Manager, Virtual Design & Construction

Job Type : Manager, Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) |  Location: Texas |  Department:  Innovation |  Reporting to:  Chief Innovation Officer |  Work Location Type: #remote

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN ’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC.

The Manager, VDC will establish and lead IREN 's corporate Virtual Design & Construction function — defining the company-wide strategy, standards, and digital delivery framework through which BIM, model-based coordination, and data-rich design processes are applied across IREN 's data center portfolio. This is a corporate enablement role: it sets the standards, tools, and workflows that every project follows, and supports the project teams who directly oversee VDC activities on their builds — equipping them to deliver coordinated, constructible models and ensuring lessons learned flow back into company-wide standards. The role sits within the Innovation organization and supports its mission of compressing design and delivery timelines through digital, model-first methods.

With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in. Responsibilities
Corporate VDC Strategy & Standards

- Define and own IREN 's enterprise VDC roadmap —establishingBIM execution plans, modeling standards, level-of-development (LOD) requirements, naming conventions, and quality benchmarks that create consistency across all projects, consultants, and contractors.

- Develop governance for how design partners, general contractors, and trade partners author, exchange, and federate models — embedding VDC requirements into contracts, RFPs, and consultant agreements so digital deliverables are enforceable and consistent.

- Standardize the transition of model data across the project lifecycle, from early concept through detailed design, fabrication, construction, commissioning, and handover to operations — ensuring the model remains the single sourceof truth at each stage.

Project Team Support & VDC Enablement

- Support the project teams who directly oversee VDC activities on each build — providing guidance, templates, and best practices for federated model management, clash detection and resolution, constructability reviews, and coordination cadences, without duplicating their day-to-day oversight role.

- Advise project teams on model-based quantity takeoff, sequencing (4D), and cost integration (5D) where these materially improve estimating accuracy, schedule certainty, and procurement timing.

- Support prefabrication and modular construction initiatives by helping teams ensure models are developed to fabrication-level detail where required, enabling off-site manufacturing partners to build directly from coordinated model data.

- Provide hands-on escalation support on complex coordination challenges,settingthe technical bar for what well-executed VDC looks like at IREN .

Technology, Tools & Data Integration

- Own the corporate VDC technology stack — evaluating, selecting, and administering authoring, federation, coordination, and common data environment (CDE) platforms, and managing licensing, access, and vendor relationships.

- Integrate model data with adjacent systems — project controls, document management, GIS, asset management, and digital twin initiatives — so design data flows into construction management and long-term operations without manual rework.

- Monitor emerging capabilitiesin reality capture, automated clash resolution, generative design, and AI-assi