Senior Manager, Data Center Facilities Development

Based in Thailand and aligned with JAPAC delivery priorities, the Senior Manager, Data Center Facilities Development provides hands-on leadership for complex data center construction, expansion, retrofit, and customer-driven projects. The role establishes clear project controls, manages risks and dependencies, and ensures facilities are ready to support business, network, commissioning, and operational requirements.

The successful candidate will bring 8–10 years of construction, project delivery, or facility-development experience, ideally within data centers or other mission-critical environments. They must have demonstrated experience managing and developing people, as well as strong capabilities in construction delivery, project controls, stakeholder management, safety, quality, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of data center facility development projects, including new builds, expansions, retrofits, and customer-driven work.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, readiness gates, budgets, risks, dependencies, and recovery actions.
• Ensure delivery aligns with business commitments, including Early Access, RFS, energisation, network readiness, commissioning, and customer turn-up.
• Establish disciplined governance across schedule, cost, change control, quality, risk, contractor performance, and handover.
• Partner with Real Estate/Facilities Development, Design, Network, Commissioning, Operations, PMO, Contracts, QS, Procurement, contractors, consultants, and customers.
• Identify and resolve critical-path constraints, delivery risks, and cross-functional dependencies; escalate material issues with clear recommendations.
• Champion compliance with applicable safety, site, company, and local regulatory requirements.
• Drive quality assurance, inspections, defect management, system completion, commissioning readiness, and operational handover.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop Construction Managers, Project Managers, and project-controls personnel.
• Plan team capacity and resource allocation to support the Thailand delivery pipeline and changing business priorities.
• Implement consistent delivery practices, reporting rhythms, templates, and lessons learned across the local team.
• Provide accurate, concise, and timely delivery reporting to country and regional leadership.