Sr. Director, Construction

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The Senior Director of Construction will serve as NTT’s on-site leader responsible for end-to-end construction delivery across a large-scale multi-building data center campus with construction budgets exceeding $1B per data center. This role provides daily oversight and drives execution across multiple concurrent projects/phases, ensuring alignment with standards for safety, quality, schedule, cost, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness. This position will serve as the single point of accountability on-site for NTT, overseeing GCs and vendors while leading a high-performing internal team of Project Managers.

The Senior Director ensures disciplined execution across the full lifecycle from site enablement, design, procurement, vertical building construction, MEP installation, commissioning, and phased turnovers.

• Responsible for building, mentoring, and leading construction teams to achieve project goals related to construction safety, quality, schedule, cost, fostering a high-performance, execution-focused culture with strong field engagement.
• Maintain consistent daily presence on-site across the campus to lead execution, remove constraints, and enforce standards.
• Oversee construction delivery and coordinate across multiple buildings/phases simultaneously (Site, Shell, MEP, Fit-out), ensuring resources and priorities are optimized campus-wide.
• Sequence, coordinate and manage interdependencies for site infrastructure (power, fiber, water, roads) with building delivery to meet capacity ramp timelines.
• Drive standardization and repeatability across buildings (design, construction approach, commissioning strategy).
• Partner with internal teams (safety, engineering, cost, supply chain, etc) teams to ensure on-time delivery.
• Interface with external utilities, AHJs, inspectors, and local stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery.
• Champion a “Zero Incident” safety culture across all contractors, holding GCs/Subs/Suppliers accountable to Owner safety expectations.
• Establish and enforce QA/QC standards across all phases and trades, to help ensure installations meet mission-critical performance and reliability expectations.
• Oversee General Contractor, project teams, direct contractors (ex. Commissioning Agents), third party testing agencies, the project controls and MEP teams for each project.
• Responsible for tracking project timelines to ensure milestones are being met by each of these entities by driving contractor accountability for manpower, productivity, and look-ahead planning, and leading schedule recovery efforts when needed to maintain predictable delivery across the campus.
• Implement change management routines to assess change requests for impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality, and make recommendations, secure approvals, and issue change orders.
• Identify project risks, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.

• Strong understanding of Project Management, Planning, Construction Management, and Data Centers with Large/Campus-scale program leadership.
• Demonstrated leadership ability in dealing with external partners and internal stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of prime contracts including…