Project Director (CSAMEP) (Data Centre)

Role Overview

The Project Director Data Centre is the clients senior representative responsible for providing overall leadership governance and strategic oversight of data centre developments from early planning and design through construction commissioning and handover.

The Project Director ensures that all appointed consultants contractors and vendors deliver in alignment with client objectives programme milestones cost parameters quality standards and operational readiness requirements typical of mission-critical facilities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Provide overall leadership and governance for one or multiple data centre projects or campuses.
• Act as the primary senior point of contact between the client and the project delivery ecosystem.
• Establish and enforce project governance frameworks reporting structures and decision-making protocols.
• Ensure alignment between client business objectives technical requirements and delivery strategies.

Project Planning & Pre-Construction Oversight

• Oversee site selection support feasibility studies master planning and early works strategies.
• Lead PMC oversight of design development ensuring constructability scalability redundancy and operational resilience are embedded.
• Guide pre-construction planning to optimise programme cost logistics and phased delivery for data centre readiness milestones.

Programme Cost & Risk Management

• Define and manage baseline programme budget and risk registers at project and portfolio levels.
• Monitor progress against key milestones such as:
• Identify and proactively manage strategic risks impacting schedule cost quality or commissioning outcomes.
• Provide informed recommendations to the client on mitigation strategies and recovery plans.

Health Safety & Environment (HSE) Leadership

• Ensure HSE requirements are fully integrated into all phases of project delivery.
• Champion a proactive safety culture across consultants contractors and vendors.
• Ensure compliance with statutory client and international HSE standards applicable to mission-critical facilities.

Technical Quality & Commissioning Oversight

• Provide high-level oversight of design engineering and technical assurance processes.
• Ensure quality management systems and inspection regimes are effectively implemented.
• Oversee testing commissioning and integrated systems testing (IST) readiness in alignment with client operational requirements.
• Ensure handover documentation asset data and as-built records meet client and operational standards.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Construction Management or related discipline.
• Professional registration (Ir. PE Chartered Engineer or equivalent) preferred.
• Project or programme management certification (PMP PgMP etc.) is an advantage
• Minimum 15 years of experience in the delivery of large-scale construction or infrastructure projects.
• Strong track record delivering mission-critical facilities including data centres (hyperscale or colocation).
• Minimum 5 years in a senior leadership role overseeing complex multi-package projects.
• Proven experience operating in a client-facing or PMC environment managing multiple consultants and contractors.

Core Competencies
        Data centre delivery and governance
        PMC leadership and client representation
        Programme cost and risk oversight
        Interface management (DesignConstructionCommissioning)
        Stakeholder and executive communication
        Quality and operational readiness assurance
  

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time