VP, Hyperscale Delivery
DC BLOX · Atlanta, GA · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
Essential Duties
- Lead the Construction organization responsible for delivering multiple simultaneous hyperscale campuses exceeding 120MW each.
- Develop organizational capability, succession planning, and leadership development for Regional Directors, Construction Directors and Project Leadership Teams.
- Establish the operating model, governance structure, and performance standards for construction delivery across all hyperscale projects.
- Drive a culture centered around safety, execution excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Own executive responsibility for delivery of all hyperscale construction programs from Notice to Proceed through Final Completion and Operations turnover.
- Maintain executive oversight of schedule, cost, quality, safety, commissioning readiness, customer commitments, and operational acceptance.
- Balance resources across multiple campuses and regions while maintaining predictable delivery performance.
- Identify portfolio risks early and implement mitigation strategies before impacting customer commitments.
Strategic Planning
- Partner with Executive Leadership to establish long-term construction strategy supporting company growth objectives.
- Participate in development planning to ensure construction execution aligns with market expansion plans.
- Provide executive input into capital planning, annual budgeting, staffing forecasts, and execution capacity.
- Support the site due diligence team’s activities for acquisitions, new markets, and power procurement.
Contractor & Supply Chain Leadership
- Establish executive relationships with strategic General Contractors capable of supporting national hyperscale deployment.
- Develop preferred partner strategies across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and specialty trades.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain and Engineering to develop procurement strategies for long-lead equipment and prefabricated solutions.
- Drive contractor performance management through executive scorecards and continuous evaluation.
Customer Leadership
- Serve as executive construction representative for hyperscale customers throughout project execution.
- Lead executive-level project reviews and strategic customer meetings.
- Ensure customer commitments are translated into executable delivery plans.
- Support commercial pursuits by providing construction expertise during customer diligence.
Operational Excellence
- Develop enterprise standards for construction execution across all regions.
- Implement standardized project controls, reporting, scheduling, forecasting, and risk management processes.
- Champion Lean Construction methodologies, prefabrication, modularization, and digital delivery tools.
- Establish KPIs that measure portfolio health, execution predictability, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Financial Accountability
- Responsible for capital deployment across multiple billion-dollar construction programs.
- Ensure accurate forecasting of project costs, cash flow, staffing requirements, and schedule performance.
- Identify opportunities for value engineering and lifecycle cost optimization without compromising reliability.
- Participate in contract strategy, major negotiations, and executive commercial decisions.