CSA Project Manager Enabling Works (Site Based)
Birmingham - UK
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Job Summary
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
About the Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the delivery team for a major 10 billion hyperscale data centre campus in Northumberlandone of the largest data centre developments in Europe.
The development spans approximately 540000 sqm across 10 data centre buildings and includes significant enabling works substation construction and environmental remediation. With enabling works underway and main construction commencing from 2026 this programme represents a transformative investment in the region and will create thousands of jobs.
We are seeking a CSA Project Manager Enabling Works to act as the Employers lead for CSA project management across Enabling Works Phase B and C with a primary focus on earthworks land remediation drainage external works piling interfaces logistics environmental compliance and construction readiness for subsequent data centre delivery.
The Role
The CSA Project Manager Enabling Works will oversee key enabling works activities including:
- Earthworks and land remediation including Pulverised Flue Ash (PFA) processing
- Site clearance and drainage
- Temporary works interfaces
- Piling mats and piling interfaces
- Access roads and logistics routes
- Planning and permitting interfaces
- Environmental obligations and compliance
- Readiness for future data centre construction activities
This is a client-side oversight and interface management role focused on monitoring delivery coordinating stakeholders and managing risk programme compliance and reporting. The role does not assume responsibility for contractor means and methods sequencing ownership or temporary works design.
Key Responsibilities
- Complete Phase A enabling works handover and coordinate with GC mobilisation where relevant to Phase B
- Manage Phase B Enabling Works for DC03 and DC04 through to February 2027 including piling interfaces
- Manage Phase C Enabling Works through to December 2027 including interfaces with DC01 and DC02 construction
- Coordinate planning condition discharge and ongoing permitting requirements
- Interface with substation construction temporary and permanent power delivery and adjacent construction activities
- Monitor contractor performance programme quality environmental compliance and permitting obligations
- Manage progress risk change control and reporting across the enabling works scope
- Coordinate with design consultants on CSA design RFIs technical issues and change management
- Track and support CSA readiness for subsequent construction phases
Key Interfaces
You will work closely with:
- CSA Project Managers for DC01 / DC02
- CSA Project Managers for DC03 / DC04
- Substation Project Manager
- Planning Consultant
- Building Control Officer
- Building Regulations Principal Designer
- Enabling works piling and wider delivery teams
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for a delivery-focused project professional with experience in large-scale infrastructure or CSA-enabled construction environments.
Essential experience and skills
- Experience in enabling works earthworks external works or large-scale CSA infrastructure delivery
- Strong knowledge of programme management permits planning conditions contractor coordination and interface management
- Experience with piling platforms haul roads temporary drainage site logistics and environmental obligations
- Ability to monitor and challenge contractor delivery without taking ownership of means and methods
- Strong reporting escalation and stakeholder coordination skills
- A structured proactive site-focused approach
Personal qualities
- Proactive and delivery-focused
- Strong interface manager
- Detail-oriented and organised
- Confident challenging non-compliance
- Collaborative and clear communicator
Scope of the Role
This role is focused on Enabling Works Phase B and C and associated interfaces.
The role is not responsible for:
- CSA management of DC01 and DC02
- Contractor means methods sequencing or temporary works design
- Direct contractor supervision
- Detailed commercial management quantity surveying cost consultancy or contract administration
- Specialist ICT security controls BMS EPMS or ELV systems
Key Deliverables
Daily
- Site monitoring notes and observations
- Interface coordination with enabling works and piling contractors
- Progress reviews against planned activities
- Identification and escalation of issues risks and constraints
- Tracking RFIs technical queries and design issues
- Safety quality and compliance observations
- Action close-out follow-up
- Update of key project records and document trackers
Weekly
- Progress summary / dashboard
- Look-ahead review for upcoming activities and interfaces
- Risk and issue log updates
- Programme review against the master programme
- Coordination meeting inputs and action trackers
- Quality / defects / non-conformance summary
- Stakeholder delivery updates
- Interface status updates across adjacent works and future phases
Monthly
- Project report for Enabling Works Phase B
- Executive summary on programme progress risks and key decisions
- KPI and contractor performance review
- Change log and impact summary
- Compliance summary covering environmental and planning obligations
- Milestone and sectional completion readiness review
- Lessons learned and trend analysis
- Forecast of upcoming risks constraints and key interfaces
Why Apply
This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of one of Europes most significant hyperscale data centre developments. The position offers the chance to work on a complex high-profile programme with substantial technical environmental and stakeholder interface challenges.
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age Disability Faith Gender LGBT and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more