**Job Description**
**About the Role:**
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Port Washington, WI Data Center is seeking a **Sr. Director, On-Site Power Delivery** to lead utility power coordination, high-voltage infrastructure readiness, substation delivery alignment, and permanent power energization across active OCI campuses.
This role ensures utility milestones, substations, outages, tie-ins, and permanent power transitions are planned, visible, and executed safely. The Sr. Director partners with utilities, construction, commissioning, startup, controls, operations, and portfolio leadership to keep power delivery aligned with project schedules and operational readiness.
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**
- Oversee HV utility interconnection strategy, substation delivery, and permanent power readiness
- Coordinate utility milestones, outages, tie-ins, energization sequencing, and recovery plans
- Maintain visibility into power delivery risks, dependencies, and schedule impacts across projects
- Partner with utilities, contractors, commissioning, startup, controls, operations, and portfolio teams
- Conduct power readiness reviews and energization readiness assessments
- Validate substation progress, field readiness, turnover quality, and startup alignment onsite
- Escalate utility, infrastructure, and energization risks early and clearly
- Support safe and reliable temporary-to-permanent power transitions
- Reinforce standards for live power work, outage planning, energization discipline, and turnover readiness
- Provide executive-level updates on utility constraints, power risks, and recovery priorities
- Drive consistency, accountability, and leadership capability across power delivery teams
**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.
Disclaimer:
**Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.**
**Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only**
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $193,600 to $414,400 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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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 - M5
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