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Senior Project Manager - Data Centre Construction
North West (hybrid working - or remote with travel)
Competitive salary + car allowance & benefits
Full-time permanent position


Company overview

Our client, a leading global real estate and infrastructure consultancy, is committed to making a positive impact. With several offices in the North West and other key UK cities, they collaborate with various high-profile and long-term clients across a diverse range of sectors.

Their passion lies in delivering exceptional outcomes, enabling their employees to reach their full potential, and contributing to the creation of a sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous world where opportunities are accessible to all.

They provide independent advice and utilise innovative technology to enhance performance and safeguard the commercial interests of their clients engaging in real estate, infrastructure, and natural resource investment programmes. By investing heavily in bespoke technology, they remain at the forefront of digital innovation, ensuring optimal solutions for their clients.


The role

They are now seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their Project Management team in their Manchester office to grow their data centre offering, as well as lead on a major data centre project.

Later projects and opportunities include other large hyperscale data centres, advanced manufacturing facilities, and large life sciences projects. You will be joining the company's fastest growing sector with a strong pipeline of work and some of the best major projects in the region. This role is offering a fantastic opportunity for future career growth due to the expansion of the business and the sector. If desired, there is a later opportunity to relocate internationally with a best in class employee relocation programme. 

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive individual to take responsibility for providing all services relating to project management across the region, and will be responsible for a team of Project Managers, leading on a flagship data centre project.

Main purpose of the role;

• To lead and coordinate project activities, ensuring good communication and adherence to governance processes.
• To understand, anticipate, inform and deliver great outcomes for their clients, every time, everywhere, through your team.
• To drive exceptional delivery, health & safety, commercial, risk management and quality performance throughout the project lifecycle.
• To develop a team of Project Management professionals with a strong pipeline of work.
• Lead the team and grow the business unit by attracting talent and delivering great outcomes for a busy set of clients.

Key accountabilities;

• Helping to establish the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout the project.
• Overseeing project planning, including producing the detailed project plan.
• Understanding and ability to critique technical drawings for MEP designs.
• Overseeing the procurement of resources on a project.
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques.
• Managing the change control process.
• Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Preparing formal project progress and other reports.
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Business development to include;

• Identifying opportunities to develop new business with new and existing clients.
• Assisting in the production of bid documentation.
• Financial management - ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilising FMS in order to monitor a project’s financial status.

The candidate

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in a consultancy or data centre construction and demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

Desired experience includes;

• Construction or engineering related degree or a similar construction or engineering related qualification with extensive technical delivery experience in a similar role gained within a consultancy, developer or client side organisation.
• Experience of delivering data centre construction projects (or comparable sectors).
• Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Must have construction experience and the right to work in the UK.

Our client want their people to succeed both in work and life. To support this they promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. They are an equal opportunity employer who celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

For more information and confidential conversation about the role please apply now by submitting your CV or contact Chelsea Fox at Tempest Jones direct.

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