Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Shackleford County Data Center is searching for a Sr.Director, Data Center End-to-End Portfolio & Project Controls to lead OCI's rapid expansion of the Shackleford AI Data Center Campus which requires a proven executive capable of establishing and scaling End-to-End (E2E) Portfolio & Project Controls organization ensuring the leadership necessary to deliver and lead portfolio forecasting, project controls, operational analytics, supply chain coordination, manufacturing readiness, and TPM governance across regional data center delivery projects.

This role will have end-to-end accountability for project controls across a portfolio totaling approximately $29 billion in capital investment, with critical delivery milestones beginning in September 2026 and extending through July 2028. In addition to overseeing project schedule, cost, forecasting, and reporting, the leader will build and manage a high-performing organization consisting of full-time employees, vendor partners, and a construction workforce that currently exceeds 3,500 personnel and is expected to grow to approximately 8,000 workers at peak campus activity.

The E2E Portfolio & Project Controls executive must possess exceptional executive level communication and stakeholder management capabilities to influence, align, and coordinate across internal executive stakeholders, engineering, construction, commercial, and customer organizations, as well as external partners. Given the breadth of responsibility and cross-functional influence required, this position demands one of the highest levels of ownership, autonomy, and strategic decision-making within the data center delivery organization.

This role provides strategic oversight and leadership for the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful completion of projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

• Directs and mentors' construction project teams, ensuring the alignment of all projects with the overall strategic vision of the organization.
• Strategizes and directs the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers.
• Provides executive oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
• Directs high-level site walks and leads the strategic startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects.
• Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation and informs the board of associated potential impacts.
• Provides executive oversight as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers.
• Directs the strategic selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance and construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications.
• Directs the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead integrated portfolio schedules, forecasts, dashboards, and executive reporting.
• Track portfolio performance across cost, schedule, risk, safety, supply chain, and execution.
• Identify critical path risks, cross-project dependencies, delivery constraints, and recovery needs.
• Develop mitigation plans, recovery forecasts, risk registers, milestone trackers, and action logs.
• Coordinate long-lead procurement, supplier readiness, manufacturing alignment, logistics, and material flow.
• Support prefab, modular delivery, OSA adoption, and industrialized delivery scaling.
• Partner with project teams, suppliers, logistics providers, manufacturing partners, and leadership to improve execution alignment.
• Validate reporting through regular field engagement and site reviews.
• Ensure portfolio-level risks are escalated early with clear ownership and action plans.
• Lead TPM governance, operating rhythms, accountability tracking, and cross-functional coordination.
• Monitor KPIs including forecast accuracy, cost variance, schedule adherence, mitigation closure, material delivery, supplier performance, manufacturing throughput, logistics readiness, safety trends, and portfolio health

Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:
-Provides strategic oversight and leadership for the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful completion of projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
-Develops, maintains, and provides executive oversight for comprehensive project schedules, ensuring strategic coordination with colocation providers for the successful delivery of all project milestones.
-Leads and oversees the strategic creation, management, and optimization of project budgets, ensuring efficient use of resources and cost-effective delivery of projects across the organization.
-Directs and mentors construction project teams, ensuring the alignment of all projects with the overall strategic vision of the organization.
-Strategizes and directs the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers, ensuring enterprise-wide adherence to standards, effective document management and delivery, and suitability of all materials for their intended purpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:
-Provides executive oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
-Strategizes and manages the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, optimizing processes and driving improvements throughout design, construction, and commissioning phases.
-Directs high-level site walks to ensure strategic schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
-Leads the strategic startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meet design specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Provides executive oversight for the evaluation of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery across numerous projects.
-Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation and informs the board of associated potential impacts.
-Develops and ensures the strategic implementation of comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure corporate project success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Provides executive oversight as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective communication and executive alignment.
-Develops and maintains high-level strategic relationships to support internal and external stakeholders, influencing corporate strategy and long-term goals.
-Directs the strategic selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance, and resolving the most critical and complex contract issues.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Provides executive oversight of collaboration with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, ensuring executive alignment.
-Provides high-level colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement, influencing corporate strategy and long-term goals.
-Directs the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and resolving the most critical and complex installation issues.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success. Sets strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs. Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Sets a strategic direction for collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives. Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to contribute to organizational success. Promotes a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Develops and implements strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues. Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to address significant ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.
Continuous Learning:
-Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices. Inspires teams to build and maintain expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards to help position the organization as an industry leader. Contributes to the organization's strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster learning opportunities for the team.
Continuous Improvement:
-Drives a culture of continuous improvement that sets a standard for efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Oversees work to implement large-scale approaches and methods for continued improvement, ensuring changes align with organizational goals. Sets the strategic direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of improvement initiatives to maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
-Drives and ensures consistent application of performance management strategies, systems, processes, and guidelines across the organization. Creates an organizational culture of career development that encourages proactively identifying and pursuing career development opportunities and guiding leaders to support their team's growth. Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization. Partners with HR and executive leadership to envision and execute a talent management strategy, balancing budget, and talent resources.

Qualifications:

• 13+ years' experience in project controls, portfolio management, program management, construction delivery, supply chain, or operational governance.
• 7+ years' experience in leadership and people management, managing managers of managers
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure, data center, mission-critical, industrial, or manufacturing programs.
• Strong understanding of integrated schedules, cost tracking, risk management, forecasting, and executive reporting.
• Ability to connect portfolio data with actual field conditions.
• Experience coordinating supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and material readiness with project execution needs.
• Strong leadership, executive communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive accountability without directly owning field execution.
• Willingness to travel regularly to project sites, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Experience in hyperscale data center delivery or mission-critical construction.
• Experience with Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
• Background in TPM, project controls, supply chain integration, or industrialized construction.
• Experience with prefab, modular construction, OSA, manufacturing coordination, or logistics planning.
• Strong executive reporting and dashboard development experience.
• Experience improving forecast accuracy, schedule predictability, supplier readiness, logistics performance, and safety visibility.
• Certifications: PMP, PgMP, PMI-SP, CCP, PSP, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification preferred.

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Qualifications

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
12 years of experience in construction project management

OR

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field AND 8 years of experience in construction project management

OR

Master's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field AND 6 years of experience in construction project management

OR

Doctorate in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field AND 4 years of experience in construction project management

Job Skills:
Same as prior level

Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
13 years of experience in construction project management

OR

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field AND 9 years of experience in construction project management

OR

Master's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field AND 7 years of experience in construction project management

OR

Doctorate in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field AND 5 years of experience in construction project management.
People Leadership / Management Experience
8 years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports
Budget Experience:
4 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.