Senior Project Manager

3 weeks ago


Slough, United Kingdom VIRTUS Data Centre Full time

**About VIRTUS**

VIRTUS Data Centres is the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider which owns, designs, builds and operates the country’s most efficient and flexible data centres. Our mission is to consistently exceed the expectations of customers through innovative,high quality solutions and services. We employ intelligent thinkers - people with positive attitudes, who add to the quality of our customer proposition and business. We value individual endeavour and initiative, encourage teamwork and togetherness becausecollective experience and expertise is VIRTUS’ greatest strength.

**Job Summary**

As part of the role, you will be required to manage all external consultants and internal stakeholders to ensure the delivery of complex data centre developments; manage and report on project programme, cost and quality standards (against approved businessplan) and ensure that specified products and installations meet performance requirements.
The position will require the project management of a number of concurrent data centres projects across the VIRTUS portfolio in LONDON as well as the management and co-ordination of the handover process from the Construction team to the VIRTUS Operations team.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The role includes but is not limited to the following: -- Act in capacity of Employer’s Representative and be responsible for the end to end construction delivery of UK projects, consisting of pre-construction milestone management, shell & core and MEP fit out scope of work for Data Centre projects as may be assigned.
- In co-operation with the VP of Construction this position aligns metro delivery strategies to local team objectives, business processes, vendor management strategies, and cross-group collaboration efforts.
- This position will be responsible for co-ordinating and reviewing vendor performance relative to cash flow and budget summaries with the project controls team, clarifying those reports in presentations to the delivery and executive chain on a cadence setby VP of Construction.
- Other responsibilities include oversight and collaboration with the VP of Construction to generate CAPEX forecasting and requests as well as advising on, Professional Consultancy requests, Change Orders, Pay Applications, etc.
- Be strategically focused, collaborate and identify opportunities and execution strategies to improve Time To Market.
- Identification and documentation of sub-regional safety, working hour, regulatory or compliance issues that may impact the execution of the above, and ensuring this is factored into our planning.

Business Process:

- Create and/or maintain best practices to identify and incorporate cost-effective solutions in line with specification requirements and report on KPIs for the same.
- Manage the selection, contracting, and integration of multiple vendors and internal partners.
- Facilitate decision-making to drive solutions, schedules, and manage change as required.

Communication:

- Regularly review cost and KPI metrics, invoices, process/policy communications.
- Provide project single point of contact for project development and delivery in an end to end project management role.
- Coordinate meetings and activities of vendors, cost managers, and integration of lessons learned.
- Attend scheduled project meetings, and report as necessary.
Vendor Management:

- Provide Vendor oversight and performance management to deliver assigned projects.
- Preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP’s).
- Review and approval of vendor scope of work and design review of site and building plans.

Day to Day:

- Health and Safety leadership of the works across all data centre projects assigned.
- Develop early Cx regimes and deliverables to meet the L1-L5 Commissioning approach including external vendor input and integrate DCOPs/FM teams into the process.
- Responsible for delivering early access regimes to customers and managing the construction handover process to DCOPs in line with company policy and processes, including defect close out management.
- Responsible for preparation, submission and tracking of all necessary project spend in line with approved business case capex and run change control on a weekly triage and then change control approval basis in line with project contingency.

Any other reasonable requests made by your line manager.

**Person Specification**
- Bachelor’s degree or Equivalent in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Construction Project Management, or Construction Management - Any acceptable.
- Extensive experience in data centre project construction with hyperscale data centre operators, lease providers or allied sectors such as Petro-Chem/Pharma/Process control - any heavy process sector experience valid.
- Design and Build contract strategy experience.
- Client or Contractor side onsite data centre construction or management experience.
- Self-starter with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Able to manage and work within a diverse and inclusive team environment delivering large scale enterprise projects with both localised and virtual team structures.
- Cross-group collaborator and influencer across teams and organis


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