Senior Project Manager - Electrical

Equans UK & Ireland; Wales; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)

Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary

Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)

Broad range of learning opportunities

Job summary

A strategic data center partner is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Electrical to oversee large electrical projects from inception to completion. This role involves managing teams and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. The ideal candidate has strong people management skills, proven technical knowledge, and an electrical qualification. This position is based in the UK and offers competitive benefits including 25 days annual leave and private medical insurance.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Experience in the data centers sector is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to ensure compliance with quality and safety standards.
• Coordinate and control the on-site construction process.
• Attend site meetings, communicate progress effectively.

Skills

Experience working with a main contractor or large subcontractor

Proven people management experience

Ability to mentor and develop team members

Proven technical knowledge of Electrical Services

Customer focused communication

Education

Degree or equivalent in an Electrical discipline

Job description

Overview

Equans Data Centers are seeking to appoint a Senior Project Manager – Electrical to support our growing Data Centre business. The Senior Project Manager – Electrical will be responsible for managing a team and the electrical aspects of large projects from inception to completion, within set timescales, to high quality standards and within health and safety guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to ensure work is carried out in full conformance with quality, environmental and safety standards.
• Be an expert and provide guidance and direction to ensure operational excellence.
• Coordinate and control the on-site construction process ensuring the site build progresses in line with plan.
• Develop and agree electrical submission and approval process with the client and design team.
• Support the overall programming and planning of the build.
• Attend site meetings, effectively communicate and provide information for progress reports.
• Chair and minute subcontractor meetings.
• Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management.
• Operational support including review of procedures, best practices and initiatives.

What we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
• Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary
• Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalised support programmes
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
• Access to employee networks including AccessAbility, Encompass, RISE, WOMEN TOGETHER, Working Parents, and Young Professionals
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

Who we are looking for

• Experience working with a main contractor or large subcontractor
• Proven people management experience of managing teams
• Ability to mentor and develop team members
• Proven technical knowledge of Electrical Services
• Knowledge and skills to effectively problem solve
• Self-motivated with proven organisational ability and the drive to meet deadlines
• Customer focused with the ability to communicate effectively with clients
• Attention to Health and Safety matters
• Commercially astute
• Experience in the data centres sector is desirable
• Degree or equivalent in an Electrical discipline is desirable

Who are we

We are a strategic data center partner delivering every aspect of general contractor design, build, and commissioning for major data centers across Europe to provide new build, fit-out, complex retrofit, and upgrade through one point of contact.

Equans Data Centers leverages decades of experience with Bouygues Energies & Services and Equans to deliver client needs through sustainability, health and safety, and broader engineering considerations. We bring in-house expertise across consulting, architecture, construction, and engineering, with global standardisation and local on-the-ground teams in key European countries to ensure localisation. We control our supply chain with the robustness of a global leader in construction behind us, focusing on client success.

With more than 1,200 highly skilled employees across 8 European countries, Equans has delivered extensive data center capacity and services for major providers.

What’s next?

If this role is of interest, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress. A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.

At Equans we’re committed to a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. Diversity and inclusion are core to what we do. You’ll have access to our growing employee networks, including WiE, RISE, LGBTQI+, Working Parents, YPN, and Disability Network.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. We are not able to offer a relocation package with this job role. Some roles may require a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.