Principal Data Center Construction Manager Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead field execution across multiple buildings, campus zones, systems, or major discipline scopes throughout all phases of construction.
• Provide direct leadership, coaching, and oversight for Construction Managers responsible for assigned buildings and trade disciplines.
• Drive safe, predictable, and high-quality execution while reinforcing Oracle's culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with General Contractors, EPC partners, subcontractors, trade partners, and contractor leadership to ensure alignment on execution strategy and project priorities.
• Lead daily field coordination meetings, execution planning, constraint resolution, and schedule recovery efforts.
• Monitor construction progress, productivity, manpower, workface planning, logistics, sequencing, and milestone achievement across assigned areas.
• Identify execution risks, schedule impacts, resource constraints, and field conflicts while developing proactive mitigation and recovery plans.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, commissioning milestones, turnover plans, and operational readiness objectives.
• Drive field accountability for quality, installation standards, inspection readiness, and reduction of rework.
• Partner closely with QA/QC, commissioning, engineering, controls, logistics, scheduling, safety, procurement, and operations teams to support integrated project delivery.
• Oversee turnover planning, punch-list completion, system readiness, and successful transition to commissioning and startup.
• Support executive project reporting by providing accurate field status, milestone forecasts, productivity updates, risk assessments, and recovery recommendations.
• Resolve complex field execution issues requiring cross-functional coordination and executive-level decision-making.
• Promote consistent construction management practices, mentoring, and leadership development across the OCI construction organization.
• Maintain a highly visible field presence through daily site walks, contractor engagement, and active leadership of construction activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent construction leadership experience.
• 10+ years of experience managing construction execution on large-scale, complex mission-critical or industrial construction projects.
• 5+ years of experience leading Construction Managers, Superintendents, field engineers, or multidisciplinary construction teams.
• Demonstrated experience delivering hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, industrial, energy, pharmaceutical, or other technically complex infrastructure projects.
• Extensive knowledge of construction sequencing, contractor management, workface planning, productivity analysis, schedule execution, and field coordination.
• Proven ability to lead multiple contractors and stakeholders within fast-track, multi-billion-dollar construction environments.
• Strong understanding of commissioning-driven delivery, phased turnover, startup planning, and operational readiness.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, commissioning plans, turnover documentation, and contractor execution plans.
• Demonstrated experience identifying project risks, resolving complex construction issues, and driving schedule recovery initiatives.
• Strong understanding of construction safety programs, quality management systems, field inspections, and owner-side construction governance.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 90–95% field engagement.
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, rapidly evolving, high-growth construction environments while maintaining strong ownership and accountability.