As Senior Director, Special Projects, you will lead a construction-focused portfolio of strategic data center projects that improve capacity, reliability, safety, maintainability, and operational readiness across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This role owns the operating model for complex remediation, retrofit, expansion, lifecycle, and infrastructure improvement programs that sit outside routine delivery but are critical to long-term site performance.
You will lead directors, managers, technical SMEs, project managers, vendors, and cross-functional partners across Construction, Engineering, Commissioning, Data Center Operations, Reliability, Procurement, Finance, Safety, and Security. The role requires executive leadership, deep construction and operational judgment, and the ability to create scalable governance for high-risk work across active mission-critical environments.
Internal Responsibilities
Set the strategy, operating model, and governance framework for the Special Projects construction portfolio across assigned sites, regions, or global programs.
Lead teams responsible for remediation, retrofits, infrastructure upgrades, capacity improvements, lifecycle replacements, and construction-driven operational improvements.
Own portfolio prioritization, staffing strategy, budget alignment, risk governance, executive reporting, and escalation management.
Partner with Construction, Engineering, Operations, Reliability, Commissioning, Procurement, Finance, Safety, Security, and vendors to align project scope with operational needs.
Ensure projects are planned and executed with strong safety controls, change management, outage planning, customer impact awareness, and operational readiness discipline.
Drive resolution of complex construction, design, commissioning, procurement, schedule, and stakeholder issues.
Establish portfolio dashboards, KPIs, risk registers, decision logs, and governance cadences for leadership visibility.
Ensure special projects produce complete turnover documentation, asset data, commissioning evidence, warranty records, and operational handoff materials.
Build and develop leaders and senior individual contributors, reinforcing accountability, technical rigor, and cross-functional execution.
Represent Special Projects in executive reviews, funding discussions, site readiness forums, and major incident or remediation planning.
15+ years of experience in construction, data center delivery, mission-critical infrastructure, engineering, facilities operations, capital projects, or special projects leadership.
7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers, senior project leaders, technical SMEs, or distributed construction teams.
Experience managing large, complex construction or remediation portfolios in active data center, utility, industrial, manufacturing, or high-availability environments.
Strong understanding of MEP infrastructure, commissioning, construction closeout, operational handoff, safety, change management, and site operations constraints.
Demonstrated ability to build governance models, dashboards, operating rhythms, and executive reporting for complex portfolios.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, facilities management, operations, or equivalent practical experience.
Executive leadership with strong judgment across construction risk, operational impact, schedule, budget, and safety.
Deep cross-functional partnership across build, operate, procure, engineer, and finance functions.
High accountability for portfolio visibility, issue resolution, governance, and measurable outcomes.
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