[Hiring] Vice President, Pre-Construction @5C Data Centers USA, Inc.

Role Description

The Vice President, Pre-Construction architects and builds the lean function that converts authorized data center projects into executable construction plans and documented ready-to-build (R2B) handoffs. This leader integrates constructability, construction phasing, design and permit readiness, utilities, estimates, schedules, procurement and contractor scope before mobilization. The role directs pre-construction across the portfolio, supports active projects on unresolved pre-construction obligations, and builds repeatable standards, governance and team capability.

What You Will Do

• Pre-Construction Strategy & Functional Leadership:
  • Build the pre-construction operating model, including scope, readiness standards, work-release gates, staffing and escalation paths.
  • Prioritize projects and specialist resources against construction-start dates, customer requirements, readiness risk and authorized pre-construction spend.
• Project Intake & Scope Definition:
  • Receive approved project requirements and documented site, utility and approval constraints; confirm scope, assumptions and open conditions with the responsible upstream functions.
  • Define construction scope boundaries, owner-direct interfaces and package requirements with Engineering, Construction and Procurement; return unresolved upstream items to their accountable owners.
• Power, Utilities & Connectivity Readiness:
  • Integrate documented power, water, wastewater and fiber requirements into construction sequencing, including phased service dates, interconnection work and off-site infrastructure dependencies.
  • Confirm utility scope, access, installation and energization prerequisites with responsible specialists; escalate delivery gaps without assuming ownership of utility feasibility or capacity procurement.
• Construction Permitting & Release Conditions:
  • Coordinate construction permit packages, submissions, approval conditions and release dates with Engineering and responsible specialists; track prerequisites for authorized work packages.
  • Translate existing entitlement conditions and off-site obligations into construction requirements; escalate unresolved approvals to their owners before recommending mobilization.
• Constructability & Technical Coordination:
  • Collaborate in constructability reviews with Engineering, Construction and Technical Program Management.
  • Incorporate cost and schedule implications of buildability and interface gaps involving infrastructure, equipment access, installation sequencing and operational separation; preserve Engineering's design authority.
• Pre-Construction Risk & Readiness Governance:
  • Produce construction-release recommendations stating readiness evidence, alternatives, cost and schedule impacts, residual risks and required approvals.
  • Maintain assumptions, risks, decisions and owner/date actions; revalidate material dependencies before tender, procurement release and construction authorization.
• Construction Phasing, Logistics & Early Works:
  • Develop construction phasing, early-works, site-logistics and labor strategies with Construction; align executable work packages to documented site constraints and delivery milestones.
  • Integrate equipment access, temporary services, installation sequencing, commissioning needs and modular or prefabricated delivery opportunities into execution plans.
• Estimate, Schedule & Procurement Integration:
  • Coordinate scope-complete estimate and milestone inputs with Estimating, Cost Control and Project Controls, including assumptions, allowances, contingency and owner-direct scope.
  • Partner with Procurement on packaging, market engagement and long-lead releases; surface cancellation exposure and prerequisites before commitments.
• Design, Tender & Award Readiness:
  • Align design-release plans, permit packages and tender scope with Engineering, Construction and Procurement; close gaps, exclusions and interface ambiguity.
  • Ensure proposed contractor requirements include integrated scheduling and coordination of utilities, owner-furnished equipment, vendors, commissioning and other affected stakeholders.
• Ready-to-Build Handoff & Execution Support:
  • Lead documented handoff of approved scope, budgets, schedules, permits, utility obligations, procurement status and remaining risks to Construction.
  • Define package-specific release conditions for phased starts; retain ownership of unresolved pre-construction actions without duplicating daily construction management.
• Team Development & Cross-Functional Leadership:
  • Recruit and develop pre-construction leaders; establish clear ownership, specialist coverage, review standards and succession capability.
  • Resolve cross-functional tradeoffs with concise recommendations; communicate readiness limitations and delivery implications candidly to executives and customer-facing teams.
• Lessons Learned & Continuous Improvement:
  • Compare pre-construction assumptions with actual construction, cost, utility and commissioning outcomes; feed findings into future constructability, packaging and readiness standards.
  • Standardize practical checklists, decision records and reporting while removing low-value administration and preserving project-specific judgment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive pre-construction, construction management or complex capital-project leadership, including senior functional or portfolio responsibility.
• Demonstrated leadership of constructability, design and tender readiness, estimate and schedule integration, and construction-readiness reviews for large, multi-phase projects.
• Experience delivering data center or comparable mission-critical infrastructure; able to challenge technical, cost, schedule, procurement and commissioning assumptions.
• Track record building teams and practical processes while supporting active projects in a lean, fast-moving environment.
• Strong executive communication, commercial judgment and cross-functional influence; able to convert incomplete evidence into clear, qualified recommendations.

Benefits

• Build a rewarding career in one of the world's fastest-growing industries.
• Help power the infrastructure behind AI and high-performance computing.
• Your ideas matter - we empower employees to help shape our future.
• Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do.

Company Description

At 5C, we believe great people build great companies. You'll build a rewarding career while helping shape the future of digital infrastructure - one of the fastest-growing industries in the world.

We're more than a workplace - we're a team of builders, innovators, and problem-solvers united by a shared purpose: creating infrastructure that powers the technologies transforming our world. Your voice matters here, and we encourage fresh ideas at every level.