Senior Project Manager - Saunderton
VIRTUS Data Centres
- High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Create and/or maintain best practices to identify and incorporate cost-effective solutions in line with specification requirements and report on KPIs.
- Manage the selection, contracting, and integration of multiple vendors and internal partners.
- Facilitate decision-making to drive solutions, and schedules, and manage change as required.
- Apply influence, strategies and negotiation skills to identify options and recommend solutions.
- Regularly review cost and KPI metrics, invoices, and 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, and cost managers, and integration lessons learned.
- Attend scheduled project meetings, and report as necessary.
- Deliver Project Progress status reports covering scope, schedule and budget as required to deliver schedule expectations including schedule health and metrics
- Ability to maintain a broader perspective, and identify and evaluate opportunities to enhance the business through cross-group collaboration.
- Provide Vendor oversight and performance management to deliver assigned projects.
- Preparation of Requests for Proposal (RFPs) including review and approval of vendor scope of work and design review of site and building plans.
- Validate vendor pay application and invoice review with the cost management/project controls team.
- 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 spending in line with approved business case capex and running change control on a weekly triage and then change control approval basis in line with project contingency.
- Provide Project Management support on any additional works and other sites where necessary.
- On target to deliver the data centres in line with the approved business plan in terms of time/quality/cost
- Has integrated with the wider VIRTUS team and worked with them where needed to help wider aspects of the project delivery
- Meeting reporting deadlines to the VP of Construction and the wider VIRTUS management team
- Operating in a self-sufficient manner on-site
- Experience in data centre project design and 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 Data centre design, and construction management experience.
- Self-starter with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously.
- The role is a hybrid working approach based on Virtus working principles, meaning the expectation is the role will be a blend of remote working and in-person meetings at Virtus office and Data centre locations as required to manage internal and external stakeholders to meet project design and construction milestones.
- The successful candidate will be expected to work within a diverse and inclusive team environment delivering large-scale enterprise projects with both localised and virtual team structures and be able to judge the most efficient method of working for the particular task or aspect of the role that is being conducted.
- Private healthcare
- Pension contribution scheme
- Eye and dental care benefit
- Discretionary bonus
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Annual travel card loan
- Tech Scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Workplace extras - Byond card and Extras discount