Vice President – Data Center Construction
Blattner
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $260,830 - $378,204 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Establish and execute the strategy for Blattner’s data center division, including market positioning, service offerings, geographic expansion, and growth targets.
- Demonstrates strategic leadership, manages complexity, and drives collaboration across the enterprise to advance Blattner’s basics, values, mission, and desired end states.
- Develop and maintain senior-level relationships with hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center clients, developers, and partners.
- Build and lead a data center construction organization, including preconstruction, project management, field operations, quality, safety, and commissioning coordination.
- Oversee delivery of large-scale, mission-critical data center projects.
- Ensure rigorous cost control, schedule certainty, risk management, and change management practices tailored to data center construction.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier leadership and technical talent with deep data center experience while reinforcing Blattner’s culture and commitment to excellence.
- Partner with finance, legal, and risk teams to structure contracts, manage exposure, and ensure disciplined execution of complex delivery models.
- Own division-level P&L performance, forecasting, and margin accountability for the data center construction business.
- Champion a world-class safety culture, ensuring compliance with all regulatory, client, and company standards.
- Ensure quality systems meet the high reliability and uptime requirements of mission-critical facilities.
- Promote innovation in construction methods, prefabrication, modularization, and commissioning readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, or a related field
- Fifteen or more years of experience in large-scale construction, with significant leadership experience in data center, mission-critical, or complex infrastructure construction.
- Experience delivering projects for hyperscale, colocation, or enterprise data center clients.
- Demonstrated success managing large, complex teams and multi-project portfolios.
- Proven track record of building or scaling a data center business, division, or major market segment.
- Familiarity with energy parks and renewable integration is a plus.
Benefits
- 100% employer paid HDHP insurance premiums for employees
- 401(k) with company match
- HSA and FSA options
- Dental and Vision insurance
- Education Assistance (Tuition Reimbursement)
- Work/Life balance
- Employee/Family focused culture
- Gym on site
- And more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data center constructionproject managementcost controlrisk managementchange managementquality systemsprefabricationmodularizationcommissioningP&L performance
Soft Skills
strategic leadershipcollaborationrelationship managementteam managementtalent developmentinnovation promotionsafety culturecommunicationcomplexity managementdiscipline
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in construction managementBachelor's degree in Engineering