Project Director, Data Centre Construction

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Job Description

We are currently seeking a site based Project Director within a PMC delivery model for a hyperscale data centre construction project. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team integrated within, and reporting to, the client’s regional leadership.

The project is currently at enabling work stage, and relevant experience across the project life cycle is neccesary.

The Project Director will act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that our client objectives are not only met, but exceeded wherever possible and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate high level of quality, sustainability, and safety standards.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and drive performance through design development, permitting and approvals, procurement and ultimately construction.

Key Attributes and Duties:

The individual in this role should have both a strong pre contract and post contract, full life cycle delivery background to specifcally include enabling works. You will show excellent management and interpersonal skills, have an engaging approach and possess a very strong core technical skillset with an understanding of construction, an appreciation of commercial and have contractual awareness.

As the Project Director you will oversee, manage and lead a team providing the following services:

Overall Project Management

Project Controls

Preconstruction Activities

Environmental, Health & Safety Activities

Construction Management

Quality Management

Commercial Management

Claims Management

Procurement

Project Execution Support

Project Close-out

Warranty Management.

Qualifications

Extensive experience delivering major projects and programmes idelaly, but not essentially in the data centre sector

You will have a track record of sucessful delivery on projects of a suitable scale and size in terms of project values -£100 million plus and 100 MW plus

Experience to include Project Director, Construction Director within a PMC, EPCM, Construction Management Environment or as a General Contractor

Proactive, meticulous, self-motivated and hands-on team player

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills essential, ability to communicate well with clients and senior management

Ability to be on site 5 days a week

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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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Department: Real estate