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The position is intended to create consistency across TFO projects while maintaining project-specific assumptions, exclusions, risks, allowances, and commercial requirements.\nThe position ultimately ensures each TFO project enters execution with a well-defined scope, defensible budget, realistic schedule, clear contracting strategy, and documented ownership of open items.\nKey Responsibilities\nTFO Front-End Planning & Scope Definition\nLead the initial planning and definition of TFO scope from tenant requirements, work letters, technical criteria, design documents, and stakeholder input.\nEstablish a clear scope boundary between base building, TFO, tenant-furnished work, owner-furnished equipment, and other enabling work.\nDevelop project assumptions, exclusions, qualifications, allowances, contingencies, and risk registers appropriate to the level of design maturity.\nIdentify scope gaps, overlaps, unresolved decisions, and long-lead constraints before turnover to the campus execution team.\nCreate and maintain standardized TFO preconstruction deliverables, templates, and handoff requirements.\nBudgeting, Basis of Estimate & Commercial Development\nDevelop and maintain initial TFO budgets using available design information, tenant criteria, benchmark data, contractor input, and market intelligence.\nPrepare project-specific Basis of Estimate documentation that clearly explains scope, pricing basis, assumptions, exclusions, allowances, escalation, and contingency.\nSupport preparation of the Basis of Contract and related commercial exhibits used to establish execution expectations.\nCoordinate estimate reviews, reconciliations, value engineering, and budget updates as design and tenant requirements evolve.\nEnsure budgets are organized using Applied Digital cost structures and are suitable for internal review, tenant submission, and transition to project cost control.\nProcurement, Contracting & Long-Lead Strategy\nPartner with Procurement, Design, and Construction to identify early-release packages and long-lead equipment or material requirements.\nSupport development of RFPs, bid forms, scope sheets, alternates, clarifications, and commercial leveling summaries.\nEvaluate contractor and trade partner proposals for scope completeness, qualifications, exclusions, schedule alignment, and commercial risk.\nSupport contractor selection, negotiation, and development of contract-ready scope documentation.\nCoordinate required-on-job dates and procurement milestones with the preliminary TFO schedule.\nSchedule & Execution Planning\nDevelop preliminary milestone schedules and execution plans that align design, procurement, construction, commissioning, tenant deployment, early access, and Ready for Service requirements.\nValidate schedule assumptions with campus teams, contractors, design partners, Procurement, and Commissioning.\nIdentify critical decisions, release dates, design deliverables, and constraints that could affect TFO execution.\nHelp establish phasing, sequencing, logistics, workforce, testing, and turnover assumptions before construction begins.\nCampus Handoff & Portfolio Standardization\nLead a structured handoff to the assigned TFO Project Manager and TFO Superintendent before field execution begins.\nTransfer current budgets, schedule baselines, contract documents, open decisions, risks, procurement status, tenant commitments, and key assumptions.\nRemain available during early execution to clarify the commercial and technical basis of the project without replacing campus project ownership.\nCapture lessons learned and actual outcomes to improve future TFO budgets, contract strategies, templates, and execution plans.\nPromote consistent TFO practices while ensuring each estimate and contract package remains specific to its project and location.\nRole Boundaries\nThis role leads TFO preconstruction and initial commercialization but does not own daily field supervision, trade coordination, or 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