CSA Project Manager - Enabling Works (Site Based)

Arcadis; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is recruiting a CSA Project Manager – Enabling Works to lead client-side oversight for a £10 billion hyperscale data centre campus in Northumberland. You will oversee earthworks, drainage, external works and interfaces across Phases B and C, coordinating planners, substation works and environmental compliance while managing risk and programme delivery.

The role focuses on monitoring progress, coordinating design responses, managing RFIs and ensuring readiness for subsequent construction

Qualifications

• Experience in enabling works, earthworks or large-scale CSA infrastructure delivery.
• Strong knowledge of programme management, permits, planning conditions and interface management.
• Experience with piling platforms, haul roads, drainage and site logistics.
• Ability to monitor contractor delivery without owning means and methods.
• Strong reporting, escalation and stakeholder coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Phase A–C enabling works, coordinate with GC mobilisation for Phase B.
• Manage Phase B enabling works through Feb 2027 and Phase C through Dec 2027.
• Coordinate planning discharges, permitting, and interface with design teams.
• Interface with substation construction, power delivery and adjacent works.
• Monitor contractor performance, programme, quality, environmental compliance and risks.
• Provide risk, change control and progress reporting across enabling works.

Skills

Enabling works delivery

Programme management

Stakeholder coordination

Interface management

Risk and change control

Site coordination

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 34,000 people, in over 30 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.

About The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the delivery team for a major £10 billion hyperscale data centre campus in Northumberland—one of the largest data centre developments in Europe. The development spans approximately 540,000 sqm across 10 data centre buildings and includes significant enabling works, substation construction, and environmental remediation. With enabling works underway and main construction commencing from 2026, this programme represents a transformative investment in the region and will create thousands of jobs. We are seeking a CSA Project Manager – Enabling Works to act as the Employer’s lead for CSA project management across Enabling Works Phase B and C, with a primary focus on earthworks, land remediation, drainage, external works, piling interfaces, logistics, environmental compliance, and construction readiness for subsequent data centre delivery.

The Role

The CSA Project Manager – Enabling Works will oversee key enabling works activities, including:

• Earthworks and land remediation, including Pulverised Flue Ash (PFA) processing
• Site clearance and drainage
• Temporary works interfaces
• Piling mats and piling interfaces
• Access roads and logistics routes
• Planning and permitting interfaces
• Environmental obligations and compliance
• Readiness for future data centre construction activities

This is a client-side oversight and interface management role, focused on monitoring delivery, coordinating stakeholders, and managing risk, programme, compliance, and reporting. The role does not assume responsibility for contractor means and methods, sequencing ownership, or temporary works design.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete Phase A enabling works handover and coordinate with GC mobilisation where relevant to Phase B
• Manage Phase B Enabling Works for DC03 and DC04 through to February 2027, including piling interfaces
• Manage Phase C Enabling Works through to December 2027, including interfaces with DC01 and DC02 construction
• Coordinate planning condition discharge and ongoing permitting requirements
• Interface with substation construction, temporary and permanent power delivery, and adjacent construction activities
• Monitor contractor performance, programme, quality, environmental compliance, and permitting obligations
• Manage progress, risk, change control, and reporting across the enabling works scope
• Coordinate with design consultants on CSA design, RFIs, technical issues, and change management
• Track and support CSA readiness for subsequent construction phases

Key Interfaces

• CSA Project Managers for DC01 / DC02
• CSA Project Managers for DC03 / DC04
• Substation Project Manager
• Planning Consultant
• Building Control Officer
• Building Regulations Principal Designer
• Enabling works, piling, and wider delivery teams

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a delivery-focused project professional with experience in large-scale infrastructure or CSA-enabled construction environments.

Essential Experience And Skills

• Experience in enabling works, earthworks, external works, or large-scale CSA infrastructure delivery
• Strong knowledge of programme management, permits, planning conditions, contractor coordination, and interface management
• Experience with piling platforms, haul roads, temporary drainage, site logistics, and environmental obligations
• Ability to monitor and challenge contractor delivery without taking ownership of means and methods
• Strong reporting, escalation, and stakeholder coordination skills
• A structured, proactive, site-focused approach

Personal qualities

• Proactive and delivery-focused
• Strong interface manager
• Detail-oriented and organised
• Confident challenging non-compliance
• Collaborative and clear communicator

Scope of the Role

This role is focused on Enabling Works Phase B and C and associated interfaces.

The role is not responsible for:

• CSA management of DC01 and DC02
• Contractor means, methods, sequencing, or temporary works design
• Direct contractor supervision
• Detailed commercial management, quantity surveying, cost consultancy, or contract administration
• Specialist ICT, security, controls, BMS, EPMS, or ELV systems

Key Deliverables

Daily

• Site monitoring notes and observations
• Interface coordination with enabling works and piling contractors
• Progress reviews against planned activities
• Identification and escalation of issues, risks, and constraints
• Tracking RFIs, technical queries, and design issues
• Safety, quality, and compliance observations
• Action close-out follow-up
• Update of key project records and document trackers

Weekly

• Progress summary / dashboard
• Look-ahead review for upcoming activities and interfaces
• Risk and issue log updates
• Programme review against the master programme
• Coordination meeting inputs and action trackers
• Quality / defects / non-conformance summary
• Stakeholder delivery updates
• Interface status updates across adjacent works and future phases

Monthly

• Project report for Enabling Works Phase B
• Executive summary on programme, progress, risks, and key decisions
• KPI and contractor performance review
• Change log and impact summaryCompliance summary covering environmental and planning obligations
• Milestone and sectional completion readiness review
• Lessons learned and trend analysis
• Forecast of upcoming risks, constraints, and key interfaces

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of one of Europe’s most significant hyperscale data centre developments. The position offers the chance to work on a complex, high-profile programme with substantial technical, environmental, and stakeholder interface challenges.

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 maximize 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.