Vice President, Data Centre Operations and Development

Qu Data Centres is a rapidly growing, private-equity-backed digital infrastructure platform operating data centres across Canada. The Vice President, Data Centre Operations and Development will lead national portfolio performance, reliability, customer experience, expansion readiness, capital deployment, and operational excellence as Qu scales colocation, connectivity, AI, and high-density compute capacity.

This is a unique opportunity to join a company at a transformative stage of growth and play a key leadership role in scaling one of Canada's leading digital infrastructure platforms. The successful candidate will bring an ownership mindset, balancing operational performance, customer commitments, profitability, capital efficiency, and long-term growth objectives in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

• Define and execute the operational vision for Qu’s datacentreportfolio, including high-density (HD) and low-density (LD) colocationenvironments.
• Lead initiatives to modernize and scale products and sites, including partnering with engineering and design teams to maximize available sellable capacity and translate priorities into a practical multi-site CAPEX deployment plan.
• Develop and implement a 100-day tactical plan focused on operational readiness, customer experience, strategic expansion, operational controls, and near-term CAPEX execution priorities.
• Build and operate against a robust set of KPIs and metrics.
• Have a deep understanding of overall and site-level economics including costs, profitability, capital deployment, and alignment to business cases and return objectives.
• Develop and execute on a customer physical move plan as required to create more sellable contiguous colocation capacity.
• Ability to build consensus and alignment through clear communications, collaboration, and terminology.

• Lead design and construction readiness for data centre expansion and retrofit initiatives, including utility power capacity, electrical, mechanical, and architectural design inputs, professional partner engagement, equipment selection and procurement, schedules, budgets, permitting, and independent commissioning.

• Oversee facility operations, including uptime, SLAs, capacity utilization, change management, provisioning, maintenance governance, commissioning readiness, operational turnover, vendor management, and critical infrastructure resilience.
• Optimize space, power, and cooling inventory to balance customer commitments, site economics, and future growth capacity.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety, security, and regulatory standards across all sites.
• Maintain accurate documentation, operating data, and single-source-of-truth reporting for stakeholders, including as-builts, SLDs, occupancy, reserved capacity, consumption, BMS, EPMS, DCIM, maintenance records, and sellable-capacity trends.
• Maintain standardized security, compliance, and site-control practices, including access control, visitor and contractor procedures, escorts, shipping and receiving, surveillance, zoning, monitoring, audit readiness, and evidence management.
• Develop, maintain, and test emergency, incident response, and business continuity procedures, including escalation protocols, root cause reviews, and corrective action tracking.
• Lead and measure energy-efficiency initiatives, including power and energy consumption review, mechanical efficiency programs, free cooling, containment, and other PUE-reducing measures.
• Provide operational oversight for telecom infrastructure services, including Meet-Me Rooms, cross-connects, points of entry, and conduit management.

• Have a deep understanding of customer contracts, obligations, and service commitments, and ensure these remain aligned with site capabilities, operating standards, and delivery feasibility.
• Oversee customer installation, service-change, and de-provisioning processes to ensure reliable, SLA-aligned execution.
• Support larger bids, designs, and proposals by translating space, power, cooling, network, and CAPEX deployment constraints into clear guidance on deliverability, capex, and customer commitment timing.

• Build and lead a high-performing, eff operations team with clear roles, responsibilities, and KPIs.
• Identify leadership gaps and recruit talent to support strategic goals.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous…