Special Projects Manager- Data Centers (Shackelford County, TX)

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned remediation, retrofit, and special facilities projects from concept through design, permitting, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
• Manage project setup, including budget development, schedule creation, scope alignment, execution planning, and oversight through completion.
• Lead all phases of project delivery including pre-construction, design development, permitting and entitlements, competitive bid processes, contractor selection, construction oversight, commissioning, and turnover.
• Manage project managers, coordinators, external project resources, or assigned delivery personnel supporting remediation and retrofit execution.
• Act as the primary leader coordinating internal stakeholders across Facilities Operations, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Procurement, Finance, Security, and site leadership.
• Translate requirements from internal subject matter experts and operations teams into executable project scopes that preserve long-term operational sustainability.
• Lead design coordination across internal teams, design-build partners, consultants, and contractors to ensure technical and operational requirements are incorporated into the project.
• Oversee physical construction activities on site, including quality, safety, contractor performance, sequencing, and adherence to site work rules.
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, risk, staffing, and partner performance while ensuring work is delivered in alignment with Oracle standards and campus operating constraints.
• Carefully coordinate OFCI equipment planning, logistics, and integration into project delivery.
• Lead commissioning and turnover activities for critical systems integration across existing data center environments and remediation scopes.
• Ensure complete and accurate turnover documentation is delivered to Operations, including closeout records, drawings, commissioning results, and other required project artifacts.
• Partner closely with site operations teams to coordinate remediation work with ongoing maintenance, operations, and customer-impact considerations in live facilities.
• Drive day-to-day project decisions to conclusion, escalating risk, business-impact, or resource concerns when appropriate.
• Own project resource allocation, workflow prioritization, and team utilization across assigned remediation programs.
• Support financial governance through forecasting, variance reporting, contractor billing review, approval packages, and coordination with finance partners.
• Lead lessons learned and continuous improvement efforts to strengthen future remediation and retrofit execution across the portfolio.
• Support hiring, onboarding, coaching, and development of project delivery staff aligned to the remediation program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project management, construction management, remediation, retrofit delivery, or technical infrastructure programs.
• 2+ years of experience leading project teams, project engineers, coordinators, or third-party project resources.
• Strong experience in complex and technical construction environments, ideally including mission-critical, industrial, utility, healthcare, semiconductor, or data center facilities.
• Experience delivering projects in live operational environments where safety, continuity, and coordination with ongoing operations are critical.
• Strong understanding of both CSA and MEP scopes, with the ability to coordinate technical and operational stakeholders through construction and turnover.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or similar field preferred; equivalent experience also valued.
• Strong project and people leadership with the ability to guide teams through complex remediation and retrofit work from concept through closeout.
• Strong budget, schedule, staffing, and contractor management capability.
• Strong communication and stakeholder coordination across technical, operational, and business functions.
• Ability to balance execution speed, safety, operational continuity, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving in dynamic project environments.
• Strong quality mindset with disciplined follow-through on documentation, turnover, and project controls.
• Ability to lead through influence while also reinforcing accountability, clarity, and execution discipline across project teams.