Vice President, Construction

About the role

Reporting to the SVP, Data Center Delivery, this Vice President of Construction – USA will lead all construction functions across IREN’s West Texas and Oklahoma campuses, shepherding a rapidly growing multi-gigawatt pipeline from pre-construction through energization and closeout.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Construction Leadership: Own and oversee all construction functions across the US portfolio, ensuring successful execution of every phase from pre-construction and site enablement through vertical construction, commissioning, energization and closeout.
• Safety First: Set and enforce an uncompromising health, safety and environmental culture across all sites and contractors, owning leading and lagging indicators and driving toward zero harm on every campus.
• Team Leadership & Organizational Build-Out: Lead, mentor and scale a team of construction directors, senior project managers and site leaders, building the bench strength required to deliver a rapidly growing multi-gigawatt pipeline.
• Capital Expenditure Ownership: Hold teams accountable for campus capex budgets, ensure compliance with financial controls and approval policies, and partner with Cost Management and Finance on forecasting, contingency and capital efficiency.
• Contractor & Trade Partner Strategy: Direct the selection, contracting, mobilization and performance management of general contractors, EPCs and major trade partners, and build the long-term contractor relationships that secure capacity in a constrained market.
• Schedule Performance: Partner with Data Center Scheduling to drive the integrated master schedule, protect critical path and energization dates, and lead recovery when milestones are at risk.
• Quality & Constructability: Own construction quality standards and inspection regimes, and drive constructability and value engineering input into design with the Design & Engineering team.
• Commissioning & Handover: Ensure seamless integration between construction, commissioning and Operations, delivering facilities that transition to service without punch-list drag or reliability compromise.
• Power & Interconnection Coordination: Work closely with the Energy and Interconnection teams to sequence utility works, substation delivery and energization against the construction programme.
• Standards & Continuous Improvement: Institutionalize construction standards, playbooks and lessons learned across campuses to drive repeatability, speed and cost reduction as the portfolio scales.
• Executive & Board Reporting: Report construction status, risk and capital performance to the SVP – Data Center Delivery, executive leadership and the Board, with clear escalation and decision recommendations.
• Community & Stakeholder Engagement: Represent IREN with local authorities, permitting bodies and the communities hosting our campuses, supporting local workforce development and maintaining our social licence to operate.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education in a relevant field such as Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline; a Master’s degree, MBA or PMP certification is preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive construction leadership experience, including significant time delivering mission-critical facilities, hyperscale data centers, or large-scale industrial, energy or advanced manufacturing programs.
• Demonstrated accountability for a construction portfolio of $500M+ in annual capital spend, or for multiple concurrent campuses at gigawatt scale.
• Proven success leading a team of directors and senior managers across multiple geographies, including hiring and scaling a construction organization quickly.
• Deep owner-side or general contractor experience across the full delivery lifecycle: pre-construction, procurement, civil and vertical build, MEP installation, commissioning (L1–L5), integrated systems testing and handover.
• Outstanding health and safety leadership record, with the ability to set culture across a large contractor workforce.
• Strong commercial and contractual acumen, including experience with GMP, lump sum and cost-plus delivery models, and the confidence to arbitrate high-value change orders.
• Working knowledge of data center electrical and mechanical systems, and of how utility interconnection and energization drive capacity availability dates.
• Experience partnering with project controls, scheduling and cost management functions and holding them to a high standard.
• Highly proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, Outlook).
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with executive leadership, service providers and potentially members of the community.
• Thorough research and problem-solving skills, with sound judgement under significant time and capital pressure.
• Superior time management and multitasking skills with a strong sense of urgency.
• Passionate and confident individual with demonstrated organization, prioritization and critical thinking skills.
• Willingness to be based within commutable distance of West Texas operations and to travel regularly between the Texas and Oklahoma sites.

Benefits

• Compensation: Highly competitive base salary, annual performance incentives and long-term wealth-building equity programs.
• Health & Wellness: 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance for employees; 75% company-paid coverage for dependents. Company-paid life and disability insurance; voluntary life, critical illness and accident coverage available. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) available with the High-Deductible Health Plan. Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources.
• Financial Well-Being: 401(k) retirement plan with company match and financial wellness tools and resources.
• Time Off & Flexibility: Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• Growth & Development: Opportunities for advancement, internal mobility and training.
• Lifestyle & Culture: Company events and team-building activities.