external utility providers, consultants and contactors, and other third parties.
- Partner with Development, Design, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams.
- Facilitate recurring meetings, both internal and external, and executive updates and reviews.
- Present project status and risk assessments to executive leadership and other stakeholders.
- Develop standardized utility coordination processes and reporting frameworks.
- Maintain portfolio-level milestone tracking and risk registers.
- Drive continuous improvement across utility delivery and project execution practices.
What Makes You a Good Fit
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Energy Systems, Business, or a related field.
- 8–15 years of construction project management experience, with at least 5 years in utility, mission-critical, or data center industries.
- Experience managing utility interconnections, substations, transmission, distribution, or large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of utility planning, construction, and energization processes, and project execution.
- Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with significant schedule and capital implications.
- Exceptional communication, organizational, and relationship-management skills.
- Experience presenting to executive leadership and influencing strategic decisions.
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NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Cologix is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance in applying for any of our open positions, please contact us at [email protected] or call 720-940-2551.
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Cologix’ data centers are ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 14001:2015 certified. These certifications demonstrate Cologix’s commitment to both information security and environmental stewardship. At Cologix, protecting information assets and minimizing environmental impacts are everyone’s responsibility.
Cologix employees are responsible for:
• Understanding and following Cologix’s information security, cybersecurity, privacy,
and environmental management policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensuring conformance with the requirements of both the Information Security
Management System (ISMS) and the Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Remaining vigilant and reporting any information security or environmental incidents,
vulnerabilities, risks, or non-conformities to the appropriate teams.
• Actively participating in Cologix’s efforts to maintain and improve information security
and environmental performance.
At Cologix, our mission is to cultivate a sustainable digital world that connects people, businesses and communities. We drive value by focusing on partnership, trust, mutual respect and a relentless pursuit of customer success.
Cologix provides network-neutral colocation, interconnection, cloud connectivity and data center services that enable enterprises, network providers, cloud service providers and technology innovators to connect, grow and thrive. With strategically located data centers across 13 key U.S. and Canadian markets, we help organizations improve performance, enhance reliability and accelerate business outcomes.
Our dedicated, experienced local teams provide industry-leading service, supporting you through every aspect of your digital infrastructure journey. Whether you're seeking colocation, cloud access, network interconnection, edge deployments or scalable data center solutions, Cologix is your trusted partner for building and maintaining critical digital infrastructure.
For a tour of one of our edge data centers visit cologix.com/contact/schedule-a-data-center-tour/ or email [email protected].
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Cologix réinvente la périphérie - en soutenant votre parcours d'infrastructure numérique avec une interconnexion robuste dans nos centres de données de périphérie et hyperscale. Nos équipes locales dévouées et expérimentées fournissent un service de pointe, vous soutenant à travers chaque aspect de votre parcours d'infrastructure numérique. Une seule connexion à notre écosystème renforce votre transformation numérique, en vous connectant aux solutions et aux partenaires dont vous avez besoin. Pour visiter l'un de nos centres de données à Ashburn, Calgary, Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montréal, New Jersey, Silicon Valley, Toronto ou Vancouver, visitez notre site web https://fr.cologix.com/contact/planifier une visite au centre de données ou envoyez un courriel à [email protected].
Founded
2010
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
At Cologix, our mission is to cultivate a sustainable digital world that connects people, businesses and communities. We drive value by focusing on partnership, trust, mutual respect and a relentless pursuit of customer success.
Cologix provides network-neutral colocation, interconnection, cloud connectivity and data center services that enable enterprises, network providers, cloud service providers and technology innovators to connect, grow and thrive. With strategically located data centers across 13 key U.S. and Canadian markets, we help organizations improve performance, enhance reliability and accelerate business outcomes.
Our dedicated, experienced local teams provide industry-leading service, supporting you through every aspect of your digital infrastructure journey. Whether you're seeking colocation, cloud access, network interconnection, edge deployments or scalable data center solutions, Cologix is your trusted partner for building and maintaining critical digital infrastructure.
For a tour of one of our edge data centers visit cologix.com/contact/schedule-a-data-center-tour/ or email [email protected].
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Cologix réinvente la périphérie - en soutenant votre parcours d'infrastructure numérique avec une interconnexion robuste dans nos centres de données de périphérie et hyperscale. Nos équipes locales dévouées et expérimentées fournissent un service de pointe, vous soutenant à travers chaque aspect de votre parcours d'infrastructure numérique. Une seule connexion à notre écosystème renforce votre transformation numérique, en vous connectant aux solutions et aux partenaires dont vous avez besoin. Pour visiter l'un de nos centres de données à Ashburn, Calgary, Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montréal, New Jersey, Silicon Valley, Toronto ou Vancouver, visitez notre site web https://fr.cologix.com/contact/planifier une visite au centre de données ou envoyez un courriel à [email protected].
Founded
2010
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado