Project Operations Manager

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Job Description

Your Role

The EMEA Design, Engineering and Construction (DE&C) Project Operations Manager plays a critical role in driving operational excellence and consistency across Digital Realty's global construction projects. This position partners closely with the EMEA DE&C Head of Project Controls to enhance project performance through risk management, digital enablement, process optimisation, and data-driven decision-making.

You will work across regions and functions to improve workflows, strengthen governance, and promote innovation, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently, consistently, and in line with organisational standards.

What You'll Do

• Support development and implementation of global risk management frameworks

• Drive adoption of digital tools and automation across reporting and workflows

• Identify and implement process improvements to optimise project delivery

• Support standardisation of processes and governance across regions

• Develop centralised reporting and dashboards for project performance

• Enable data-driven insights to inform decision-making

• Support schedule governance frameworks and consistency across projects

• Promote collaborative planning across cross-functional teams

What You'll Need

• Proven expertise in automation, reporting, and data-driven decision-making.

• Extensive experience in construction project management, including digital transformation, risk management, and operational optimisation.

• Understanding of schedule governance, collaborative planning, and workflow optimization principles.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability

• Clear communication across diverse audiences

• Ability to drive collaboration across teams and regions

• Highly organised with strong prioritisation skills

• Strategic mindset with operational focus

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business or related discipline

About Us

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Safely Powering Progress

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.