Senior Data Center Construction Manager

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Sr. Data Center Construction Manager to support field execution for hyperscale AI data center construction in Shackelford, Texas. This role supports safe, predictable, and high-quality construction delivery across assigned buildings, systems, areas, or discipline scopes.

Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.
• Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.
• Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.
• Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.
• Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.
• Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.
• Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.
• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity monitoring, and milestone execution.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.
• Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and escalate effectively.
• Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85–95% field/site engagement.
• Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.
• Experience in an owner’s representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.
• Familiarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.
• Experience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.
• Experience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.
• Familiarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.