Director, Data Center Facilities Development JAPAC

The Director Data Center Facilities Development JAPAC is accountable for the

regional strategy, governance, and execution of new data center builds,

expansions, retrofits, and capacity upgrades across JAPAC. The role leads a

regional delivery team and works closely with Real Estate, Design, Network,

Commissioning, Operations, contractors, utilities, and customers to deliver

scalable, reliable, mission-critical facilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1) Facilities Development Leadership (JAPAC Portfolio)

Own end-to-end facilities development outcomes across JAPAC programs, including

new data center builds, expansions, retrofits, capacity upgrades, and

customer-driven delivery.

Establish and maintain clear delivery governance: milestones, readiness gates,

reporting cadence, and executive decision forums.

Ensure delivery plans align with business commitments, including capacity

availability, early access, energisation, network readiness, commissioning, and

customer turn-up.

2) Regional Process & Standardization

Implement and continuously improve regional facilities development processes

covering program management, change control, risk, cost, QA/QC, commissioning

readiness, and operational handover.

Standardise operating rhythms: weekly program cycle, critical path tracking,

trend reporting, and issue escalation.

Build repeatable toolsets and templates, including dashboards, site-readiness

checklists, handover packs, commissioning-readiness plans, and risk registers.

3) Program Governance & Controls

Drive disciplined schedule, risk, and dependency management across multiple

parallel projects.

Lead critical path intervention and recovery planning when needed (acceleration

plans, resource smoothing, constraint removal).

Ensure strong management of change, claims exposure, procurement interfaces, and

commercial discipline in partnership with PMO, Contracts, and Quantity Surveying

teams.

4) Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management

Align Facilities Development with Real Estate, Design, Network, Commissioning,

and Operations to ensure integrated planning, capacity delivery, and operational

readiness.

Act as the senior point of contact for facilities development execution across

internal leadership, colocation partners, consultants, general contractors,

utilities, and customers.

Lead executive-level communication—clear, concise, data-driven reporting with

recommended actions/decisions.

5) Safety, Quality, and Readiness

Champion a “safety-first” culture and ensure compliance with regional and site

safety requirements.

Drive quality assurance practices, including inspections, defect management,

systems completion, integrated testing, and commissioning readiness.

Ensure consistent handover, documentation, and site standards across the

transition from construction to commissioning and operations.

6) Team Leadership & Capability Building

Lead and develop a high-performing regional facilities development team,

including Construction Managers, Project Managers, PMO, and program controls

professionals.

Build regional capacity plans and resource strategies that match the JAPAC data

center development pipeline.

Coach leaders to improve communication, stakeholder engagement, and disciplined

execution.

Success Measures (KPIs)

Delivery performance: capacity and milestone attainment, early access and RFS

performance, schedule trend stability, and critical-path reliability.

Safety: incident rates, audit outcomes, and safety culture indicators.

Quality and readiness: defect closure rates, commissioning and

integrated-testing gates passed, handover-pack completeness, and operational

acceptance.

Governance: on-time reporting, accurate forecasting, effective

escalations/decision turnaround.

Process maturity: adoption of the regional facilities development system,

measurable cycle-time reductions, and fewer recurring delivery issues.

Required Experience & Qualifications

12+ years of construction, facilities development, or program delivery

experience, ideally in mission-critical environments such as data centers,

critical infrastructure, industrial, pharmaceutical, aviation, or utilities.

Proven leadership delivering multi-project data center or critical-facility

portfolios across JAPAC. Experience in Singapore and/or Australia is highly

valued.

Strong understanding of the full data center development lifecycle: site and

utility interfaces, design coordination, construction execution, commissioning,

integrated testing, and operational handover.

Demonstrated capability building scalable processes, governance frameworks, and

delivery teams across multiple markets.

Exceptional stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.

Familiarity with contract/commercial management and schedule/cost controls.

Preferred

Experience delivering hyperscale, colocation, or enterprise data center

programs.

Knowledge of data center commissioning, integrated systems testing, and

operational-readiness gating.

Experience working with colocation or partner delivery models, utilities, and

integrated network and customer dependencies.

Key Skills & Competencies

Strategic leadership and execution focus: able to set direction and drive

facilities development outcomes.

Program governance and schedule discipline; familiarity with P6 or MS Project is

a plus.

Strong risk, dependency, and escalation management.

High EQ, executive communication, and cross-cultural leadership across JAPAC

markets.

Process improvement mindset (Lean/continuous improvement experience beneficial).

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