Director of Data Center Construction - Site Development

SB Energy; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

SB Energy in the United States is seeking a Project Director to lead the successful delivery of hyperscale data center campuses, overseeing schedule, cost, safety, and quality. This role serves as the central facilitator across development, design, construction, and operations, ensuring alignment among internal teams, contractors, utilities, and customers.

The Director champions SB Energy’s culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while building

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-GW campus delivery by aligning cross-functional teams around shared goals and milestones.
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders to surface and resolve issues early.
• Translate strategy into executable plans for leadership and teams.
• Oversee site development, civil engineering, and campus infrastructure from due diligence to readiness.

Job description

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function

The Project Director is responsible for leading the successful delivery of hyperscale data center campuses (1GW–8GW+) through a highly collaborative, integrated approach.

This leader is not only accountable for outcomes—schedule, cost, safety, and quality— but also serves as the central facilitator across development, design, construction, and operations, ensuring alignment among diverse stakeholders including internal teams, general contractors, trade partners, utilities, and customers.

Success in this role is defined by the ability to provide leadership, create clarity, foster trust, and orchestrate execution across a complex ecosystem.

In addition to driving project execution, the Director champions SB Energy’s culture—leading with ownership, accountability, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous improvement while building and mentoring high performing teams.

The Director will also lead site development planning and execution, partnering with development, real estate, engineering, and utility teams to advance sites from due diligence through construction readiness. This includes evaluating site constraints, coordinating entitlement and permitting activities, and overseeing site preparation and enabling infrastructure to support phased data center campus delivery and future expansion.

Responsibilities

Program Leadership

• Lead multi-GW campus delivery by aligning cross-functional teams around shared goals, milestones, and constraints.
• Establish a culture of transparency, accountability, and proactive communication.
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders, ensuring issues are surfaced early and resolved collaboratively.
• Translate executive strategy into clear, executable plans that can be effectively presented to leadership and communicated across all teams.
• Ensure program provides incentive structure that ensures exceptional project outcomes with respect to cost, schedule, quality and overall execution.

Collaborative Execution & Team Integration

• Act as the integration point across development, engineering, procurement, construction and operations.
• Foster strong partnerships with general contractors and key trade partners, treating them as extensions of the core team.
• Lead structured coordination forums (e.g., multi-GC alignment meetings, pull-planning sessions, interface workshops) and present measurable progress against agreed milestones using current schedules, dashboards, and documented action tracking.
• Break down silos and ensure seamless information flow across disciplines.
• Integrate the customer to the greatest extent without.

Execution Strategy & Phasing

• Co-develop phased deployment strategies with internal and external partners (e.g., 100MW–300MW increments).
• Align construction sequencing with utility delivery, procurement timelines, and customer commitments.
• Facilitate collaborative schedule development (Last Planner System, pull planning, etc.)
• Drive shared ownership of critical path milestones, track planned versus actual progress, and present schedule performance, risks, and recovery plans to leadership and project stakeholders.

Site Development & Infrastructure Delivery

• Lead site development execution for large-scale data center campuses, including clearing, demolition where required, mass grading, earthwork, ground improvement, drainage, access roads, and underground utilities.
• Partners with development and real estate teams on site feasibility and due diligence, evaluating geotechnical conditions, topography, environmental constraints, floodplain exposure, access, easements, and utility availability to identify cost, schedule, and constructability risks.
• Oversee civil engineering and campus infrastructure planning, ensuring building pads, finished grades, stormwater systems, road networks, and utility corridors support phased construction and long-term campus expansion.
• Coordinate with development, environmental, and permitting teams to align zoning, entitlements, site development approvals, and permit conditions with early works and construction milestones.
• Coordinate with utility providers and internal infrastructure teams to confirm capacity, routing, connection points, and delivery schedules for power, water, wastewater, and telecommunications.
• Direct civil contractors and early works packages, establishing clear scopes, budgets,