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Oracle Director, Data Center Facilities Development in Lansing, Michigan
Job Description
Oversees the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful delivery of projects within the established timeline, budget, and quality parameters. Provides high-level leadership to project managers, setting strategic goals and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Directs the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers. Directs the oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards. Leads strategic site walks and oversees the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects. Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation, and communicates potential impacts to executive leadership. Directs the role of primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers. Oversees the 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. Oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and managing high-impact installation resolutions.
Responsibilities
KeyResponsibilities
Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:
-Oversees the construction of data centers by
colocation providers, ensuring successful delivery of projects within the
established timeline, budget, and quality parameters.
-Develops, maintains, and oversees project
schedules, ensuring effective coordination with colocation providers for
on-time milestone achievement.
-Leads the creation, management, and optimization
of project budgets, ensuring strategic resource allocation and cost-efficiency
throughout the project.
-Provides high-level leadership to project
managers, setting strategic goals and ensuring alignment with organizational
objectives.
-Directs the creation, review, and maintenance of
documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving
papers, ensuring organizational standards are upheld, documents are managed and
delivered effectively, and all materials are suitable for their intended
purpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:
-Directs the oversight of quality control
processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and
industry standards.
-Directs the coordination and integration of
tenant fit out projects, developing strategies to enhance efficiency and
collaboration during design, construction, and commissioning phases.
-Leads strategic site walks to ensure schedule
adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
-Oversees the startup and commissioning phases of
major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meet
design specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Directs the evaluation of risk profiles
associated with timely project delivery across a portfolio of projects.
-Addresses gaps in risk identification and
mitigation, and communicates potential impacts to executive leadership.
-Develops and ensures the execution of
comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to
ensure overall project success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Directs the role of primary point of contact
between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective
communication and integrative solutions across the organization.
-Develops and maintains strategic relationships to
support internal and external stakeholders at a senior level, driving
organizational strategy and business objectives.
-Oversees the selection, negotiation, and
management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers,
ensuring contract compliance and performance, and managing high-impact contract
resolutions.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Directs collaboration with design teams to ensure
that construction activities align with the approved design plans and
specifications, integrating solutions across the organization.
-Provides high-level colocation provider
evaluation input for continuous improvement, driving organizational strategy
and business objectives.
-Oversees the installation of power, cooling,
networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality
standards and managing high-impact installation resolutions.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing
complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and
budgets when applicable to ensure strategic objectives are met. Serves as a
role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring
alignment with business needs. Coaches others on adjusting resources or project
timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Role models leading cross-functional
collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic
objectives. Empowers team to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders,
stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to
organizational success. Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling
actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Shares problem-solving strategies across teams,
providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify
solutions to ambiguous issues, and provides direction on identifying root
causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Pursues strategic learning opportunities to
maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in
new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills. Identifies skill gap
trends across the organization, and upholds a culture that places significant
emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance
the organization. Evaluates efficiency of learning strategies and recommends
adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
-Empowers team to own the development and
implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
processes, protocols, and workflows across the department. Coaches teams to
gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for
continued improvement. Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement
initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on
investments.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a role model for driving performance
across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with
performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Drives
consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes
performance expectations across the organization. Ensures that individual
development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion
processes.
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $139,400 to $291,800 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
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
Paid time off: 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
Paid sick leave: 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
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M4
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