Senior Project Manager - Data Centers

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

As a Senior Project Manager, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with our customers through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

• Manage technical projects in a rapidly changing industry of data centers at multiple scales
• Deliver data center facility from start to commissioning and understand the nuances and risks that will need to be managed.
• Manage a large, site-wide data center construction and delivery organization, managing scopes related to construction projects or capital improvement projects.
• Manage and coordinate the needs of multiple partner teams, while managing changes and maintaining a focus on keeping the project on schedule, budget, quality, and safety.
• Establish and maintain various delivery models and global relationships with multiple vendors.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 -15 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with technical teams, project management, engineering, and construction of data centers / mission critical / high risk facilities.
• Experience with data center equipment/environments (e.g., civil/structural, electrical switchgear, generators, chillers, security monitoring).
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to support vendor and contractor management in this region; Arabic is an added advantage.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Architectural, Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical field.
• Certification in Construction manager, Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus
• 10 years of experience managing multi-group/disciplinary construction projects $100M+ with civil, architectural, electrical, mechanical, controls, security monitoring, fire safety, networking/fiber, server equipment, systems, and infrastructure.
• Experience in requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, and scheduling and achieving objectives within set goals.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and an understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry, and pursuit of industry leading practices.
• Knowledge of fast track design build processes.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.