Senior Site Deployment Manager E2E - Data Center Facilities
About The Position
This is an Onsite position in Nashville, TN - relocation assistance is available. As Senior Site Deployment Manager, Site Deployment, you will lead a team responsible for OCI data center site deployment execution, including new builds, expansions, retrofits, rack deployment, infrastructure readiness, and operational transition activities. This manager-level role converts deployment requirements, portfolio priorities, and site readiness milestones into coordinated execution plans that enable safe, predictable, and operationally ready capacity delivery. You will manage deployment managers, project coordinators, and cross-functional execution routines while partnering closely with Construction, Commissioning, Engineering, Network, Security, Data Center Operations, Logistics, Asset Management, Customer Experience, vendors, and site leadership. The role requires strong people leadership, project management discipline, field execution judgment, and the ability to drive accountability across teams that may not report directly into the deployment function. This is a site and regional deployment leadership role. You will be accountable for deployment execution quality, readiness governance, issue resolution, team performance, and clean handoff to operations across assigned sites or programs, while helping scale consistent playbooks, dashboards, and operating mechanisms for the broader deployment organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technical project management, data center deployment, mission-critical infrastructure operations, construction turnover, commissioning, cloud capacity delivery, utilities, telecom, colocation, or similarly complex infrastructure environments.
- 3-5+ years of people leadership experience managing deployment managers, technical project managers, program managers, project coordinators, or cross-functional infrastructure delivery teams.
- Experience leading deployment or readiness execution across multiple sites, large campuses, complex expansion programs, or high-visibility infrastructure delivery portfolios.
- Strong understanding of site readiness, construction-to-operations handoff, commissioning support, rack deployment, network turn-up, access controls, logistics, operational procedures, and turnover requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage schedules, dependencies, issue logs, risk trackers, readiness gates, dashboards, and executive-level status reporting in a fast-moving operational environment.
- Proven ability to influence Engineering, Construction, Operations, Network, Security, Logistics, vendors, and site leadership without direct authority over every stakeholder.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Operations, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating in hyperscale data center environments, cloud infrastructure delivery organizations, colocation, telecom, utilities, high-availability facilities, or large-scale hardware deployment functions.
- Experience with Smartsheet, Primavera, MS Project, Jira, ServiceNow, CMMS, DCIM, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, asset management, deployment tracking, ERP/MRP, or executive reporting platforms.
- Familiarity with data center power, cooling, network, physical security, rack deployment, commissioning evidence, MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, change management, and operational readiness documentation.
- Experience creating or governing deployment playbooks, readiness checklists, dashboards, turnover standards, lessons-learned loops, and deployment quality controls.
- PMP, PgMP, Lean, Six Sigma, OSHA, commissioning, construction management, or equivalent technical/program leadership certification.
- Experience managing third-party contractors, deployment vendors, integrators, commissioning partners, managed service providers, or technical service partners.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Site Deployment function across assigned sites, campuses, regions, or complex deployment programs, ensuring work is executed safely, predictably, and in alignment with OCI capacity and operational readiness commitments.
- Manage and develop deployment managers, project coordinators, and senior individual contributors responsible for deployment planning, readiness tracking, field coordination, risk management, and turnover execution.
- Own deployment execution plans, milestones, readiness gates, risk logs, action registers, dependency trackers, dashboards, and leadership status reporting for assigned deployment scope.
- Coordinate across Construction, Commissioning, Engineering, Network, Security, Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain, vendors, and site leadership to align schedules, remove blockers, and maintain deployment momentum.
- Translate deployment requirements into field-ready schedules, owner-based action plans, acceptance criteria, handoff requirements, and operational readiness checklists.
- Drive resolution of deployment blockers related to access, safety, space readiness, power and cooling readiness, materials, tooling, documentation, change windows, site constraints, and operational procedures.
- Govern readiness reviews, deployment meetings, issue-resolution sessions, handoff reviews, lessons learned, and recurring leadership reporting rhythms.
- Ensure turnover readiness by validating commissioning evidence, deployment prerequisites, inventory readiness, trained support coverage, documentation completeness, system activation, and open-item ownership.
- Serve as an escalation point for deployment risks that may impact safety, schedule, capacity delivery, customer commitments, security, or day-one operational supportability.
- Maintain executive-ready summaries that clearly communicate schedule health, risk exposure, open decisions, blocker ownership, recovery actions, and recommended paths forward.
- Identify recurring deployment process gaps and improve playbooks, templates, dashboards, readiness standards, governance routines, and cross-functional operating mechanisms.
- Build a high-accountability team culture focused on safety, clear communication, operational excellence, predictable delivery, continuous improvement, and strong partnership with site operations.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is available
- 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
- 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
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
