Project Director, Data Centre Construction

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12.05.2025

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26.06.2025

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Company Description

Turner & Townsend’s contributions help shape the built environment, impacting and evolving the way people live, work and travel. With a heritage rooted in cost, commercial and project management we have a deep and tacit understanding of capital programmes and apply this expertise to drive industry best practice and innovation.

Our Purpose is making the difference: transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. This Purpose is grounded in the belief that we work in an industry that has the potential to transform lives, whether by helping to tackle the climate agenda or levelling up society through improved infrastructure. We can lead by transforming performance, delivering for our clients at scale and speed, raising standards and making a difference.

Globally, we operate 113 offices in 45 countries with over 11,000 colleagues.

Job Description

We are currently seeking a Project Director within a PMC delivery model for a major investment in Zurich. This is a key leadership position within our team operationally reporting to the Turner & Townsend Managing Director for Switzerland and functionally, leading a multi-disciplinary team integrated within, and reporting to, the client’s regional leadership.

The Project Director will act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that our client objectives are not only met, but exceeded wherever possible and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate high level of quality, sustainability, and safety standards.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and drive performance through design development, permitting and approvals, procurement and ultimately construction.

Key Attributes and Duties:

The individual in this role should have both a strong pre contract and post contract, full life cycle delivery background. You will show excellent management and interpersonal skills, have an engaging approach and possess a very strong core technical skillset with an understanding of construction, an appreciation of commercial and have contractual awareness.

As the Project Director you will oversee, manage and lead a team providing the following services:

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering major projects and programmes
• Experience to include Project Director, Construction Director within a PMC, EPCM, Construction Management Environment or as a General Contractor
• Experienced with requirements of Quality, Health & Safety on a construction site
• Understanding of project controls methodology, able to develop and manage a construction schedule/ programme and direct others in the use of P6
• Data Centre experience would be preferred, but is not essential
• Proactive, meticulous, self-motivated and hands-on team player
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills essential, ability to communicate well with clients and senior management

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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