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Data Centre Program Construction Manager

Accenture


Job Location:

Melbourne - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 29 August 2026 (12 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 26 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the worlds leading businesses governments and other organisations build their digital core optimise operations accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services. We deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day serving clients in more than 120 countries. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are committed to creating positive change and delivering value for our clients people shareholders partners and communities.
Role purpose
The Construction Manager (CM) is the Customers senior on-site construction representative providing independent oversight of construction delivery milestone readiness and the integration of Developer/GC works with Customer fit-out MEP systems commissioning and technology deployment. The CM maintains an integrated view of physical progress constraints quality safety energisation commissioning and turnover readiness with particular focus on achieving contractual/customer milestones.
The CM coordinates and escalates issues across the Customer Developer GC MEP contractors commissioning teams and Customer delivery teams but does not assume the Developer/GCs contractual responsibility for design construction methodology supervision quality or commissioning execution.
Responsibilities
Construction and milestone readiness
  • Monitor the customer master schedule and readiness for customer milestones such as Early Floor Access (EFA) Floor Access (FA) and Ready for Service (RFS)
  • Maintain a rolling 6-12 week look-ahead identifying constraints and dependencies on critical or near critical path
  • Coordination and escalation of remedial actions with the responsible delivery parties
  • Manage milestone entry/exit criteria and evidence requirements for milestone acceptance
  • Validate reported construction and commissioning progress through regular site inspections
Interface management commissioning and completions
  • Act of the Customers primary on-site point of contact with the developer GC and construction teams
  • Support and coordinate interfaces between customer developer GC MEP and commissioning teams
  • Coordinate task sequencing where customer fit-out overlaps with final construction and commissioning
  • Coordinate construction completion with commissioning sequence and system turnover requirements.
  • Monitor construction readiness for energisation and commissioning activities
  • Monitor ITP completion NCRs defects and punch-list closure affecting milestone readiness
  • Verify test records certifications as-built information and completions documentation
  • Coordinate interfaces between construction commissioning customer fit-out and technology deployment
  • Support progressive turnover from construction areas to controlled/commissioning/operational environments
Risk and issues management
  • Maintain the site CRAID log (change risk action issue and decisions)
  • Ensuring every item has a clear owner due date and path to closure
  • Distinguish between customer-owned Developer-owned and GC-owned actions
  • Daily and weekly reviews of critical and overdue items
Customer reporting
  • Provide transparent site status and milestone-readiness reporting to Customer leadership
  • Represent the Customers interests in site meetings and progress reviews
  • Maintain independent visibility of QA/QC and commissioning information
Background and experience
  • 8 years major construction management experience
  • Construction management engineering or equivalent relevant qualification
  • Leadership experience representing customer/owner in major construction context
  • Experience delivering hyperscale or large-scale data centre facilities
  • Knowledge of Australian WHS legislation and construction-site safety management including high-risk construction work SWMS electrical safety permit-to-work isolation/LOTO and energisation
  • White Card required; Cert IV WHS or equivalent desirable

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the worlds leading businesses governments and other organizations build their digital core optimize their operations accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen servicescreating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today and we are one of the worlds leaders in helping drive that change with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud data and AI with unmatched industry experience functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting Technology Operations Industry X and Song together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients each other our shareholders partners and communities.

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