Project Manager – Data Centers

Company: Turner & Townsend
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As a Project Manager in the Data Centre team in London, you lead large-scale ground-up data centre projects for prominent technology clients across Europe. You’ll manage delivery from inception to commissioning, shaping governance, plans, budgets, and performance criteria. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, cross-functional leadership, and client interfacing, driving projects to meet time, cost, quality and safety targets. You work within Turner & Townsend’s entrepreneurial culture to deliver outcomes that align with the firm’s growth and vision for 2025. This is an opportunity to shape high-profile data centre programs while advancing your chartered career through impactful, end

Pay / Benefits

  • flexible working
  • healthy work-life balance
  • inclusive environment
  • opportunity to affect change

Responsibilities

  • Advise strategically at project conception on approaches to meet client objectives
  • Establish overall project success criteria across time, cost, technical and performance parameters
  • Plan and manage quality, safety, health and environment issues
  • Set up and maintain project governance, processes and systems
  • Produce detailed project plans and oversee procurement of resources
  • Lead cross-functional project teams and coordinate with stakeholders
  • Apply performance management tools and KPIs to improve project performance
  • Manage change control processes and project finances
  • Coordinate project information flow with client via meetings and reports
  • Produce formal project progress and related reports and interface with client and consultants

Key requirements

  • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred
  • Professionally qualified in construction, project management, engineering, or architecture
  • Chartered status achieved or on path to achieving it
  • Understanding of full project life cycle from conception to post-project review
  • Strong knowledge of project management concepts, tools, and techniques
  • Design, management or construction experience in general construction environments (residential, office, fit-outs, health & education)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • excellent communication
  • leadership
  • stakeholder management
  • project management concepts, tools and techniques
  • change control
  • quality and safety management

Posted: September 18th, 2026