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Principal Program Manager - Datacenter Construction

Microsoft
USA
Full-time
Senior · 12+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 6 days ago

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The Director of Construction is responsible for driving best-in-class speed-to-market outcomes across the Americas construction portfolio.

This role will develop and execute strategies that accelerate the delivery of critical datacenter capacity, identifying opportunities to optimize planning, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, and handoff processes to reduce schedule duration while maintaining safety, quality, and financial discipline.

This role serves as the central point for construction acceleration initiatives across the region, ensuring lessons learned, innovations, and proven delivery strategies are rapidly shared and adopted across projects and metros.

The role will partner closely with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Design, Quality, Commissioning, and Business Operations teams to align priorities, remove barriers, and enable faster, more predictable project execution.

They will identify systemic opportunities for optimization, pilot new delivery approaches, and scale successful practices across the portfolio to maximize capacity delivery and achieve best in class speed to market.

Drives deployment of large-scale campus-based delivery solutions that have the potential to be used globally across entire portfolios.

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years related experience OR equivalent experience. 12+ years experience working on data center projects. 10+ years project management experience. 10+ years people management experience.

Experience

leading large-scale capital construction programs with accountability for safety, quality, scope, schedule, cost, and business outcomes.

Experience

leading geographically distributed construction organizations across multiple campuses, metros, regions, or countries.

Strong cross-functional leader with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across Construction, Engineering, Supply Chain, Contracts, Project Controls, Commissioning, Quality, Operations, and external partners.

These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

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