Senior Project Manager - Mechanical

Equans Data Centres; Saunderton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Life Cover 4x salary

Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance (Family)

CSR days

Learning opportunities & training

Employee Referral Rewards Scheme

Employee networks access

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Equans Data Centres is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Mechanical to lead mechanical scopes on UK data centre projects. You’ll manage a team, drive delivery to schedule, and ensure safety, quality, and environmental standards are met across complex site builds.

Strong experience with mechanical services in data centres, plus vendor and client liaison skills, are essential. The role offers a competitive package and clear career progression within a growing business unit.

Qualifications

• Proven people management experience of leading teams.
• Strong mechanical services knowledge and project delivery focus.
• Experience coordinating large-scale data centre projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to ensure work meets quality, environmental, safety standards.
• Provide guidance to achieve operational excellence on projects.
• Coordinate on-site construction, aligning progress with plan.
• Develop and agree electrical submission/approval processes with client and design team.
• Support overall programming and planning of builds.
• Attend site meetings and communicate progress for reports.
• Chair and minute subcontractor meetings.
• Record and report key metrics to team and management.
• Review procedures, best practices and initiatives for operations.

Skills

People management

Mechanical services knowledge

Project management

Data centre sector experience

Health & safety compliance

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Main contractor experience

Subcontractor management

Job description

Equans Data Centres are seeking to appoint a Senior Project Manager – Mechanical, to support our growing Data Centre business accross the UK.

We are committed to providing cutting edge solutions for our clients Data Centre facilities and are recruitment a Senior Project Manager – Mechanical to join our innovative team. The Senior Project Manager – Mechanical will be responsible for managing the team and the mechanical aspects of large projects from inception to completion, within set timescales, to high quality standards and within health and safety guidelines.

The Role

• 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 the 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?

On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance and benefits package, which includes;

• 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 our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

What we are looking for?

• Experience working with a main contractor or large subcontractor.
• Proven people management experience of managing teams.
• Have the ability to mentor and develop team members.
• Proven technical knowledge of Mechanical Services.
• Knowledge and skills to effectively problem solve.
• Be 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.
• Degree of equivalent in an Mechanical discipline is desirable.

Who are we?

Equans Data Centres is a strategic data centre partner. We deliver the whole data centre, providing full general contracting for hyperscaler and colocation data centre projects across Europe, through a single point of contact.

Leveraging Bouygues Energies & Services and Equans' experiences, we provide expertise in construction and engineering, global standardisation, precision localisation and total control of the supply chain. This enables us to deliver data centres with the best possible quality, speed to delivery and high repeatability and scalability – to realise client needs for cost transparency, low risk, continual availability, innovation and certainty of planning and outcomes.

With more than 1,200 highly skilled employees across 8 European countries, Equans Data Centres has delivered over 400,000m2 of data halls, exceeding 640MW of IT space for major data centres providers such as VIRTUS Data Centres, Digital Reality, Equinix, Vantage Data Centres, Stack Infrastructure, Data4 and many others.

As part our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.

At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.

You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The EQUANS Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to EQUANS Managers