Strategic Program Director – Data Centre Campus

Poutrix; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Project Director to provide strategic leadership for a major hyperscale data centre campus in Northumberland. You will be the single point of accountability for project management delivery across multiple workstreams, guiding governance, risk, reporting, and interfaces with client leadership and external authorities.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, drive lessons learned, and champion a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement as the programme

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading major or complex construction programmes, preferably hyperscale data centres or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Strong working knowledge of RIBA Stages 3–5, project governance, reporting, and stage gate control.
• FIDIC Red Book and major project commercial awareness.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary project teams and senior client stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Arcadis Project Management Consultancy team across RIBA Stages 3, 4 and 5.
• Act as the single point of accountability to the client’s construction leadership for project management delivery.
• Set and govern project-wide processes, systems, and policies including PEP, RACI, governance, IMS, risk, change, cost, EHS, quality, commissioning, procurement, and handover.
• Lead and mentor the Project Management team and direct reports across multiple data centre workstreams.
• Lead strategic engagement with senior client stakeholders and external stakeholders including statutory authorities, utilities, network providers, and delivery partners.
• Champion project culture, transparency, accountability, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Governance

Stakeholder management

RIBA Stages 3-5

FIDIC Red Book

Risk management

Tools

RACI

IMS

FIDIC knowledge

Job description

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Project Director to provide strategic leadership for a major hyperscale data centre campus in Northumberland. You will be the single point of accountability for project management delivery across multiple workstreams, guiding governance, risk, reporting, and interfaces with client leadership and external authorities.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, drive lessons learned, and champion a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement as the programme