Senior Project Manager — Data Centers

Turner & Townsend; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team on a full-time basis. The role is embedded on-site at a Goodyear, AZ project, providing day-to-day oversight across preconstruction and construction delivery for data center initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years in project management, including data center experience, and will manage stakeholders, cost control, and project governance to ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in project management, with 5+ years in data center or mission-critical construction.
• Experience as Owner's Representative or Owner's PM.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure—MV/LV, cooling, generators, UPS, BMS, fire suppression.
• Experience with GMP contracts, change orders, and cost control.
• Procore, scheduling tools (P6 or equivalent), and MS Office Suite.
• Must be able to work on-site 5 days per week in Goodyear, AZ.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day oversight and leadership across preconstruction and construction delivery.
• Serve as primary point of accountability for project performance.
• Manage stakeholders, supply chains, and interfaces to deliver compliant projects.
• Forecast and update milestones, monitor progress of multiple projects.
• Ensure governance, processes and systems are applied consistently.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder mgmt

Data center infra

Cost control

Vendor management

On-site leadership

Tools

Procore

P6 scheduling

MS Office

Job description

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose:

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our values:

Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

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Who is Turner & Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects.

In this role, you will be embedded full-time on site, providing day-to-day oversight and leadership across preconstruction and construction delivery phases on behalf of our client. You will be the primary point of accountability for project performance, acting as a trusted extension of the client's team.

Responsibilities:

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
• Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized
• Ensure application of best practice on all projects.
• Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards are applied correctly.
• Manage the interface between all suppliers through monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.
• Forecast and update key project milestones.
• Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provide expertise for cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required.
• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
• Client management – assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’ objectives and business objectives.
• Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project are captured.
• Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of project management experience, with at least 5 years in data center or mission-critical construction
• Proven experience in an Owner's Representative or Owner's PM capacity
• Strong technical understanding of data center infrastructure — MV/LV electrical distribution, cooling systems (CRAC, CRAH, chilled water, CDUs), generators, UPS, BMS, fire suppression, and building envelope
• Demonstrated ability to manage GC and trade contractor performance on large-scale, fast-paced programs
• Experience with GMP contracts, change order management, and cost control
• Proficiency in Procore, scheduling tools (P6 or equivalent), and Microsoft Office Suite
• Must be able to work on-site 5 days per week in Goodyear, AZ

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.*

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