Director, Data Center Construction

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Director of Data Center Infrastructure / Construction to help deliver a ~1GW-scale AI infrastructure program in Saline, MI. This is a rare opportunity to lead construction execution at extraordinary scale, driving field productivity, contractor performance, sequencing, logistics, recovery planning, installation quality, and construction turnover readiness across one of OCI’s most critical data center campuses. The ideal leader thrives in fast-moving, mission-critical environments and can turn complex field conditions into clear priorities, accountable execution, and predictable progress across general contractors, subcontractors, project teams, commissioning partners, and senior stakeholders. This role will be instrumental in keeping trades aligned, removing execution blockers, validating recovery plans, and ensuring construction progress supports downstream commissioning, startup, and operational readiness. This position may be based remote within the U.S. with up to 50% travel to Saline, MI , or onsite/hybrid in Saline, MI .

Key Responsibilities

• Lead construction execution for a ~1GW-scale AI infrastructure program in Saline, MI.
• Drive safe, predictable field execution across active data center construction areas.
• Manage general contractor and subcontractor performance, accountability, and execution standards.
• Drive field productivity, trade flow, workface planning, sequencing alignment, and logistics coordination.
• Identify construction execution risks early and remove blockers that could impact schedule, quality, safety, or turnover readiness.
• Lead recovery planning and execution for schedule, manpower, logistics, sequencing, installation quality, or turnover risks.
• Partner with project controls to ensure schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, and field reporting reflect actual site conditions.
• Coordinate with QA/QC, commissioning, E2E capacity delivery, operations, supply chain, vendors, and leadership stakeholders to support downstream readiness.
• Validate site conditions through field walks, contractor reviews, execution reviews, logistics reviews, and recovery alignment sessions.
• Ensure construction turnover supports commissioning, startup, operational readiness, and capacity delivery milestones.

• Escalate critical risks with clear impact assessments, mitigation options, ownership, and decision needs.
  

Additional Duties

• Develop and maintain construction execution plans, site sequencing strategies, logistics plans, and workface planning assessments.
• Prepare recovery plans, contractor performance reviews, field productivity updates, and construction turnover readiness reports.
• Support construction manpower strategy, trade stacking reviews, labor planning, and contractor resource alignment.
• Coordinate material readiness, access planning, laydown strategy, site logistics, and trade movement across active work areas.
• Support installation quality alignment with construction, QA/QC, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Lead construction-to-commissioning handoff planning to reduce rework and improve startup flow.
• Monitor KPIs including installation productivity, schedule adherence, field congestion, trade flow effectiveness, rework reduction, contractor performance, recovery execution, turnover readiness, safety, and quality.
• Lead execution reviews, contractor accountability meetings, site coordination discussions, and recovery planning forums.
• Ensure field teams understand priorities, constraints, ownership, sequencing expectations, and delivery commitments.
• Document lessons learned and implement repeatable construction execution standards across the program.
• Identify recurring field execution gaps and drive continuous improvement in planning, coordination, handoffs, and accountability.
• Foster a culture of safety, quality, urgency, transparency, accountability, and field-informed decision-making across construction teams and delivery partners.