Senior Project Delivery & Growth Leader

Pure Data Centres Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full driving licence

Job summary

Pure Data Centres Group is seeking a Head of Project Management to act as the single senior accountable owner bridging construction, operations and customer delivery. You will manage lifecycle capital works, protect and grow customer revenue, and build capabilities for Pure DC’s programmes across global sites.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive experience with MEP data centre projects, and an ability to drive cross-functional collaboration with procurement, finance and regional

Qualifications

• Qualified in an Electrical or Mechanical capacity within the data centre industry, ideally to degree level.
• Substantial experience leading and delivering large, complex projects involving mechanical and electrical (MEP) systems, ideally within live datacentre or critical environments.
• Proven track record of managing project delivery at a senior / head-of level, including line management of teams and/or third-party delivery partners.
• Strong commercial and contractor management experience – RFPs, bidding, change orders, contract negotiation and budget ownership.
• Demonstrated ability to own and grow customer relationships during delivery, and to identify and convert additional works.
• Understanding of data centre system-level architecture, performance/equipment specification, conceptual design and project documentation.
• HSE / CDM management experience.
• Value engineering: proven ability to reduce cost through creative solutions with no impact on quality and reliability.
• Experience in controls and commissioning of complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of customer technical fit-out and internal operational projects – defining scope, business cases, project plans, programmes, schedules, risk registers and budget forecasts.
• Own project budgets, ensuring budgets are sought and agreed by the appropriate budget holder before any work is instructed, and track costs against forecast throughout delivery.
• Lead the review and sign-off of all submissions from customers and contractors, ensuring alignment of scope, design (including all levels of drawings) and expectations, with all elements witnessed, signed off and documented.
• Ensure compliance of all internal and external stakeholders with Health, Safety and Environmental regulations and Pure DC company standards.
• Act as the primary relationship owner for the customer through the construction-to-operations phase, providing regular project updates and managing variations and change requests through to handover.
• Identify and secure additional customer works (NRCs) by engaging early in the delivery lifecycle, developing viable scopes, obtaining quotes and converting opportunities that would otherwise be lost to third parties.
• Provide each key customer with a consistent single point of contact across their Pure DC estate, coordinating delivery across multiple sites and regions.
• Lead negotiations with contractors, ensuring full scope coverage with no required elements excluded, and collaborate with Procurement and Finance on supplier contracts, cost tracking and approvals.
• Apply value engineering to reduce cost through creative solutions with no impact on quality and reliability.
• Lead site engineering teams on in-house operational projects and lifecycle replacement programmes.

Skills

Leadership

Contractor management

Stakeholder management

Customer relationship

Commercial acumen

Education

Engineering degree

Prince2 / PMP certification

NEBOSH certification

BEng/BSc in Engineering

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Pure Data Centres Group is seeking a Head of Project Management to act as the single senior accountable owner bridging construction, operations and customer delivery. You will manage lifecycle capital works, protect and grow customer revenue, and build capabilities for Pure DC’s programmes across global sites.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive experience with MEP data centre projects, and an ability to drive cross-functional collaboration with procurement, finance and regional