Associate Director – Project Manager

Overview

In this role, you will support the delivery of complex data centre projects by coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and maintaining governance. You’ll work across hyperscale, colocation, and mission-critical environments, ensuring design deliverables and interfaces meet programme milestones. The position sits within Gleeds’ Data Centre team, offering exposure to industry-leading clients and a collaborative, growth-focused culture. This is a chance to shape critical infrastructure that underpins the digital economy.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• generous holiday allowance
• competitive salary with reviews
• Employee Assistance Programme
• global travel scholarship programme
• volunteering opportunities

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate design deliverables throughout the project lifecycle
• Track RFIs, technical queries, design actions and decisions
• Coordinate design review meetings, workshops and stakeholder engagements
• Maintain design review comment registers and closure of actions
• Support programme governance via reports, dashboards and status updates
• Develop and maintain project execution plans and design management documentation
• Coordinate interfaces between design consultants, contractors, and client teams
• Support design assurance for compliance with project requirements, standards and governance
• Monitor design progress against milestones and escalate risks
• Maintain project trackers, document control processes and reporting packs
• Contribute to continuous improvement and adoption of design management best practice
• Provide support across multiple projects within the wider programme

Key requirements

• Experience in an MEP engineering or multidisciplinary design consultancy
• Experience with data centre design and delivery (hyperscale or colocation preferred)
• Understanding of the RIBA Plan of Work (Stages 1–4)
• Experience coordinating Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) design activities
• Exposure to design management, programme coordination or project management in complex construction
• Experience with governance, reporting and programme controls (desirable)
• Knowledge of project execution planning (beneficial)

• Stakeholder engagement
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Organisational awareness
• MEP design coordination
• Design management
• Programme governance and controls

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