Project Manager (Data Centre Industry)

Smartdeer Services Centre; Desa Ciranjeng; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 1,200,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartdeer Services Centre is seeking a seasoned data centre project leader to drive end-to-end planning, execution, and handover of complex facilities. You will coordinate with clients, EPCs, integrators, and design teams to ensure scope, schedule, quality, safety, and operations meet targets.

Experience managing data centre projects from initiation through commissioning is essential, including procurement planning, site coordination, risk mitigation, and final handover documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data centre projects from initiation to closeout.
• Strong coordination across clients, EPC, integrators, designers, procurement, and construction teams.
• Knowledge of data centre civil, mechanical, electrical, cooling, and commissioning activities.
• Experience managing schedules, budgets, risks, variations, and quality inspections.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and resolve site issues efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and handover of data centre projects.
• Clarify requirements with clients: rack quantities, PUE targets, Tier objectives.
• Develop EPC and integrator plans and determine procurements.
• Plan milestones: site prep, demolition, installation, commissioning, testing.
• Coordinate with authorities, designers, procurement, and construction teams.
• Track long-lead equipment and oversee schedule with PM software.
• Lead daily site meetings to review progress and resolve issues.
• Document change orders and assess cost and schedule impacts.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks through design reviews and checks.

Skills

Project management

Data centre

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Coordination

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Gantt charts

Job description

Lead the end-to-end planning, execution, coordination, monitoring, risk management, commissioning, and handover of data centre projects. You will work across clients, EPC and integration partners, design teams, procurement, subcontractors, construction crews, power authorities, and quality supervision bodies to deliver facilities that meet scope, schedule, quality, safety, and operational requirements.

Key responsibilities

Clarify data centre requirements with clients, including rack quantities, target PUE, delivery standards, and Tier III or Tier IV objectives.

Develop EPC and integrator plans, decompose contract work breakdown structures, and determine which equipment and construction activities should be procured directly or subcontracted.

Establish project milestones covering site preparation, demolition, structural and partition works, mechanical and electrical installation, structured cabling, system commissioning, and trial operations.

Plan material deliveries, workforce mobilisation, resource allocation, and project cash flow.

Coordinate clients, supervisors, design institutes, local power authorities, government quality supervision bodies, procurement teams, design teams, and construction crews.

Manage overlapping civil, mechanical, electrical, and finishing activities, including the sequencing of ceilings, cable trays, piping, and cable installation.

Track long-lead power and cooling equipment, including generators, transformers, high-voltage and low-voltage switchgear, UPS systems, chillers, and cooling towers.

Lead daily site meetings with subcontractors and foremen to review progress, resolve material and manpower issues, and address drawing discrepancies.

Conduct quality walkthroughs covering concealed works, raised-floor cabling, hot and cold aisle sealing, and welding quality.

Monitor schedules using Gantt charts or project management software and implement corrective actions such as additional manpower, overtime, or activity resequencing.

Manage design and scope changes by documenting change orders, assessing cost and schedule impacts, and obtaining signed variation orders.

Identify and mitigate technical risks, including airflow hot spots, power redundancy issues, and commissioning constraints, through design reviews and technical checks.

Approve and supervise hot work, work-at-height activities, and live-work controls in line with project safety requirements.

Monitor external risks affecting supply, logistics, environmental restrictions, imported equipment, and power policies, and prepare contingency plans such as alternative suppliers and logistics routes.

Plan and oversee integrated system commissioning, including dummy-load or full-load testing to verify UPS transfer times and cooling performance under heat load.

Coordinate specialised acceptance tests for fire protection, lightning grounding, and Fluke structured cabling.

Manage handover of keys, equipment manuals, operation and maintenance guides, as-built drawings, and other project documentation.

Train the client's operations team during the operations and maintenance handover period.

Complete final settlement activities, reconcile variation orders with auditors, lead lessons-learned reviews, and archive project documents for future data centre projects.

Manage back-to-back contract considerations, subcontractor interfaces, monitoring-point consistency, and cost and efficiency improvements such as optimised pipe routing.

What we're looking for

Experience managing data centre projects from initiation and planning through commissioning, handover, and closeout.

Experience in EPC or systems integration environments, with the ability to coordinate clients, designers, procurement teams, subcontractors, authorities, and internal stakeholders.

Strong knowledge of data centre civil, mechanical, electrical, cooling, power, structured cabling, monitoring, and commissioning activities.

Experience managing project schedules, resources, budgets, risks, variations, quality inspections, and final settlement.

Ability to manage multiple workstreams in parallel and resolve site issues efficiently.

Experience coordinating long-lead equipment procurement and supply chain follow-up.

Strong understanding of testing, commissioning, acceptance, documentation, and operations and maintenance handover requirements.

Ability to identify technical, safety, supply chain, and external project risks and develop practical mitigation plans.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and contract administration skills.