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Our hyperscale-inspired and industrial-scale platform provides a secure, scalable, and sustainable home for cutting-edge compute solutions.\nDesign and Construction at Kao Data is the engine behind our high-performance digital infrastructure. Our multidisciplinary team integrates architectural design, structural engineering, and advanced construction methodologies to deliver hyperscale data centres with precision and speed. Leveraging BIM, modular construction, and sustainable design principles, we optimise every phase - from concept to commissioning. It’s a dynamic environment for professionals who thrive on technical complexity, innovation, and delivering mission-critical facilities that power the future of AI and cloud computing.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for two Delivery Managers to act as ambassadors for Kao Data, representing the business across all aspects of development and project delivery.\nThe roles have a broad remit, encompassing commercial management, procurement and project management activities to support the successful delivery and optimisation of complex data centre projects. The Delivery Managers will be responsible for leading and managing design, pre-construction and construction activities across multiple projects,\nKey Responsibilities\nGeneral project administration duties including good general project management housekeeping: Review project documentation, ensure appropriate documentation is being correctly administered and maintained on corporate documents control systems (e.g. SharePoint, Aconex, or similar) and identify and resolve and issues or gaps.\nReview project processes, ensure appropriate approvals are obtained and procedures are being followed and identify any issues / gaps.\nThe end-to-end delivery management of multiple data centre projects and maintain updated budgets, schedules, and status reports for each\nCreate and communicate updates on development program & project status monthly suitable for executive level reviews. Effectively present information in a manner to support efficient decision making.\nWork with Kao stakeholders, design, and construction teams to create a master development program for site(s), including a complete campus design solution and capital budget including with the strategic procurement team on equipment procurement and delivery process\nImplement and manage multi-phased site development plans to achieve time, budget, and quality standards in a predictable fashion. Continuously update a campus comprehensive plan to provide predictable statistics in a dynamic environment.\nThe timely collation of the client brief required for the project inclusive of time and cost constraints.\nResponsibility for the programme planning which outlines the required workstreams needed to set up the project and management of said SME workstreams, including mapping their dependencies.\nMonitor & create project budget / cost-to-date against overall project budget.\nCollation and Development of the scope documents required to appoint the appropriate external professional service teams on the project.\nLead, manage and monitor performance of the professional services teams and contractors for design, construction, commissioning services & participate in procurement and project cost estimates and advise on appropriate solutions to best meet the dynamic aims and objectives of a programme driven by changing customer demands in line with Kao’s governance and delivery process.\nLead weekly internal stakeholder design and construction meetings reviewing project progress and external professional services and contractor performance and key decisions required from internal stakeholders.\nEvaluate and level pricing proposals for design, construction, and commissioning services\nAct as the conduit between the project team and corporate insurance brokers ensuring liabilities are appropriate and aligned with any funding agreements and relevant notices are provided to insurers in a timely manner.\nMonitor environmental, energy-efficiency and sustainability goals through-out the project life- cycle.\nEnsure appropriate submittals are coordinated with site stakeholders including appropriate site access requirements. This includes establishing site construction security procedures in conjunction with site security team\nEnsuring all data centre deployments are executed in accordance with the Kao Data business plan and Integrated Management System (IMS) with a focus on the Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety, Information Security and Quality Standards.\nTesting & Acceptance: Plan and execute a rigorous testing program to ensure the facility functions as designed and meets the expectations of Operations and customers.\nTransition: Facilitate the hand-off of the project to site operations, ensuring all customer requirements are accommodated.\nWhat We’re Looking For:\nExtensive experience in construction practices and procedures, including management of Lump Sum, Construction Management, and Design & Build project delivery methods from conceptual development through procurement to close out.\nAbility and willingness to travel\nExperience with Microsoft Office suite, specifically PowerPoint for use in communicating program updates to executive level, and Excel to create and maintain site program & individual project budgets when preparing and delivering internal stakeholder focused presentations to support strategic planning and capital allocation programmes.\nBachelor’s degree in science or engineering or equivalent professional experience is preferable.\nMBA, master’s in engineering, Management, or related field desirable\nExperience with delivery of mission critical data center facilities.\nExperience with management of MEP trades.\nSpecialist knowledge and relevant sector experience. Can effectively acquire, apply and impart industry specific specialist, commercial, procurement, programme and cost management professional knowledge to the Delivery team.\nWhy Kao Data?\nBe part of an innovative and rapidly growing AI data centre leader.\nOpportunities for professional growth and leadership development.\nWork in a dynamic and collaborative environment.\nEngaging team events that strengthen workplace culture and connections\nPrivate Medical - private health insurance including dental and optical cover.\nHoliday - 25 days annual leave plus UK Bank Holidays\nPension - Salary Sacrifice Pension\nParental Leave - Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave\nLife Assurance & Income Protection\nMental health support - 24/7 access to mental health support via our employee assistance programme, and a trained team of Mental Health First Aiders\nGiving back - 2 Charity volunteering days a year.\nElectric Vehicle - Salary Sacrifice Scheme\nOptical Benefit\nAccess to Unum’s Help@Hand","description_format":"text","description_chars":7025,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Centers & Colocation","High-Performance Computing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-19T09:54:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":18,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.524,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":56,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:10","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kao-data-delivery-manager-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kao-data-delivery-manager-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T16:48:35Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1325,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":51597},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=51597"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkao-data-delivery-manager-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkao-data-delivery-manager-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkao-data-delivery-manager-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kao-data-delivery-manager-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkao-data-delivery-manager-2"}]}