Nordscale Operations
Site Director
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About Nordscale
Nordscale is the specialist operator for mission-critical AI data centres. We manage the operations that keep AI compute sites running reliably, efficiently, and safely. Founded as a strategic partnership between the AI hyperscaler Nscale and Norwegian energy company Nordkraft, we harness local expertise and data centre operations experience to deliver service excellence to our customers, while building skilled local jobs and partnering with Norwegian businesses to create lasting value in the regions where we work.
Our culture combines local Northern Norwegian values, international expertise, and disciplined operational excellence. We’re a team built on trust, ownership, and collaboration: we communicate openly, take accountability for outcomes, and work as one team across sites, partners, and functions to deliver performance people can depend on.
About The Role (Job Purpose)
We are seeking an exceptional Site Director to lead Nscale’s AI Gigafactory campus in Narvik, currently comprising two buildings for a total of 100Mw with future expansions in construction. As the most senior leader on site, you will have overall responsibility for the performance, culture, operational effectiveness and continued development of one of the world’s most significant AI infrastructure environments.
The Site Director will provide leadership across the entire campus, with the Facility Director reporting directly into the role. You will ensure that operational, technical and business teams operate as one organisation, with clear priorities, strong accountability and a relentless focus on safe and reliable delivery.
This is broader than a traditional data centre leadership position. You will act as the senior representative of the business in Narvik, creating an environment in which teams can perform at their best while balancing the requirements of our customer, employees, partners and the wider organisation.
Operating in an environment of exceptional scale, complexity and pace, you will need to be comfortable leading through significant growth and continuous change. You will have the judgement and authority to make important decisions quickly while balancing operational risk, commercial priorities and long-term business objectives.
The role would suit an established data centre leader or a highly accomplished senior executive from another complex corporate, infrastructure, technology, industrial or mission-critical environment.
What You’ll Be Doing (Responsibilities)
- Provide overall leadership and accountability for the Narvik AI Gigafactory, setting the direction, priorities and operating culture for the campus.
- Own the site’s annual operating budget of approximately 200MNOK p.a., ensuring disciplined financial management, effective cost control and appropriate allocation of resources while maintaining the safety, reliability and performance of the campus. Lead budget planning, forecasting and performance reviews, working closely with Finance and functional leaders to manage expenditure and identify opportunities for operational and commercial efficiency.
- Lead the Facility Director and site-based corporate functions, creating strong alignment between critical facilities operations and the wider business.
- Ensure the campus operates safely, reliably and effectively, maintaining appropriate oversight of operational performance, risk, compliance and business continuity.
- Build a high-performance site culture based on accountability, collaboration, resilience and continuous improvement, developing a strong leadership team capable of operating at significant scale.
- Act as the senior site representative for our customer, partners and key stakeholders, building trusted relationships and ensuring commitments are understood and delivered.
- Lead the organisation through rapid growth and change, ensuring new capacity, teams and operating models are successfully integrated as the AI Gigafactory develops.
- Line management of the Community Engagement Manager and support them to carry out their duties in the community.
- Provide executive oversight of significant site issues and incidents, ensuring decisions are made quickly, risks are appropriately balanced and clear leadership is maintained during high-pressure situations.
- Partner with executive and central leadership on strategy, workforce planning, investment and organisational development, ensuring Narvik’s priorities remain aligned with the wider business.
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About You (Skills, Qualifications & Experience)
Key Characteristics
- Resilient leader – comfortable operating under pressure, navigating ambiguity and maintaining clear leadership during challenging situations.
- Decisive with sound judgement – demonstrated ability to make quick yet balanced decisions, considering immediate operational needs alongside longer-term consequences.
- Adaptable and open to change – energised by growth and comfortable leading an organisation whose scale, structure and priorities will continue to evolve.
- Visible and authentic – actively engages with teams across the site and creates trust through clear, consistent leadership.
- Enterprise-minded – able to look beyond individual functions and make decisions in the best interests of the overall organisation.
- High accountability – establishes clear expectations, empowers leaders and takes ownership for overall site performance.
- Collaborative and influential – capable of bringing together technical, operational and corporate teams around shared objectives.
- Calm under pressure – provides stability, direction and confidence during critical events and periods of significant change.
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Skills & Qualifications
- Significant senior leadership experience within data centres, technology, critical infrastructure, energy, industrial operations or a complex international corporate environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading large, multidisciplinary organisations through significant growth, transformation or operational change.
- Data centre or mission-critical operational experience is highly desirable; alternatively, candidates must demonstrate substantial executive leadership experience within a complex, high-performance environment.
- Proven experience leading senior functional leaders and building high-performing leadership teams across both operational and corporate disciplines.
- Strong understanding of operational governance, risk management, health and safety, business continuity and organisational performance.
- Experience managing senior customer, partner and executive stakeholder relationships within commercially significant environments.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience contributing to budgets, investment decisions, workforce planning and business strategy.
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the credibility to operate effectively from the site floor through to executive and board-level stakeholders.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary negotiable for the right candidate
- Performance-based bonus tied to results and company performance
- Opportunity to contribute in a high-growth, performance-driven environment
- Relocation package if required
Equal Opportunities Statement
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
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