Senior Data Center Construction & Facilities Leader

Oracle; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and matching

Paid time off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle US is seeking a Construction Project Manager to provide strategic oversight for data center construction with colocation providers, ensuring projects meet schedule, budget, and quality. You will lead budgeting, documentation, risk mitigation, and vendor contracts, coordinating design, commissioning, and startup phases to deliver reliable data center infrastructure.

This role emphasizes strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic oversight and leadership for the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring the completion of projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Develops, maintains, and provides executive oversight for comprehensive project schedules, ensuring strategic coordination with colocation providers for the successful delivery of all project milestones.
• Leads and oversees the strategic creation, management, and optimization of project budgets, ensuring the efficient use of resources and cost-effective delivery of projects across the organization.
• Oversees the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers, ensuring high standards are maintained, documents are effectively managed and delivered, and all materials meet their intended purpose.
• Directs the implementation and oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
• Strategizes and leads the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, optimizing efforts throughout design, construction, and commissioning phases for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
• Conducts strategic site walks to ensure schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provides executive oversight and strategic leadership for the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring that all systems are operational and meet design specifications.
• Leads the evaluation of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery across a portfolio of projects.
• Identifies critical gaps in risk identification and mitigation and drives organizational-wide initiatives to address these gaps.
• Develops and ensures the execution of comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure overall project success.
• Leads the role of primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective communication, addressing long-term strategic issues, and acting as the primary liaison for escalated or high-risk matters.
• Develops and maintains strategic relationships to support internal and external stakeholders at a high level, driving strategic initiatives and organizational goals.
• Oversees the selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance.
• Directs collaboration with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, addressing long-term strategic design issues.
• Provides high-level colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement, driving strategic initiatives and organizational goals.
• Oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and resolving high-stakes installation challenges.
• Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements.
• Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
• Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
• Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).
• Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
• Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions.
• 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.

Job description

Oracle US is seeking a Construction Project Manager to provide strategic oversight for data center construction with colocation providers, ensuring projects meet schedule, budget, and quality. You will lead budgeting, documentation, risk mitigation, and vendor contracts, coordinating design, commissioning, and startup phases to deliver reliable data center infrastructure.

This role emphasizes strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.