Senior Project Manager – Data Center

About the Job: In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. At the company, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Job Description: The company is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Project Manager - Data Centers to join our team! In this role, you will lead, govern, and deliver a large-scale, mission-critical data center programme. Key Responsibilities: - 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. - 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. - Drive a quality-first delivery approach, ensuring QAQC processes support long-term operational reliability, maintainability, and performance. - Lead coordination with the Engineer of Record (EoR) and Commissioning Agent, maintaining single-point accountability for integration, readiness, and handover. Required Skills: - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline. - 15+ years of experience in Data Centre management with relevant experience, education, and training. - Experience delivering hyperscale or enterprise data center campuses in phased, live-environment conditions. - 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. Desired Skills: - 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. The company promotes diversity and inclusion at all job levels, ensuring representation regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. We truly invest in and care about our employee’s well-being and provide endless growth opportunities. Join the company's quest—APPLY TODAY!