Principal Data Center Construction Manager

Oracle•Abilene, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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%.

Requirements

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 escalate 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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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

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
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
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
Relocation packages for eligible candidates