Project Leader

Cushman & Wakefield; Kanchipuram; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield in India is seeking a Project Leader to drive data centre projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to quality and safety standards.

You will provide strategic direction, lead the project team, coordinate with clients and stakeholders, and manage design development, construction, commissioning, risks and governance to achieve a successful handover. This role offers exposure to global best practices and complex mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of data centre infrastructure.
• Good coordination and follow-up skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the project.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the client and key stakeholders.
• Oversee the team and coordinate all project functions.
• Ensure delivery of the project within approved time, cost, quality, and safety objectives.
• Monitor design development, construction, and commissioning activities.
• Review project progress, milestones, risks, issues, and recovery actions.
• Lead stakeholder, contractor, consultant, and vendor coordination.
• Ensure implementation of project governance, reporting, and control systems.
• Provide strategic direction for resolution of critical project issues and escalations.
• Ensure successful project completion, commissioning, and handover.

Skills

Coordination skills

Data centre knowledge

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Title

Project Leader

Job Description Summary

This role will be responsible for execution of data centre projects, ensuring work is completed on time, within budget, and as per quality and safety standards.

Job Description

About the Role:

• Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the project.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the client and key stakeholders.
• Oversee the team and coordinate all project functions.
• Ensure delivery of the project within approved time, cost, quality, and safety objectives.
• Monitor design development, construction, and commissioning activities.
• Review project progress, key milestones, risks, issues, and recovery actions.
• Lead stakeholder, contractor, consultant, and vendor coordination.
• Ensure effective implementation of project governance, reporting, and control systems.
• Provide strategic direction for resolution of critical project issues and escalations.
• Ensure successful project completion, commissioning, and handover.

About You:

• Basic understanding of data centre infrastructure.
• Good coordination and follow-up skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, mission-critical environments.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That’s why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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