Senior Project Manager - Data Centres

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The global digital revolution is bringing prosperity to more and more countries and regions, benefiting millions of people. Data C ent r es make this 21st century transformation possible and reliable systems and continuity are crucial. From the pioneering stage, we have been involved in the emergence and development of D ata C ent r es and other important facilities. Our aim is to ensure that customer investments in D ata C ent re s, anywhere in the world, deliver a reliable and profitable result.

Our Mission Critical Facilities (MCF) Data Centre team is well established and partners with some of the largest and leading Data Centre providers and users across the globe, ranging from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the UK. We have offices and teams in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and South Africa.

Data Centres is a strategic market for Royal HaskoningDHV . We are ranked in the Top 5 leading Design and Engineering firms in the industry, and we aim to grow and establish innovative and sustainable data centres as one of our leading market sectors in future. We are expanding our business to help support this growth and have many exciting opportunities for experienced and motivated professionals to join us in The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the UK or South Africa.
What you do as a Senior Data Centre Project Manager :

As Senior Project Manager you must prove yourself to some of the most demanding customers in the world and work pro-actively with our colleagues across the globe . Beyond the standard features of a building, our Mission Critical Facility ( MCF ) projects require specific and advanced knowledge and skills. What our clients have in common is the need for a proactive P r oject Manager . What you bring a s a Senior Project Manager :

• Providing leadership, guidance, project management, advice, and support for projects and project team members.
• Clear and confident communication to ensure tasks and objectives are understood and delivered.
• Confidence in delegating work and leading within a busy team.
• Demonstrable experience negotiating with and influencing project team members, clients and other stakeholders in a professional, competent and ethical manner.
• Evidence of consulting with, guiding and advising your project team on the best ways to achieve the project objectives . Provide commercial and technical management of projects, ensuring that projects show a profitable result.

You will develop strong relationships with existing and future clients; part of this will include undertaking project tasks and delivering results. You will have the autonomy to work in your own style to achieve the below:

• Demonstrating behaviours that ensure your health and safety and that of others.
• Project and Programme planning, organisation and control
• Scope, Time, Cost, Risk, Quality and Procurement Management
• Preparation of Contract Documents, Specifications, Bills of Quantities, and supervision activities
• Liaison with all levels of clients, local authorities, contractors, and specialist consultants on administrative and technical subjects
• Utilise your technical and working knowledge of both design and construction practices in UK and overseas markets, working in positions of authority and responsibility, to assure that the right things are done right.
• Provide the key link between project delivery (internal) and the Client's organisation (external), when initiating This will include, for example, the coordination of stakeholder input, the production of options appraisals, the preparation of project briefs and business cases and the gaining of approvals.
• Be a figure of authority, trust, support and security for project deliverers
• Management of inspection and survey projects throughout the UK and occasionally internationally, including preparation and checking of reports, and actively seeking opportunities to implement effective technical advances in inspection practice, subject to client restrictions.
• Provide sound engineering judgement and advice.

Where you will work

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people's lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent global multi - disciplinary engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation, with over 6,000 professionals in more than 150 countries.

You will become part of our global Mission Critical Facilities (MCF) team, who provide a multidisciplinary package of consultancy services for our D ata C entr e clients. We provide strategic, tactical, and operational advice to our clients, including colocation datacentres, internet service providers, and telecom companies. Our team consists of colleagues with all kinds of different expertise . For example, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, construction, civil, structure, building, architecture, fire safety, control engineering, and security technology. Together we use our knowledge and expertise to develop integrated designs for Data Centres.

You will join a leading market and work with a dedicated and passionate team ranked as one of the best Data Centre design & engineering teams globally.
What you bring

You are an entrepreneurial, result oriented, proactive individual with a positive flexible and problem-solving attitude . Besides that, you have:

• Ability to perform best in a multidisciplinary team often with international colleagues .
• Good command of the English language.
• Demonstrate excellent Project leadership skills on complex projects
• Flexible work ethic .
• Good oral and written communication skills .
• Confident .
• Team playe r
• Independent thinker .
• Good e xperience drafting and managing contracts
• Experience in commercial management
• Have an awareness of the law and legal systems in which UK projects are run.
• At least 10 years of Project Management experience
• Data Centre experience will be an advantage
• Membership of appropriate professional body
• Awareness of Data Centre industry procedures and best practice
• Demonstrable experience in applying technology to improve efficiency of inspection work
• Excellent managerial, commercial and technical track record

What we offer you

As worldwide engineering firm, we are ambitious, exciting, lively, collaborative and dynamic. We are making a difference to society and technological progress across the globe. That's how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to enhancing society with your expertise ? Be part of an open network where you're connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us!

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities to support your career path. Entrepreneurship and innovation are stimulated in our organization. There is plenty of room for own initiative in an open and flexible culture. You also get with us:

• A good balance between work and private life, including flexible working hours and 2 5 days of vacation with full-time employment.
• You will also receive a laptop and telephone from the company so that you can work wherever and whenever you want;
• Private Medical and Dental insurance
• Plenty of training and development opportunities. With us, you will not find rigid functions and well-defined development paths, but flexible roles and a lot of freedom of choice when it comes to team, location, and work.

You will be based in Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Peterborough or Leeds . As our clients are based in various locations nationally and internationally, flexibility towards traveling is expected.

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