Senior Data Center Project Manager, Special Projects (Nashville, TN)

Job Description

As Senior Project Manager, Special Projects , you will independently coordinate and drive construction-focused data center projects and complex workstreams across remediation, retrofit, expansion, and infrastructure improvement programs. You will provide structured project leadership across schedules, risks, dependencies, documentation, stakeholder alignment, and operational readiness to ensure projects are delivered safely, predictably, and with clear accountability.

You will partner closely with project managers, construction managers, engineering teams, commissioning partners, site operations, procurement, vendors, contractors, and technical SMEs. At this level, you are expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, anticipate project risks, resolve coordination challenges, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and establish scalable project controls and execution practices across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently coordinate complex Special Projects construction activities across multiple sites, projects, or interconnected workstreams.
• Own and maintain integrated project controls, including schedules, milestone plans, action registers, risk and issue logs, decision logs, dependency tracking, and project documentation repositories.
• Drive cross-functional project cadence, including planning sessions, readiness reviews, technical coordination meetings, risk reviews, and executive or leadership status updates.
• Identify schedule, scope, dependency, resource, procurement, commissioning, and operational-readiness risks and drive mitigation plans with accountable stakeholders.
• Coordinate critical project deliverables including submittals, RFIs, closeout documentation, commissioning evidence, punch lists, turnover requirements, as-builts, warranties, and operational handoff packages.
• Lead readiness tracking across Construction, Engineering, Operations, Commissioning, Procurement, vendors, and other technical stakeholders to ensure prerequisites and dependencies are resolved before key milestones.
• Develop clear, concise project reporting that communicates milestone health, schedule exposure, critical risks, decisions required, blockers, dependencies, and recovery actions to project and senior leadership.
• Drive accountability for open actions by establishing clear owners, commitments, due dates, escalation paths, and closure criteria.
• Coordinate procurement status, vendor dependencies, logistics, site access, material readiness, site visits, and other execution requirements that could affect project delivery.
• Anticipate cross-functional conflicts and delivery risks, facilitate resolution, and escalate issues with clear impact assessments and recommended actions.
• Ensure project records meet expectations for audit readiness, warranty management, asset onboarding, safety, commissioning, operational acceptance, and long-term documentation integrity.
• Develop and improve standardized project controls, templates, reporting methods, meeting structures, dashboards, and documentation practices that can be adopted across the broader Special Projects organization.
• Analyze recurring execution issues and project trends to identify systemic gaps and recommend improvements to processes, governance, planning, and delivery practices.
• Support or mentor less-experienced project coordinators and team members in project controls, documentation standards, stakeholder management, and execution discipline.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities with limited supervision while maintaining accurate reporting, timely escalation, and strong stakeholder communication.
• Reinforce safety, security, access-control, change-management, and active-site requirements throughout project planning and execution.

NOTE: This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 8+ years of relevant experience in project coordination, project management, construction administration, data center delivery, facilities operations, engineering support, procurement, technical program management, or infrastructure delivery.
• Demonstrated experience independently coordinating complex projects or major workstreams in construction, mission-critical facilities, data centers, utilities, industrial operations, critical manufacturing, or infrastructure environments.
• Experience managing project schedules, risks, dependencies, actions, milestones, documentation, and stakeholder commitments across multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to identify project risks early, assess potential impacts, develop mitigation strategies, and drive issues through resolution.
• Experience coordinating across project managers, construction managers, contractors, vendors, engineering disciplines, commissioning teams, procurement organizations, and site operations.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex technical and project information into concise status reports, risk summaries, decision requests, and leadership communications.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Experience improving project-management processes, controls, reporting practices, templates, or operating mechanisms across teams or programs.
• Strong judgment, written communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing project environments.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in construction management, engineering, business, operations, project management, or a related field.

Skills and Competencies

• Advanced project planning, coordination, and execution discipline across complex, interdependent workstreams.
• Strong ownership mentality with the ability to independently drive projects and issues from identification through closure.
• Ability to recognize schedule, technical, operational, procurement, and execution risks before they materially affect project milestones.
• Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills across technical, operational, construction, vendor, and leadership organizations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and dependencies across multiple projects, sites, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate project data into meaningful insights, risks, priorities, and recommended actions.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and project information clearly to both technical teams and senior leadership.
• Strong document-control and project-governance mindset with emphasis on accuracy, traceability, completeness, version control, and auditability.
• Demonstrated ability to establish scalable processes and improve project execution through standardization, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to mentor and provide project execution guidance to less-experienced team members.
• Sound judgment and decision-making skills in active, mission-critical environments where safety, reliability, and operational continuity are essential.

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Advanced experience with tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Primavera P6, Procore, Jira, SharePoint, CMMS platforms, dashboards, or enterprise document-control systems.
• Experience developing or managing integrated schedules, milestone tracking, critical-path dependencies, risk registers, executive dashboards, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Strong familiarity with construction lifecycle processes including design coordination, RFIs, submittals, change management, commissioning, punch lists, O&M documentation, as-builts, warranties, closeout, and turnover.
• PMP, PMI-SP, CCM, OSHA, construction management, project controls, or equivalent professional certification.
• Experience delivering projects within hyperscale data centers, colocation facilities, utilities, critical manufacturing, semiconductor facilities, or other mission-critical environments.
• Working knowledge of data center electrical power, mechanical cooling, controls/BMS, life safety, security, networking infrastructure, commissioning, and operational-readiness concepts.
• Experience coordinating projects in live operational environments where construction activities must be carefully managed around critical infrastructure and customer-impact risk.
• Experience establishing project-management standards, developing repeatable operating mechanisms, or improving project delivery practices across multiple teams or sites.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

This role operates across office, remote collaboration, construction, commissioning, and active data center environments. The position may require travel to project sites. Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, and complying with all applicable safety, PPE, security, and access-control requirements.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at cloud scale supporting mission-critical infrastructure for customers around the world.
• Technically rigorous environment where reliability, safety, documentation, risk management, and operational readiness are fundamental to successful project delivery.
• Culture built on ownership, sound judgment, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and cross-functional partnership.
• Opportunity to influence how complex infrastructure projects are planned and executed while developing toward broader project, program, construction, and portfolio leadership responsibilities.
• Long-term career development across cloud infrastructure, data center operations, construction delivery, engineering, and global portfolio leadership.

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Qualifications

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: $114,600 to $234,600 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 - IC5

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