Project Director - Data Centre
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About the Role
Currie & Brown seeks a Project Director to lead data centre projects in Abu Dhabi. The role involves managing project delivery, budgets, teams, and client relationships. Requires a bachelor's degree, data centre experience, and project management certification.
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Responsibilities
- Responsible for project definition and delivery
- Establish project delivery plans and control mechanisms
- Lead the project team and manage performance of the Currie & Brown team
- Produce plans, schedules, track and manage budgets
- Review and manage project processes and policies, provide recommendations
- Interact effectively across the organisation to support collaboration
- Advise senior management on project progress and issues
- Present project risks or issues with proposed mitigation
- Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders
- Deliver aspects of Currie & Brown’s vision to the project
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience leading data centre projects
- Project management professional certification or accreditation
- Proven team leader capabilities
- PMC experience
- Experience during pre contract and post contract phases
- Knowledge of industry best practice
- Excellent contract administration experience
- Commercial acumen and ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
- Proven ability as a trusted advisor to the client
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Role Overview
- Currie & Brown is looking for a Project Director to join our project management team in Abu Dhabi, UAE working on Data Centre projects.
What will you be doing?
- Responsible for project definition and delivery
- Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure effective delivery of the project
- Responsible for leading the project team and performance management of the Currie & Brown team
- Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
- Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and manage project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems
- Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects can be delivered to meet customer expectations
- Advise senior management on progress and issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
- Present any business project risks or issues to senior managers (with proposed mitigation) to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards
- Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations
- Deliver aspects of Currie & Brown’s vision to their respected project(s)
What do you need?
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Experience of leading Data centre projects previously
- Project management professional certification or accreditation
- Proven team leader capabilities, behaviours and values
- PMC Experience
- Experience during both pre contract and post contract phases
- Knowledge of industry best practice
- Excellent contract administration experience
- Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
- Proven ability as a trusted advisor to the client
Our corporate values
- At Currie & Brown, we take a collaborative, open door approach to running our business.
- We focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments.
- We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people.
- With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company, able to make quick and flexible decisions.
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