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You will work closely with stakeholders, suppliers, contractors, engineering teams, and cross-functional partners to communicate expectations, track progress, resolve issues, and support successful project completion.\nYou will also monitor key performance indicators during systems testing, identify trends or anomalies, contribute to technical documentation, and help ensure quality and safety standards are followed throughout the project lifecycle.\nThis position is based in Greater Abilene area (Shackelford County, Texas) approximately 20 miles from Abilene. We are open to local to the area or open to relocate to Abilene. Oracle offers competitive relocation packages for eligible candidates. We will also consider candidates from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area who are open to travel over 50%.\nSupport daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.\n\nWork closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.\nMonitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.\nEnsure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.\nIdentify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.\nReinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.\nSupport installation quality verification and help reduce rework.\nPartner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.\nTrack punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.\nProvide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.\nSupport recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.\nSupport Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.\nMaintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.\nQualifications:\n\n6+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.\nExperience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.\nKnowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity\nmonitoring, and milestone execution.\nAbility to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.\nProven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and escalate effectively.\nStrong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.\nAbility to work primarily onsite with approximately 85% field/site engagement.\nStrong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.\nExperience in an owner’s representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.\nFamiliarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.\nExperience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.\nExperience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.\nFamiliarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.\nDisclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. 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