Principal Data Center Construction Lead

Oracle•Abilene, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Data Center Construction Lead to provide senior field leadership for the delivery of hyperscale AI data center construction in Shackelford, Texas. This role serves as one of the senior construction leaders on-site, responsible for leading Construction Managers and driving safe, predictable, and high-quality execution across multiple buildings, systems, or major discipline scopes while ensuring alignment with OCI's aggressive delivery milestones. The Principal Data Center Construction Manager Lead provides strategic field leadership by directing daily construction execution, coordinating multiple contractor organizations, removing execution barriers, driving schedule performance, and ensuring construction activities are executed in accordance with Oracle's safety, quality, commissioning, and operational readiness standards. This position serves as the primary escalation point for complex field issues and partners closely with project leadership, design, commissioning, operations, and contractor leadership to successfully deliver world-class AI infrastructure. This is a highly visible field leadership position requiring exceptional construction management experience, strong executive communication skills, and the ability to lead large multidisciplinary teams through fast-paced hyperscale construction programs.

Requirements

Exceptional construction management experience
Strong executive communication skills

Responsibilities

Provide senior field leadership for the delivery of hyperscale AI data center construction.
Lead Construction Managers and drive safe, predictable, and high-quality execution.
Ensure alignment with OCI's aggressive delivery milestones.
Direct daily construction execution.
Coordinate multiple contractor organizations.
Remove execution barriers.
Drive schedule performance.
Ensure construction activities are executed in accordance with Oracle's safety, quality, commissioning, and operational readiness standards.
Serve as the primary escalation point for complex field issues.
Partner closely with project leadership, design, commissioning, operations, and contractor leadership to successfully deliver world-class AI infrastructure.
Lead large multidisciplinary teams through fast-paced hyperscale construction programs.