Director, Power Infrastructure Construction

Overview

As the Director, Power Infrastructure Construction, you will be at the forefront of shaping the delivery strategy for large-scale power infrastructure programs that enable data center growth. Your leadership will be pivotal in driving execution certainty, safety excellence, financial discipline, and long-term operational reliability across multiple campuses and regions. You will build and lead a high-performing team responsible for overseeing complex, developer-led power infrastructure projects while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and capital deployment strategies.

Strategically, you will establish and implement construction governance frameworks that strengthen schedule performance, cost control, risk management, and quality outcomes across the portfolio. You will engage closely with power developers, contractors, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to provide clear visibility into delivery performance and proactively mitigate emerging risks. Your ability to anticipate challenges, guide mitigation strategies, and scale organizational capability will be essential to maintaining predictable delivery in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

From a portfolio leadership perspective, you will drive continuous improvement initiatives, refine construction standards, and ensure safety and compliance expectations are consistently met across all projects. By combining strategic oversight with strong field engagement and team development, you will help ensure power infrastructure programs are delivered efficiently, safely, and in support of the organization’s long-term data center expansion goals.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Construction Oversight: Establish and lead portfolio-level oversight of large-scale power infrastructure projects supporting data center developments. Provide executive direction across developer-led construction programs to ensure alignment with organizational objectives for safety, schedule, cost, quality, and long-term operational performance.
• Organizational Leadership & Team Development: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of construction managers and technical professionals to support expanding power infrastructure programs. Establish clear roles, accountability frameworks, performance expectations, and career development pathways to scale delivery capability.
• Construction Governance & Standards: Define and implement enterprise construction management standards for safety, quality, schedule control, cost management, and reporting. Ensure consistent application of governance processes across all power infrastructure projects and continuously refine standards to improve delivery predictability.
• Portfolio Schedule Strategy: Provide executive oversight of project schedules across the power infrastructure portfolio, identifying systemic risks, resource constraints, and sequencing challenges. Guide mitigation strategies to protect critical milestones and long-term campus development timelines.
• Financial Oversight & Commercial Strategy: Oversee portfolio-level budgets, forecasts, and change management processes. Provide strategic direction on cost control, commercial risk exposure, and financial performance trends to ensure disciplined capital deployment.
• Enterprise Risk Leadership: Lead identification and evaluation of major construction and delivery risks across the portfolio. Establish structured risk management frameworks and ensure timely escalation, mitigation planning, and executive visibility of material impacts.
• Quality & Technical Assurance: Set expectations and governance for QA/QC execution across power infrastructure projects. Ensure compliance with design intent, technical standards, regulatory requirements, and operational readiness objectives.
• Safety Leadership: Champion a strong safety culture across all construction activities, setting clear expectations for safety performance, validating compliance with Site Specific Safety Plans, and holding developers and contractors accountable to industry-leading standards.
• Executive Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as a senior point of contact between the organization and power developers, contractors, and executive stakeholders. Facilitate alignment across engineering, program management, commissioning, operations, and commercial teams to ensure cohesive delivery.
• Field Engagement & Accountability: Maintain active engagement through strategic site presence and leadership engagement, reinforcing accountability for schedule adherence, coordination effectiveness, safety performance, and quality outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the power infrastructure program by identifying systemic gaps, leveraging lessons learned, and incorporating industry best practices and emerging technologies to enhance delivery performance and long-term asset value.
• Scalable Program Growth: Develop and execute strategies to scale power infrastructure construction capabilities in support of multi-campus and multi-region growth, ensuring organizational readiness to support increasing demand and complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in power infrastructure construction management, with demonstrated leadership over large-scale, mission-critical, or data center–related projects.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing construction or infrastructure teams in complex, multi-project environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise construction governance, including schedule strategy, financial oversight, risk management, quality assurance, and safety leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to provide strategic direction across multiple projects while maintaining executive-level visibility into cost, schedule, and risk performance.
• Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence internal stakeholders, developers, contractors, and senior leadership.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, with experience navigating complex construction challenges and driving organizational alignment.
• Proven ability to work effectively across diverse, cross-functional teams and manage external partner relationships in high-growth environments.

Key skills/competency

• Power Infrastructure
• Construction Management
• Data Center Operations
• Project Leadership
• Program Management
• Risk Management
• Financial Oversight
• Safety Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Team Development