Gigawatt Site Project Director, Data Centers

Meta is seeking an experienced Gigawatt Site Project Director to own delivery outcomes and capital risk for a single gigawatt-scale data center campus. Infrastructure Data Center (IDC) is responsible for Meta's data center strategy;
Design, Engineering & Construction (DEC) is accountable for engineering and construction execution. The DEC Delivery organization manages construction execution of all data center builds. This role is the owner of project outcomes for one 1GW+ mega cluster — a capital program an order of magnitude larger than our traditional campus, delivered in roughly a third of the time of Meta's prior campuses.

The campus is a complex multi-prime structure with an integrator. As owner of project outcomes for the campus, the role leads the DEC matrix teams — Delivery, Quality, Project Controls, and Design — in a team-captain capacity, integrating them into a single accountable delivery outcome.

• Role model and reinforce a high-performing, safety-focused culture across all internal and external teams on the campus
• respect and reinforce the Global Safety Manager's independent stop-work authority
• Own delivery outcomes and capital risk for a single gigawatt campus — safety, schedule, cost, quality, and provision readiness — from capital commitment through turnover
• Carry decision authority and fiduciary accountability at the capex focal point. Make the irreversible structural, commercial, and sequencing decisions concentrated in the first months of the build, when the cost of error is highest and recovery time is shortest
• Lead matrix teams — Delivery, Quality, Project Controls, and Design — integrating them into one accountable outcome without holding their reporting lines
• Own the multi-prime execution structure at the project level: the integrator relationship, prime contractor interfaces, demarcation and scope-gap management, and the commercial interfaces across prime scopes
• Direct the campus's contracted execution model in partnership with the Operations Director's vendor governance — accepting or rejecting deployments on supervision, training, and material readiness grounds
• Negotiate and approve construction change orders directly with contractors and vendors at campus scale
• escalate and resolve complex MEP, civil, cost, schedule, and contract issues
• Proactively and aggressively identify and mitigate risk ahead of the critical path, with particular attention to the early civil window — site access and logistics, earthwork and grading, utility and dry-utility coordination, foundations, and AHJ engagement — where schedule loss is unrecoverable
• Apply the product-line delivery method of record supplied by the Product Leads, adapting it to site conditions, AHJ requirements, and sequencing without diluting product intent or non-negotiables
• Take handoff from Site Development, Real Estate, and Energy as a receiving stakeholder — entitled land, permitted site, and committed power — and own construction delivery from that point forward
• Lead, manage, and develop the project team — set performance expectations, provide coaching and timely feedback, and build the capability of the campus Construction Managers and matrixed staff in partnership with the ACM
• Own the senior relationship with the campus's general contractor and trade partner leadership, navigating commercial and performance issues at the corporate level of the largest data center builders in the US
• Communicate campus risk and status to VP and executive leadership with proactive mitigation rather than escalation after the fact
• Interface across precon and planning, contracting, legal, business controls, engineering, design, and facility operations leadership
• Travel as required…