Senior Project Manager (MEP) - Data Centres

Overview

As a Senior Project Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Lead the planning and delivery of complex data centre fit-out projects, managing programme, dependencies and resources
• Define the project delivery strategy and provide clear advice to the client
• Manage the project team and coordinate consultants, contractors and specialist suppliers
• Manage the building contract, including instructions, change control, contractor submissions and the assessment of programme impacts
• Maintain a regular site presence to verify progress, review quality and resolve delivery issues
• Act as the key link between the client, technical teams and senior leadership, managing expectations and driving decisions
• Report on project status, programme, cost, risks and actions required
• Develop mitigation strategies for significant project risks
• Promote the Linesight safety culture and monitor compliance with project and regulatory requirements
• Improve project management processes and support other teams across the portfolio
• Mentor junior project managers and build team capability
• Capture lessons learned and apply them to future projects.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have substantial experience managing MEP works on complex construction projects, ideally including data centres
• Understand major mechanical and electrical systems, how they interface on site, and the steps needed to commission and hand them over
• Are comfortable spending time on site, checking progress and quality, and working with the team to resolve issues
• Can lead project teams, manage client relationships and communicate clearly with both technical specialists and senior stakeholders. Thrive on building strong relationships with a sense of openness and fun
• Have experience managing programmes, risks, change and commercial matters
• Hold a relevant engineering or construction qualification, or have equivalent practical experience
• Have experience project managing on a data centre project
• Have a project management professional certification or are seeking one. We can help!
• Are detail oriented and quality focused
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!

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