Senior Design Execution Project Manager at Turner & Townsend

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Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy transforming performance in capital projects and programmes across real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources. They partner with organizations for net zero carbon and empower clients with digital soluti...

Enterprise B2B Consulting & Professional Services SAAS
HQ
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Team size
10K-50K
Founded
1946

Quick Summary

Role Overview

The Senior Design Execution Project Manager leads design activities for hyperscale data center construction projects for a major technology client. This role acts as the owner representative, managing design consultants through all phases until the project is handed over to the construction team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Facilitate planning workshops and design reviews with internal and external stakeholders
  • Author detailed scopes of work for contracts and obtain stakeholder buy-in
  • Issue and administer design contracts while tracking cost and schedule progress
  • Build optimal design teams by procuring external partners and managing internal stakeholders
  • Manage project scope changes and facilitate technical decisions to meet project needs
  • Coordinate design activities with procurement and construction teams to ensure seamless hand-offs

Requirements Snapshot

  • Bachelors degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field
  • Professional licensure such as PE, NCARB, or RA is strongly preferred
  • Minimum of ten years of professional experience in design or construction management
  • Prior experience with data center design or construction projects is preferred
  • Proficiency in AutoCAD for performing drawing reviews and mark-ups

Expected Impact

The successful candidate will ensure the successful localization and execution of hyperscale data center designs, bridging the gap between program-level planning and construction. By effectively managing consultants and technical decisions, they will maintain project schedules and budgets while delivering high-quality engineering information to construction teams.

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Job Description

Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Design Execution Project Manager to run the design activities related to Hyperscale Data Center construction and other projects for a large technology client. Serves as client's agent, consultant, advisor, and authorized owner's representative through all design phases and all design fields until hand-off to client's construction team. Most of the duties and responsibilities are associated with managing, coordinating, and administrating the client's design consultants used in the design efforts. This position is responsible for taking the program level Plan of Record and localizing the design. Ideal candidate is comfortable facilitating large design coordination meetings with multiple design subject areas, including "page turns" design meetings. etc.

This is a remote position with travel to project sites.

What you’ll do

  • Facilitate planning and kickoff workshops with internal & external stakeholders;
  • Facilitate design reviews in partnership with external partners;
  • Facilitate large scale workshops as necessary;
  • Author scopes of work for contracts and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders;
  • Issue and administer contracts;
  • Define and track deliverables from various parties;
  • Track of cost, schedule, progress and scope;
  • Provide health reporting on cost, schedule, scope and progress;
  • Build optimal design teams from matrixed internal stakeholders and the strategic procurement of external partners;
  • Change management for project scope and design contracts;
  • Facilitate technical decisions in-line with project needs;
  • Coordinate design activities with procurement and construction;
  • Provide clear and open communication with all internal stakeholder and external partners;
  • Ensure the issuance of engineering information to the right party, at the right time, in the right format.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field
  • Professional licensure (PE, NCARB, RA) is strongly preferred or significant professional experience (+10 years) may substitute
  • Prior experience with data center design and/or construction preferred
  • Strong understanding of construction principles and practices
  • Experience in the preparation of project plans, specifications
  • Experience drafting scopes of work
  • Experience of government regulations
  • Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Working understanding of AutoCAD is necessary for drawing reviews / mark-ups

Additional Information

 

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

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