Principal Data Center Facilities Development Manager

Job Description

Lead the build of world-class data centers in Saline, MI. As a Senior Data Center Construction Manager, you'll own large-scale, fast-paced projects from concept to commissioning-driving schedule, budget, quality, and safety with precision. You'll lead cross-functional teams of project managers, commissioning specialists, and contractors; de-risk complexity; and keep execution tight through rigorous planning and on-site leadership. Your expertise in technical design, vendor management, and construction delivery will raise the bar on efficiency and sustainability. Always looking ahead, you'll bring innovative methods and technologies to the field, ensuring our Saline builds power OCI's growth and set new standards across our global portfolio.

Key impact areas:

1. End-to-end delivery of complex data center projects at scale
2. Leadership of cross-functional and contractor teams with a safety-first culture
3. Schedule and cost control, risk management, and contract oversight
4. Collaboration with design, commissioning, and operations to ensure seamless handover
5. Adoption of cutting-edge construction practices and sustainable solutions to drive performance

This role is onsite in Saline, Michigan and not open to remote work.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:
-Provides strategic oversight and leadership for the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring the completion of projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
-Develops, maintains, and provides executive oversight for comprehensive project schedules, ensuring strategic coordination with colocation providers for the successful delivery of all project milestones.
-Leads and oversees the strategic creation, management, and optimization of project budgets, ensuring the efficient use of resources and cost-effective delivery of projects across the organization.
-Oversees the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers, ensuring high standards are maintained, documents are effectively managed and delivered, and all materials meet their intended purpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:
-Directs the implementation and oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
-Strategizes and leads the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, optimizing efforts throughout design, construction, and commissioning phases for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
-Conducts strategic site walks to ensure schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
-Provides executive oversight and strategic leadership for the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring that all systems are operational and meet design specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Leads the evaluation of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery across a portfolio of projects.
-Identifies critical gaps in risk identification and mitigation and drives organizational-wide initiatives to address these gaps.
-Develops and ensures the execution of comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure overall project success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Leads the role of primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective communication, addressing long-term strategic issues, and acting as the primary liaison for escalated or high-risk matters.
-Develops and maintains strategic relationships to support internal and external stakeholders at a high level, driving strategic initiatives and organizational goals.
-Oversees the selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Directs collaboration with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, addressing long-term strategic design issues.
-Provides high-level colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement, driving strategic initiatives and organizational goals.
-Oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and resolving high-stakes installation challenges.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $120,100 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC5

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