Associate Commissioning Owners Representative - Data Centres (Finland)

-; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm is seeking a Project Manager to oversee Commissioning processes for multiple projects. The role involves coordination with stakeholders and general contractors, ensuring deliverables align with quality standards. Candidates should have extensive knowledge of large-scale technical projects, ideally in data centres, and be prepared for significant international travel. This role aims to create sustainable solutions and improve quality of life globally.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of large-scale technical projects and construction techniques.
• Experience working on data centre new builds and refurbishments, ideally hyperscale.
• Strong team player focused on improving quality of life.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Commissioning process from start to close out.
• Coordinate activities with stakeholders and general contractors.
• Attend various project meetings to ensure successful commissioning.

Skills

Understanding of large-scale technical projects

Ability to manage technical disciplines

Experience in data centre projects

Willingness to travel internationally

Job description

Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

The role will be responsible for the Project Management of the Commissioning process from the project's commencement to its close out.

Working with stakeholders, general contractors, commissioning agents and architect/engineering consultants, the role will lead, coordinate, track and drive all parties’ activities to deliver a well‑managed and successful conclusion to the commissioning process.

The scope of service will not be limited to just one project but will support multiple projects of various sizes and at different stages.

Location and travel

You can be based either 100% in country, or there will be significant international travel to Finland.

Role accountabilities

Include but not limited to:

Design

• Review the design at key stages and make comments in connection with its suitability for commissioning.
• Attend design page turns at key stages.
• Review the specification commissioning clauses and support in their drafting.

Procurement

• Review tender documents and trade packages prior to issue to ensure the scope of services/works being tendered are suitable to support the project’s commissioning requirements.
• Review fee proposal and trade contractor’s tender returns prior to appointment to ensure the offers are compliant and satisfactorily support the project’s commissioning requirements.

Meetings

• Attend Quality Kick Off Meeting.
• Provide leadership support for the site quality induction and observe/audit the delivery to ensure it is in alignment with client requirements.
• Attend daily startup meetings and chair daily/weekly commissioning meetings.
• Attend the weekly quality meeting.
• Progress meeting to report out on commissioning status.
• As required, attend site MEP coordination meetings, pull planning meetings, first of kind meetings, preparatory meetings, design review meetings and any other project coordinator level meetings.

Reporting

• Generate a commissioning dashboard that captures stats and data, metric assessment and other quality/commissioning weekly reports and significant quality/commissioning events.
• Provide data in connection with commission progress for the monthly DC stat report.
• Help transfer lessons learned information from site team to site team.

Qualifications & Experience

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• An in-depth understanding of large-scale technical projects and construction techniques.
• Ability to manage technical disciplines.
• Experience working on data centre new build and refurbishment projects, preferably on hyperscale builds, would be advantageous.
• Ability to commit to significant international travel.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximise the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.