Director, On-Site Power Delivery

Director, On-Site Power Delivery

Location: Preferred Abilene, Texas or Texas Remote with 50% travel.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene AI Data Center is seeking a 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. The role ensures utility milestones, substations, outages, tie‑ins, and permanent power transitions are planned, visible, and executed safely. The Director partners with utilities, construction, commissioning, startup, controls, operations, and portfolio leadership to keep power delivery aligned with project schedules and operational readiness.

This is a field‑engaged leadership role with an expected 40–60% site presence during critical utility, energization, startup, and recovery activities.

• Lead regional utility power delivery governance across OCI campuses: 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; elevate 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.

• 13+ years of experience in utility power delivery, HV/MV electrical infrastructure, substations, mission‑critical construction, data centers, industrial campuses, or large capital programs.
• 5+ years of leadership and people management experience managing teams, contractors, utility partners, or cross‑functional delivery groups.
• Strong knowledge of utility feeds, substations, switch gear, transformers, protection systems, metering, grounding, and power distribution interfaces.
• Proven experience with utility coordination, interconnection strategy, substation delivery, energization planning, and permanent power readiness.
• Experience managing utility‑driven schedule risks, outage constraints, tie‑ins, long‑lead infrastructure, and recovery plans.
• Background supporting commissioning, startup, turnover, and temporary‑to‑permanent power transitions.
• Strong field leadership presence with the ability to assess readiness, challenge assumptions, and drive accountability.
• Clear executive communication skills and ability to simplify complex power risks into decisions and actions.
• Strong safety leadership related to energized work, LOTO, outage planning, and live power activities.
• Ability to travel regularly to active campuses and maintain 40–60% site engagement as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, construction management, engineering management, or related field; equivalent experience considered. PE, PMP, OSHA 30, NFPA 70E, or similar credentials preferred.
• Experience with data centers, cloud campuses, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, energy, or other mission‑critical environments.
• Experience leading regional or multi‑campus power delivery programs.
• Familiarity with utility interconnection, service agreements, outage requests, energization approvals, and metering requirements.
• Experience in owner’s representative, developer, EPC, construction management, commissioning, startup, or operations leadership roles.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across utilities, contractors, project teams, and operations without direct authority.

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Hiring range in USD from $139,400 – $291,800 per year. May be eligible for bonus,…