Principal Data Center Construction Manager

Oracle; Abilene (TX); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Data Center Construction Manager to lead field execution for a hyperscale AI data center in Shackelford County, Texas. This onsite role requires coordinating contractors, tracking progress, and ensuring safety and quality across multiple buildings.

The position emphasizes hands-on management, strong communication, and the ability to work with QA/QC, commissioning, and operations teams. Relocation packages are offered for eligible candidates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale projects.
• Experience in data centers or mission-critical facilities.
• Ability to read construction drawings, specifications, and schedules.
• Onsite with heavy field engagement (85–95%).
• Strong safety and quality management knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.
• Coordinate general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and readiness.
• Ensure activities align with schedules, milestones, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and resolve field risks, conflicts, and constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations and quality standards.
• Support turnover readiness for commissioning and startup.
• Track punch lists and milestone updates.
• Provide accurate daily field reports and issue logs.

Skills

Field coordination

Safety compliance

Communication

Contractor engagement

Reading blueprints

Project scheduling

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

PMP certification

Tools

Primavera P6

Primavera Cloud

MS Project

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Organization: OCI Hyperscale Data Center Infrastructure Delivery (DCID)

Role: Principal Data Center Construction Management (IC4)

Location: Shackelford County, Texas | Greater Abilene, Texas | Texas (DFW area) w/traveling up to 75%

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Data Center Construction Manager (IC4) to support field execution for a new hyperscale AI data center construction in Shackelford County, Texas. This role is responsible for supporting safe, predictable, and high-quality construction delivery across assigned buildings, systems, areas, or discipline scopes.

The Principal Data Center Construction Manager is a member of the OCI Data Center Infrastructure construction delivery team who supports daily construction activities by coordinating contractors, tracking field progress, helping resolve execution issues, reinforcing safety and quality expectations, and supporting turnover readiness for commissioning and startup.

This is a highly field-based role requiring strong site presence, direct contractor engagement, and hands‑on execution support. The role helps ensure daily construction activities align with project sequencing, milestone commitments, and OCI delivery standards.

This position is based in Shackelford County, Texas, approximately 20 miles from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene AI Data Center. We are seeking candidates who are local to the area or open to relocating to Abilene. Oracle offers relocation packages for eligible candidates.

We will consider candidates who are Texas Residents (local to the DFW area, preferred) and willing to travel over 75%.

Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.
• Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.
• Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.
• Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.
• Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.
• Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.
• Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.
• Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.
• Evaluates reliability of materials, properties and techniques used in production; plans, designs and develops electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, mechanical systems, equipment and packaging, optical systems and/or DSP systems.
• Responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating electronic, electro-mechanical or mechanical components, assemblies or integrated circuitry for hardware systems for the external market. Includes new design, as well as modification activities that results in significant product enhancement.
• Activities encompass design, analysis, testing and process development using engineering principles and methods.
• Technical disciplines may include electrical and logical design of printed circuit boards or integrated circuits; mechanical design of electronics enclosures or integrated circuit packaging; and embedded software/firmware design

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.
• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity monitoring, and milestone execution.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.
• Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and escalatate effectively.
• Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85–95% field/site engagement.
• Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment .

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.
• Experience in an owner’s representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.
• Familiarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.
• Experience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.
• Experience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.
• Familiarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
• Strong ability to drive contractor accountability while maintaining productive working relationships.
• Ability to contribute through field presence, direct communication, disciplined follow-up, and practical problem solving.
• Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PMI-SP, CCP, PSP, or Lean Six Sigma.

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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