Vice President, Construction

5C DATA CENTERS

Join the Future of Digital Infrastructure

Are you a passionate Vice President, Construction looking to make a meaningful impact? We're building the next generation of digital infrastructure powering hyperscalers, AI innovation, and high-performance computing across North America.

JOB TITLE:

Vice President, Construction

DEPARTMENT: DC Construction

LOCATION:

USA

WORK ARRANGEMENT:
Hybrid

Role Summary

5C Data Centers is a rapidly scaling data center developer building national execution capability across large, complex, power-driven campuses. We support hyperscale, AI/high-density, powered land, and multi-building data center programs from site development and power planning through construction delivery, commissioning, and customer turnover.

This leader will build and lead a lean Construction Delivery organization, establish consistent field execution standards, and integrate closely with Planning & Development (PLaD), Pre-Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, Cost Control, Commissioning & Quality, Technical Program Management, Operations, and customers. Success requires strong field leadership, executive judgment, technical depth, and the ability to bring order to ambiguity in a rapidly scaling environment.

How We Work at 5C

Our core values guide how we collaborate, make decisions, support one another, and serve our customers. We're looking for people who embrace them and help us build something great.

What You Will Do

• Own safe, on-time construction execution from GC mobilization through substantial completion, commissioning support, turnover, and customer handover.
• Hold GCs accountable for integrated execution, including coordination of all owner-furnished, vendor, utility, commissioning, controls, and third-party activities that affect the project schedule.
• Drive recovery planning and decisive intervention when safety, schedule, cost, quality, resource, logistics, or interface performance threatens commitments.

• Recruit, lead, coach, and scale a lean Construction Delivery team capable of supporting multiple high-value projects without overbuilding the organization.
• Establish clear roles, decision rights, staffing ratios, performance expectations, escalation paths, and succession plans for field leadership.
• Create a culture of ownership, candor, autonomy, continuous improvement, and omni-directional accountability.

• Partner with Pre-Construction, Procurement, Legal, and Commercial teams on GC strategy, contracting approach, scope clarity, constructability, logistics, schedule requirements, and execution risk.
• Establish consistent GC performance expectations and scorecards for safety, schedule, cost, quality, staffing, planning, coordination, closeout, and customer readiness.
• Ensure contractors maintain credible, fully integrated schedules and actively manage subcontractors, vendors, owner-furnished equipment, and third-party interfaces.

• Partner with Project Controls and Cost Control to ensure construction forecasts, critical paths, progress, productivity, commitments, contingency, cash flow, and change exposure are accurate and decision-ready.
• Require timely mitigation and recovery plans for variance; challenge unsupported forecasts, excessive float consumption, late change identification, and unowned constraints.
• Ensure field decisions consider schedule, commercial, customer, capital, and downstream commissioning impacts.

• Champion an uncompromising safety culture and require contractors and field leaders to proactively identify and eliminate unsafe conditions.
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