Zerra develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses across Australia, Japan and India, delivering capacity at scale into markets driven by the growth of cloud and AI.

Zerra's versatile campus developments support hyperscale and neocloud organisations, enabling some of the world's fastest-scaling technology businesses to grow with certainty and ambition.

At Zerra, we empower exceptional people to challenge convention, drive innovation and make a real impact in digital infrastructure. Our culture fuses entrepreneurial agility with global expertise, enabling our teams to deliver results that matter.

We believe that diverse perspectives, inclusive leadership and equitable opportunities are essential to building stronger teams and better outcomes. We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels respected, supported and empowered to thrive.

Zerra is part of AGP, an independently owned investor and asset manager that develops and operates real assets across the energy, digital and real estate sectors.

Western Downs Digital Park

Western Downs Digital Park (WDDP) is a master‑planned digital and energy precinct in regional Queensland, developed and operated by Zerra. Planned across multiple delivery phases, WDDP brings together AI‑ready data centres, energy infrastructure and a purpose‑built campus environment.

Located close to major power infrastructure within the Western Downs Special Industry Area, WDDP represents a major investment in Queensland's digital future and an opportunity to help deliver the critical infrastructure supporting the continued growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Job Description

The Commercial Leader – WDDP owns cost, commercial,



and capital governance for the whole WDDP campus — both the leased building currently in construction and the pre‑construction pipeline of remaining digital park infrastructure and future buildings. This role gives the Executive Project Director one coherent, trustworthy view of cost and commercial exposure across every stage the campus is simultaneously in.

This role owns the campus‑wide cost plan and commercial governance framework, contract and change management for construction‑phase spend, and the consolidated cost and risk reporting that reaches the Executive Project Director. It does not own capital allocation or investment decisions for WDDP, which sit with Finance and ExCom, and it does not own delivery decisions for the leased building itself, which sit with the Construction Delivery Lead — reflecting the matrix reporting line into Capital Project Controls, APAC, that governs cost discipline consistently across Zerra’s portfolio.

Scope spans the full campus lifecycle: cost and contract management for the leased building through construction and handover, and cost planning for the remaining digital park and future buildings through masterplanning, design, permitting, and procurement toward their own eventual financial close. The role is the primary cost and commercial interface for the Executive Project Director, the Planning Leader, Construction Delivery Lead, Legal, and Finance,



and works daily with GC and OSE vendors on progress claims, variations, and contract administration for the leased building.

Success is a campus where cost surprises don’t happen at the ExCom review — where variance is caught, explained, and escalated the month it occurs regardless of which building it comes from, where each future building’s cost plan is disciplined enough to support its own financial close, and where the cost plan remains a tool leadership can actually rely on rather than a document that gets revised after the fact.

Responsibilities

Safety Leadership (Injury & Incident Free)

- Ensure cost and commercial pressure never becomes a reason to defer or dilute safety‑related scope in contractor negotiations, on the leased building or on any future building.
- Support the project safety function by ensuring safety‑related contract obligations (inductions, EHS reporting requirements) are captured and enforced through contract administration.
- Flag any contractor cost‑cutting proposal that could compromise safety standards before it is considered.
- Model safety‑first behaviour in all site visits and contractor meetings.
- Ensure safety incident costs, where they arise, are transparently reported rather than absorbed or hidden within general variance.

Development & Capital Integration

- Own and maintain the campus‑wide cost plan across each capex stage‑phase, covering the leased building’s construction spend and every future building’s pre‑construction cost planning.
- Provide consolidated monthly cost reporting to the Executive Project Director and Finance, including forecast‑to‑complete and variance analysis against approved budgets across the campus.
- Translate progra

📌 Commercial Leader (Western Downs Regional)
🏢 Zerra DC
📍 Western Downs Regional