Deployment Strategy Lead

Meta is seeking an experienced professional to join our North America Infra Data Center team and DEC Engineering - Capacity and Deployment Strategy organization as a Global Deployment Strategy Lead. The successful candidate will join a team of highly skilled and experienced construction professionals with knowledge and expertise in many areas of project development and planning, with core responsibilities in cost, schedule, constructability and commercial risk, and a particular area of expertise around Construction Management in Hyperscale Data Centers or Industrial Settings. Industry knowledge and relationships will be leveraged to enrich the in-house Meta team with historic industry performance, current trends, emerging risks to influence early development strategy and pre-construction plan for new data center product types globally. The selected candidate will have experience working as a highly functioning, highly competent construction expert with the ability to collaborate across functional teams, and have a broad knowledge in the construction industry, especially as related to cost, schedule, constructibility, and commercial risk management strategy with a focus on DC Constructability issues.

• Build strong relationships and consistent communications with the leads of the multiple XFN teams and ICs.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment by leveraging core competencies to meaningfully contribute to collective success of your team and the broader cross functional teams essential to successful new region and new product development.
• Deep knowledge of construction means and methods and phasing and sequencing of work in the hyperscale data center market or industrial setting with the ability to evaluate different options and strategies and the trade-offs associated with the application of various solutions. Inform decision making around constructability issues with a perspective on cost, schedule and commercial risk implications.
• Provide a clean transition of a new region new product development from DEC Engineering to DEC Design and Delivery teams. Include pre-populated list of deliverables documenting the development process and key decision history to hand off to Delivery Preconstruction Manager prior to Delivery and Design Kick Off (DDKO) which is the milestone hand off and transition from DEC Eng to DEC Design and Delivery.
• This position requires development of strong relationships with managers and ICs across Infra and DEC including key stakeholders from Engineering New Product Design and Integration, Delivery Pre-construction, Design Center of Excellence, Site Selection, Energy, Water, Policy and Strategic Planning and Analytics as well as select Supply Chain Partners.
• Close collaboration with the DEC Estimating team and Scheduling teams in Delivery and Tech Ops is required to meet detailed delivery of essential work products related to cost and schedule.
• The team will have the Ability to understand the big picture, goals and values of the New Product types. Differentiate between “must haves” and “nice to haves” and ability to push back and challenge internal partners to accomplish the agreed upon goal. The team will also provide detailed constructibility reviews in multiple stages of the project to influence the design to build safer, more predictably, efficiently and cost effectively.
• Closely working in collaboration with the Engineering Product Development and Integration team to develop new data center building product types and solutions. Leverage cost, schedule and constructibility expertise to influence engineering strategy by providing “real time” feedback on cost, schedule and constructibility to inform target pricing, develop value engineering, inform trade-off evaluations and financial TCO/NPV analysis, ROI analysis, and other models that will be used to inform leadership decision making.

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering or equivalent technical degree and minimum of fifteen years direct professional experience in Commercial Management, Preconstruction, Construction Management, Engineering, Scheduling or equivalent.
• Data Center experience and expertise specifically related to cost, schedule, constructability and commercial risk management.
• Expertise with hyper-scale data center projects, large capital programs, ground-up construction, greenfield site development and retrofit work with experience in building means and methods, mechanical systems, electrical systems and connectivity.
• Experience collaborating, influencing, and in leadership.
• Proficiency in main aspects of Preconstruction Planning including Budget Development, Target Pricing, Value engineering, Scheduling, Critical Path analysis, Constructability and Commercial Risk Management and an emphasis on Construction Knowledge and Expertise
• Constructability experience to leverage knowledge on building types, means and methods, industry practices, phasing of work, durations, concurrency, critical path analysis, commissioning and risk identification and analysis.
• The candidate is a domain expert with knowledge and experience to influence programmatic strategy at the early stages of new region and new product development that will serve as the foundation for successful project execution.

• Professional Engineers license in mechanical, electrical or civil engineering or an advanced degree , and/or certification in Project Management or Scheduling.
• Field experience on an active large scale data center or industrial project with core responsibilities around delivering the project through the direction of on-site construction activities and accountability to cost, schedule, safety and risk management