Data Centre Program Construction Manager

Accenture; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an on-site Construction Manager to act as the customer’s senior on-site representative for major data-centre projects in Australia. You will oversee milestone readiness, integrate developer/GC work with customer fit-out, MEPs and commissioning, and manage interfaces among multiple teams.

You will coordinate risk, progress reporting, and health and safety compliance, ensuring turnover readiness and successful project handover to customers.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in large-scale construction projects.
• Experience coordinating with customer/owner in major construction contexts.
• In-depth knowledge of WHS and safety management for high-risk activities.

Responsibilities

• Monitor customer master schedule and readiness for milestones (EFA, FA, RFS).
• Maintain 6–12 week look-ahead; identify constraints on critical paths.
• Coordinate and escalate remedial actions with delivery parties.
• Manage milestone entry/exit criteria and evidence for acceptance.
• Validate construction progress through site inspections.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Safety & compliance

Education

Construction management engineering qualification

Job description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organisations build their digital core, optimise operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services. We deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are committed to creating positive change and delivering value for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Role purpose

The Construction Manager (CM) is the Customer’s senior on-site construction representative, providing independent oversight of construction delivery, milestone readiness and the integration of Developer/GC works with Customer fit-out, MEP systems, commissioning and technology deployment. The CM maintains an integrated view of physical progress, constraints, quality, safety, energisation, commissioning and turnover readiness, with particular focus on achieving contractual/customer milestones.

The CM coordinates and escalates issues across the Customer, Developer, GC, MEP contractors, commissioning teams and Customer delivery teams but does not assume the Developer/GC’s contractual responsibility for design, construction methodology, supervision, quality or commissioning execution.

Responsibilities

Construction and milestone readiness

• Monitor the customer master schedule and readiness for customer milestones such as Early Floor Access (EFA), Floor Access (FA) and Ready for Service (RFS)
• Maintain a rolling 6-12 week look-ahead, identifying constraints and dependencies on critical or near critical path
• Coordination and escalation of remedial actions with the responsible delivery parties
• Manage milestone entry/exit criteria and evidence requirements for milestone acceptance
• Validate reported construction and commissioning progress through regular site inspections

Interface management, commissioning and completions

• Act of the Customer’s primary on-site point of contact with the developer, GC and construction teams
• Support and coordinate interfaces between customer, developer, GC, MEP and commissioning teams
• Coordinate task sequencing where customer fit-out overlaps with final construction and commissioning
• Coordinate construction completion with commissioning sequence and system turnover requirements.
• Monitor construction readiness for energisation and commissioning activities
• Monitor ITP completion, NCRs, defects and punch-list closure affecting milestone readiness
• Verify test records, certifications, as-built information and completions documentation
• Coordinate interfaces between construction, commissioning, customer fit-out and technology deployment
• Support progressive turnover from construction areas to controlled/commissioning/operational environments

Risk and issues management

• Maintain the site CRAID log (change, risk, action, issue and decisions)
• Ensuring every item has a clear owner, due date and path to closure
• Distinguish between customer-owned, Developer-owned and GC-owned actions
• Daily and weekly reviews of critical and overdue items

Customer reporting

• Provide transparent site status and milestone-readiness reporting to Customer leadership
• Represent the Customer’s interests in site meetings and progress reviews
• Maintain independent visibility of QA/QC and commissioning information

Background and experience

• 8 years+ major construction management experience
• Construction management, engineering or equivalent relevant qualification
• Leadership experience representing customer/owner in major construction context
• Experience delivering hyperscale or large-scale data centre facilities
• Knowledge of Australian WHS legislation and construction-site safety management, including high-risk construction work, SWMS, electrical safety, permit-to-work, isolation/LOTO and energisation
• White Card required; Cert IV WHS or equivalent desirable

At Accenture, we are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe that our people are our greatest asset and that diversity of thought, background and experience drives innovation and better outcomes for our clients and communities.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people of all ages.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statementfor Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.