Mechanical Project Manager

Datalec Precision Installations Pte Ltd; Santo Niño 1st; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Datalec Precision Installations Pte Ltd is seeking a Mechanical Project Manager to lead the planning, coordination and delivery of mechanical scope for hyperscale data centre projects. You will ensure safety, schedule, budget and quality while coordinating with clients, consultants, subcontractors and internal teams.

The role requires PMP certification, a degree in a related field, and extensive experience in data centres and international projects.

Qualifications

• PMP Certification or equivalent is required.
• A degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field is preferred.
• CDCPM or equivalent data centre experience desirable.
• Significant international experience is required.
• Leadership and people management skills are essential.
• Experience in Construction and M&E environments.
• Proficiency in IT tools including MS Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint.
• Financial awareness of profit, loss and costing; accreditation such as CSCS/ECS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide health and safety leadership across the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate with senior management and H&S teams to communicate clearly.
• Deliver projects in line with ISO processes and customer expectations.
• Support bid activities to ensure profitable and successful proposals.
• Oversee pre-commencement activities and review scope to meet customer requirements.
• Engage with supply chain and manage subcontractor contracts and performance.
• Identify and mitigate project risks with the commercial team.
• Lead project team to safely deliver within time, budget, and specs.
• Maintain client relationships and ensure confidentiality and security compliance.

Skills

PMP Certification

Leadership

International experience

Construction & M&E knowledge

IT skills (MS Office)

Financial awareness

Data Centre industry knowledge

Contract/Commercial awareness

Education

Degree in Project Management or Engineering or Business Administration

Tools

MS Project

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About the role

The Mechanical Project Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of all mechanical scope of activities associated with hyperscale and colocation data centre projects. The role ensures mechanical systems are installed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with project specifications, quality standards, and commissioning requirements. The successful candidate will work closely with clients, consultants, subcontractors, commissioning teams, and internal stakeholders to deliver mission-critical infrastructure projects to the highest standards.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong Health and Safety leadership and compliance throughout all activities relating to the project on which you are working.
• Support the Senior Management and central H&S team by delivering clear and consistent communications.
• Deliver projects in line with ISO and business process in aid to provide customers a consistent delivery experience.
• Participate in bid activities that support sales and proposal team and processes. To ensure that professional, profitable, and successful bids are delivered, meeting customer expectations.
• Manage pre-commencement activities in line with business project delivery process. To maximise opportunities, efficiency and profitability in the delivery phase of the project. Review the project scope of works including installation methods, to ensure the precise provision of the customer's requirements.
• Supply chain engagement, maintaining relation and understanding escalation structure and processes to overcome barriers to resolve disputes or issues.
• Engagement with the commercial team ensuring Sub-contractor contracts and performance is implemented. Management/contracts management across the full operations.
• Working with project commercial lead, identify and manage project risks and opportunities, ensuring that these are commercially mitigated or enhanced to provide a clear and up to date risk position.
• Lead the team to effectively manage the appointed specialist Sub-Contractors and ensure the work is being carried out safely, to the specification and programme. Develop effective, sustainable relationships with key sub-contractor organisations.
• Provide leadership for the project delivery team within the area of control; through clear provision of objectives, responsibilities, and accountabilities, managing performance accordingly. Offer guidance and feedback to maximise the performance of the team.
• Provision of Customer Progress Reporting in a timely and regularly manner, using correct reporting management tools and templates. Ensure the level of information provided is sufficient to manage expectations and considers the sensitivity of business to end to end client relation to avoid any detrimental effect.
• Provision of internal business reports and contract reviews, including the preparation and submission of requisite reports and all project related data. Ensure the accuracy and integrity of costs, values and programme forecasts; seeking opportunities to suggest actions which mitigates risk and maximise profitability.
• Pro-actively engaged with the Commercial team ensuring contractual matters are represented to meet the constraints under contract.
• Develop/maintain positive long-term relationships with customers by understanding their requirements and ensuring that project objectives are defined. Lead project team/area under control to deliver against these objectives, ensure customer satisfaction and maintain sustainable relationships.
• Lead project team to the safe and successful completion of the project/area under control within agreed timescales, agreed budgets and to meet specification and customer requirements; ensuring that the project is closed out in accordance with the business process requirements. Ensure that project defects are closed out in a timely.
• Represent the business, upholding our core values and behaviours with all internal and external customers, clients and third parties
• Maintain business and client confidentiality, adhering to applicable Data Protection regulations and Information Security Standards in line with company, and group policies and procedures.

Qualifications: Skills and Experience

• PMP Certified or Equivalent:Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent is required.
• A degree in Project Management, Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical), Business Administration, or a related field is preferred. However, many years of trade experience will also be considered.
• Certified Data Centre Project Manager (CDCPM) or equivalent proven experience in data centres is desirable.
• Significant international experience.
• Leadership and people management skills.
• Experience in management within Construction and M&E environment
• Sector and industry knowledge within Data Centre and associated services environment.
• Proficiency in IT skills, including Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint)
• Financial awareness of profit and loss and commercial costing.
• SMST, IOSH for managers, CSCS, ECS accreditation or local/regional equivalent

Values & Behaviours:

DPI Values

Dedication Precision Integrity

Behaviours

• Inspiration - Has a clear vision of where to go and the ability to articulate it. Empowers people to implement our vision and strategy. Great communicator who captures the imagination, generating trust and commitment.
• Team Spirit - Thinks about "we" not "me"; we do this together. Brings purpose to the team to make it a cohesive unit. Knows when to seek help and when to give it. Prepared to take action to address issues for the good of the team and celebrate others' successes.
• Self-Awareness - Emotionally intelligent; has empathy for others and gets the best out of people by meeting them on their terms. Great at building rapport with colleagues and customers; knows that their behavior impacts on the performance of others and adapts approach to achieve the best results.
• Achievement - Always striving to be the best and consistently delivers. High performer: bringing high energy, competence and making the right decisions to get things done.
• Tenacity - Relentless in the pursuit of their goals. Excellent at solving problems and overcoming obstacles; seeing the challenges before others see them and taking action, to avoid them becoming problems. Sees setbacks as opportunities and becomes stronger in adversity.
• Influence - Highly skilled at getting others committed to the goal. Confident, enthusiastic and encourages creativity. Understands the needs of stakeholders and as a result, engages them.

Our Vision

• To compete at the highest standards in data centre fit-out, MEP construction and managed services throughout Europe and beyond.

Our Mission

• Continue to develop and deliver products and services unparalleled in terms of quality.
• Retain our clients, broaden our breadth of service identifying closely with their changing requirements.
• Execute a robust H&S and Wellbeing strategy. Consider and implement wherever possible initiatives that relate to environmental improvements.

Our Strategy

• People - Build an organisation capable of managing the business we will become. Recruit and retain and develop the best industry professionals. Health, Safety and Wellbeing remain paramount, for our employees and clients.
• Products - must address an industry need. We must have differentiators such as assured quality, modularisation, and off-site construction techniques. Datalec’s commitment to quality is unsurpassed in the industry, we seek perfection. New products and services must be delivered to the same exacting standards.
• Purpose - relates both to our clients and our organisation. We need to understand both how to be able to confidently present our solutions and product strategy to the market. Separately, we create a working environment that promotes and rewards employees fairly, actively supporting a culture of transparency and mutual respect.