Director of Construction

About Nscale
Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Director of Construction to join nscale and lead on-site execution teams delivering data center infrastructure from preconstruction through room delivery and turnover. Reporting to the VP of Construction, this individual owns program management across nscale’s active construction portfolio, manages the Senior Managers leading each program or region, and coordinates closely with Design & Engineering, Commissioning, Procurement, Legal, Security, and Environmental functions to keep delivery on schedule, on budget, and to spec.

The ideal candidate has led mission-critical data center construction, development, or owner’s-representation work at scale, and is comfortable standardizing build processes and design decisions across multiple regions while maintaining owner-side visibility into safety performance, quality, and compliance risk on every active site.

What You’ll be Doing

Lead on-site execution teams delivering data center construction programs from preconstruction through room delivery, commissioning, and turnover, reporting program status directly to the VP of Construction

Directly manage the Senior Manager(s) assigned to each active program or region; set consistent execution standards, reporting cadence, and quality expectations across all sites

Develop project scopes and objectives in coordination with Design & Engineering, Commissioning, Procurement, and Operations; ensure resource availability and allocation of materials, labor, and schedule across active programs

Coordinate across Health & Safety, Security, Environmental, Legal, Engineering, Procurement, Commissioning, Controls, and Operations to keep each program on schedule, on budget, and in compliance

Maintain owner-side visibility into safety performance, quality issues, and compliance risk across the construction lifecycle of every active site

Serve as the escalation point for issues that exceed program-level authority, including schedule slippage, cost overruns, contractual disputes, and significant safety incidents

Review and approve program budgets, major change orders, and contingency draws; report cost and schedule performance to the VP of Construction

Evaluate designs and analyze contracting scenarios across jurisdictions to improve safety, security, quality, availability, deployment speed, and cost; standardize build processes across regions

Support negotiation of GC and major subcontractor agreements and long-lead MEP equipment procurement in partnership with Procurement and Legal

Standardize preconstruction, construction, commissioning, and turnover playbooks across programs; drive continuous improvement based on lessons learned from each site

Partner with Development and Design leadership to align construction feasibility, constructability, and cost with site selection and early-stage program planning

Recruit, mentor, and develop the Senior Manager and program controls bench; own performance management and succession planning for program leadership roles

Protect the independence of the EHS and program controls (scheduling, cost) functions across every program

Identify and mitigate program and portfolio-level risks including supply chain disruption, labor market constraints, regulatory change, and jurisdictional/permitting complexity

About You

10+ years of construction…