Vice President Pre-Construction

5C DATA CENTERS

Join the Future of Digital Infrastructure

Are you a passionate Vice President, Pre-Construction looking to make a meaningful impact? We're building the next generation of digital infrastructure powering hyperscalers, AI innovation, and high-performance computing across North America.

JOB TITLE

Vice President, Pre-Construction

DEPARTMENT

DC Operations

LOCATION

USA

WORK ARRANGEMENT

Remote

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

25-50%

Role Summary

The Vice President, Pre-Construction architects and builds the lean function that converts authorized data center projects into executable construction plans and documented ready-to-build (R2B) handoffs. This leader integrates constructability, construction phasing, design and permit readiness, utilities, estimates, schedules, procurement and contractor scope before mobilization. The role directs pre-construction across the portfolio, supports active projects on unresolved pre-construction obligations, and builds repeatable standards, governance and team capability.

How We Work at 5C

Our core values guide how we collaborate, make decisions, support one another, and serve our customers. We're looking for people who embrace them and help us build something great.

What You Will Do

Pre-Construction Strategy & Functional Leadership

• Build the pre-construction operating model, including scope, readiness standards, work-release gates, staffing and escalation paths.
• Prioritize projects and specialist resources against construction-start dates, customer requirements, readiness risk and authorized pre-construction spend.

Project Intake & Scope Definition

• Receive approved project requirements and documented site, utility and approval constraints; confirm scope, assumptions and open conditions with the responsible upstream functions.
• Define construction scope boundaries, owner-direct interfaces and package requirements with Engineering, Construction and Procurement; return unresolved upstream items to their accountable owners.

Power, Utilities & Connectivity Readiness

• Integrate documented power, water, wastewater and fiber requirements into construction sequencing, including phased service dates, interconnection work and off-site infrastructure dependencies.
• Confirm utility scope, access, installation and energization prerequisites with responsible specialists; accelerate delivery gaps without assuming ownership of utility feasibility or capacity procurement.

Construction Permitting & Release Conditions

• Coordinate construction permit packages, submissions, approval conditions and release dates with Engineering and responsible specialists; track prerequisites for authorized work packages.
• Translate existing entitlement conditions and off-site obligations into construction requirements; accelerate unresolved approvals to their owners before recommending mobilization.

Constructability & Technical Coordination

• Collaborate in constructability reviews with Engineering, Construction and Technical Program Management.
• Incorporate cost and schedule implications of buildability and interface gaps involving infrastructure, equipment access, installation sequencing and operational separation; preserve Engineering's design authority.

Pre-Construction Risk & Readiness Governance

• Produce construction-release recommendations stating readiness evidence, alternatives, cost and schedule impacts, residual risks and required approvals.
• Maintain assumptions, risks, decisions and owner/date actions; revalidate material dependencies before tender, procurement release and construction authorization.

Construction Phasing, Logistics & Early Works

• Develop construction phasing, early-works, site-logistics and labor strategies with Construction; align executable work packages to documented site constraints and delivery milestones.
• Integrate equipment access, temporary services, installation sequencing, commissioning needs and modular or prefabricated delivery opportunities into execution plans.

Estimate, Schedule & Procurement Integration

• Coordinate scope-complete estimate and milestone inputs with Estimating, Cost Control and Project Controls, including assumptions, allowances, contingency and owner-direct scope.
• Partner with Procurement on packaging, market engagement and long-lead releases; surface cancellation exposure and prerequisites before commitments.

Design, Tender & Award Readiness

• Align design-release plans, permit packages and tender scope with Engineering, Construction and Procurement; close gaps, exclusions and interface ambiguity.
• Ensure proposed contractor requirements include integrated scheduling and coordination of utilities, owner-furnished equipment, vendors, commissioning and other affected stakeholders.

Ready-to-Build Handoff & Execution Support

• Lead documented handoff of approved scope, budgets, schedules, permits, utility obligations, procurement status and remaining risks to Construction.
• Define package-specific release conditions for phased starts; retain ownership of unresolved pre-construction actions without duplicating daily construction management.

Team Development & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Recruit and develop pre-construction leaders; establish clear ownership, specialist coverage, review standards and succession capability.
• Resolve cross-functional tradeoffs with concise recommendations; communicate readiness limitations and delivery implications candidly to executives and customer-facing teams.

Lessons Learned & Continuous Improvement

• Compare pre-construction assumptions with actual construction, cost, utility and commissioning outcomes; feed findings into future constructability, packaging and readiness standards.
• Standardize practical checklists, decision records and reporting while removing low-value administration and preserving project-specific judgment.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of progressive pre-construction, construction management or complex capital-project leadership, including senior functional or portfolio responsibility.
• Demonstrated leadership of constructability, design and tender readiness, estimate and schedule integration, and construction-readiness reviews for large, multi-phase projects.
• Experience delivering data center or comparable mission-critical infrastructure; able to challenge technical, cost, schedule, procurement and commissioning assumptions.
• Track record building teams and practical processes while supporting active projects in a lean, fast-moving environment.
• Strong executive communication, commercial judgment and cross-functional influence; able to convert incomplete evidence into clear, qualified recommendations.

Why Join 5C Data Centers?

At 5C, we believe great people build great companies. You'll build a rewarding career while helping shape the future of digital infrastructure - one of the fastest-growing industries in the world.

Career Growth

Build a rewarding career in one of the world's fastest-growing industries.

Industry Leadership

Help power the infrastructure behind AI and high-performance computing.

Entrepreneurial Culture

Your ideas matter - we empower employees to help shape our future.

Comprehensive Rewards

Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do.

Life at 5C

We're more than a workplace - we're a team of builders, innovators, and problem-solvers united by a shared purpose: creating infrastructure that powers the technologies transforming our world. Your voice matters here, and we encourage fresh ideas at every level.

5C Data Centers is an equal opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. 5C evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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