VP, Global Data Centre Delivery

Volta; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Retirement/pension contributions

Health and wellbeing benefits

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Volta is seeking a VP, Global DC Delivery to own the delivery of AI factory design and construction across Europe and North America. You will build and lead a global delivery organisation spanning preconstruction, regional delivery teams, site directors, and a portfolio office with partner data centre deployments.

You will set the capital delivery model and drive cost, schedule, safety and quality across the program, reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer and board.

Qualifications

• Data centre experience across multiple regions and hyperscale projects.
• Experience leading front end planning and preconstruction at scale.
• Proven ability to build and run an organization from early stage.
• Engineering or construction background with strong mechanical/electrical knowledge.
• Experience managing billion-dollar capital programmes and complex contracts.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across countries with safety/quality focus.
• Willingness to travel regularly to sites in Europe and North America.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of design and construction across Volta's AI factories from planning to handover.
• Build and lead the global delivery organisation across Europe and North America.
• Run preconstruction to ensure settled design, budget, schedule and permits.
• Set the capital delivery model, contracting, procurement and schedule logic.
• Be accountable for cost, schedule, safety and quality with regular reporting.
• Direct design consultants, contractors and partners, building a scalable bench.
• Coordinate with design, controls, contracts and procurement to unify plans.
• Deliver self-build and partner data centre deployments with consistent standards.
• Represent Volta to authorities, utilities, landlords, investors, and partners.
• Establish standards, playbooks and lessons learned for predictability.

Skills

Data centre experience

Front end planning

Preconstruction

Organizational building

Capital programs

Contract management

Multi-country leadership

Job description

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Volta is building AI factories across Europe and North America at a scale and pace rarely seen in the market.

Our first 133MW AI factory in Norway will deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems, with more than 1GW of contracted power pipeline behind it and further sites already progressing through preconstruction in the Nordics and the United States.

The VP, Global DC Delivery will own how these sites are planned, built and handed over to operations, with accountability for cost, schedule, safety and quality across the global programme.

You will build and lead the delivery organisation across preconstruction, regional delivery, site project teams, the portfolio office and partner data centre deployments.

Working closely with Volta's Design and Engineering and functional teams, you will create one delivery model that can scale across multiple countries and projects.

We are looking for someone who has led hyperscale data centre delivery across multiple regions, managed major capital programmes and built the organisation, standards and playbook needed to deliver repeatedly at scale.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Own the delivery of design and construction across Volta's AI factories in Europe and North America, from front end planning through preconstruction, construction, commissioning and handover to operations
• Build and lead the global organisation: a preconstruction programme with project managers in Europe and the United States, regional delivery leads with site project directors and their construction, engineering, logistics, environmental and commissioning teams, a portfolio office and a third party development lead
• Run preconstruction so every site reaches construction with a settled design basis, a credible budget and schedule, a permitting path and a contract structure that fits the site
• Set the capital delivery model for each project, including contracting strategy, procurement approach, schedule logic and where modular and prefabricated methods will speed delivery
• Be accountable for cost, schedule, safety and quality outcomes across the programme, with clear, regular reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer, the executive team and the board through the portfolio office
• Select, direct and hold to account design consultants, general contractors, modular suppliers and specialist partners on each project, and build the partner bench Volta will need as the programme grows
• Work through Volta's matrix, drawing design from the design and engineering function and project controls, estimating, contracts, turn up and commissioning, safety and procurement from the functional leads, so every project has one team and one plan
• Deliver both Volta's self build sites and its deployments in partner data centres, adapting the approach to each without lowering the standard
• Represent Volta with planning authorities, utilities, landlords, partners and investors on design, permitting and construction matters
• Establish the standards, playbooks and lessons learned that make each project faster and more predictable than the last

WHAT YOU BRING

• Data centre experience is essential. You have led design and construction of large scale data centre programmes at hyperscale or the equivalent, across more than one region, and have owned delivery at this level rather than a single project or site
• Direct experience building and running front end planning and preconstruction across multiple sites and countries
• A record of building an organisation and its operating model from an early stage, including hiring and leading regional leads and site project directors
• An engineering or construction background with a working command of the mechanical and electrical systems that make a data centre run
• Control of capital programmes running into the billions and the complex contracts behind them, with a record of value engineering, change control and resolving disputes without losing the programme
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and external partners across several countries at once, and keeping safety and quality standards consistent between them
• The judgement to make decisions with incomplete information and without a large support structure, and the discipline to report plainly on progress, risk and cost to an executive team and board
• Willing and able to travel regularly to sites across Europe and North America

WHAT WE OFFER

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.

As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
• Retirement/pension contributions
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
• Generous number of vacation days each year

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

ACCESSIBILITY

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