Senior Project Manager - Data Centers
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About the Role
Lead project management for data centers, ensuring safety, quality, and delivery while managing risks and stakeholder engagement under FIDIC contracts.
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What You'Ll Be Doing
- Serve as the overall lead for the PMC, with accountability for safety, schedule, cost, quality, and delivery outcomes across all project phases
- Act as the primary senior interface with the Employer, leading governance forums, escalation processes, and strategic decision making.br>Establish and implement a disciplined project governance framework, including reporting cadence, controls, dashboards, and decision logs.
- Lead and integrate a multi disciplinary PMC team (construction, technical, commercial, planning, HSE, commissioning), ensuring clarity of roles and accountability.
- Oversee the development and execution of the Project Execution Plan, ensuring alignment with Employer standards, global design requirements, and RFS commitments.
- Manage programme certainty, ensuring early identification of risks, protected commissioning milestones, and timely escalation of schedule threats with recovery strategies.
- Provide senior oversight of FIDIC contract administration, ensuring fair, impartial determinations while safeguarding the Employer s commercial and risk position.
- Ensure HSE leadership is embedded across all stakeholders, championing a zero harm culture where no commercial or schedule pressure compromises safety.
- Drive a quality first delivery approach, ensuring QAQC processes support long term operational reliability, maintainability, and performance.br>Lead coordination with the Engineer of Record (EoR) and Commissioning Agent, maintaining single point accountability for integration, readiness, and handover.
What Required Skills You'Ll Bring
- Proven experience leading large, complex PMC or PMO assignments for mission critical infrastructure projects, within the data center sector.
- Strong capability in programme governance, risk management, and senior stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrated experience operating under FIDIC contracts, exercising independent and defensible professional judgment.
- Ability to manage multi package delivery environments with numerous consultants, contractors, and specialist vendors.
- Track record of maintaining delivery certainty under high commercial, operational, and schedule pressure.
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What Desired Skills You'Ll Bring
- Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years experience in Data Centre (DC) with relevant experience, education and trainings.
- Experience delivering hyperscale or enterprise data center campuses in phased, live environment conditions.
- Strong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and RFS readiness for mission critical facilities.
- Familiarity with digital project controls platforms (e.g., Procore, SmartSheets, SharePoint) and data driven reporting environments.
- Experience working within the Middle East regulatory, authority approval, and delivery landscape.
- Leadership presence capable of representing Parsons and the Employer credibly at executive, authority, and board level forums.
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