Senior Data Center Construction Manager - Saline, MI

About the role

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Data Center Infrastructure Construction team and help deliver one of the most ambitious mission-critical infrastructure programs in the country. This role will support a large-scale Michigan data center project representing approximately 1GW of capacity, helping build the next generation of cloud and AI infrastructure at speed, scale, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Construction Project Management – Planning and Execution Lead and support onsite construction activities managed by colocation providers, helping ensure work is completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and to Oracle quality standards.

• Develop, review, and maintain project schedules, milestone trackers, look-ahead plans, action logs, risk registers, and project documentation.

• Cookordination with colocation providers, contractors, vendors, and internal teams to support timely milestone delivery across construction, commissioning, and turnover phases.

• Support budget tracking, resource planning, change management, and field issue resolution to help maintain cost-effective project execution.

• Create, review, and maintain technical and project documentation, including design review comments, commissioning documentation, issue papers, meeting notes, action trackers, and problem-solving summaries.

• Construction Project Management – Integration and Quality Assurance Implement and support quality control processes to ensure construction activities meet approved design documents, specifications, Oracle requirements, and applicable industry standards.

• Coordinate tenant fit-out activities and ensure alignment across design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness workstreams.

• Conduct detailed site walks to monitor progress, schedule alignment, coordination, safety, workmanship, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.

• Support startup, commissioning, integrated systems testing, turnover, and closeout activities for major data center infrastructure systems.

• Oversee and coordinate field execution related to power, cooling, controls, networking, structured cabling, and other critical infrastructure systems.

• Risk and Problem Management Evaluate construction delivery risks related to schedule, quality, coordination, procurement, design readiness, commissioning readiness, and turnover.

• Identify gaps in risk identification, mitigation planning, and field execution, then develop practical solutions to address those gaps.

• Escalate unresolved or critical issues with clear analysis, options, recommendations, and potential project impacts.

• Drive closure of open issues by clarifying ownership, required decisions, due dates, and dependencies.

• Stakeholder and Vendor Management Serve as a primary onsite point of contact between Oracle and colocation providers for assigned construction workstreams.

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, colocation providers, general contractors, trade partners, design consultants, commissioning agents, and vendors.

• Support vendor, contractor, and supplier coordination to ensure contract compliance, performance, quality, schedule alignment, and issue resolution.

• Provide input on colocation provider and contractor performance to support continuous improvement across delivery execution.

• Design Coordination and Improvement Collaborate with design teams to ensure construction activities align with approved design plans, specifications, and project requirements.

• Identify routine design, constructability, coordination, and field implementation issues, then drive resolution with the appropriate stakeholders.

• Support process improvements that increase construction delivery efficiency, quality, documentation consistency, and stakeholder alignment.

• Capture lessons learned and help translate them into repeatable practices for future project execution.

Qualifications

• 11 years of experience in construction project management, construction management, project engineering, field engineering, owner’s representation, infrastructure delivery, or equivalent experience; OR Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field and 7 years of experience in construction project management, construction management, project engineering, field engineering, owner’s representation, infrastructure delivery, or equivalent experience; OR Master’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field and 5 years of relevant experience; OR Doctorate in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field and 3 years of relevant experience.

• Experience supporting complex construction projects with multiple stakeholders, contractors, disciplines, schedules, and delivery risks.

• Experience with construction execution, schedule coordination, quality assurance, design coordination, change management, commissioning, turnover, or closeout processes.

• Ability to work onsite full time in Saline, MI.

• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced field environment and drive accountability without direct authority.