Role Overview
The Project Director – Data Centre is the client’s senior representative responsible for providing overall leadership, governance, and strategic oversight of data centre developments from early planning and design through construction, commissioning, and handover.
The Project Director ensures that all appointed consultants, contractors, and vendors deliver in alignment with client objectives, programme milestones, cost parameters, quality standards, and operational readiness requirements typical of mission-critical facilities.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Governance
- Provide overall leadership and governance for one or multiple data centre projects or campuses.
- Act as the primary senior point of contact between the client and the project delivery ecosystem.
- Establish and enforce project governance frameworks, reporting structures, and decision-making protocols.
- Ensure alignment between client business objectives, technical requirements, and delivery strategies.
Project Planning & Pre-Construction Oversight
- Oversee site selection support, feasibility studies, master planning, and early works strategies.
- Lead PMC oversight of design development, ensuring constructability, scalability, redundancy, and operational resilience are embedded.
- Guide pre-construction planning to optimise programme, cost, logistics, and phased delivery for data centre readiness milestones.
Programme, Cost & Risk Management
- Define and manage baseline programme, budget, and risk registers at project and portfolio levels.
- Monitor progress against key milestones such as:
- Identify and proactively manage strategic risks impacting schedule, cost, quality, or commissioning outcomes.
- Provide informed recommendations to the client on mitigation strategies and recovery plans.
Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Leadership
- Ensure HSE requirements are fully integrated into all phases of project delivery.
- Champion a proactive safety culture across consultants, contractors, and vendors.
- Ensure compliance with statutory, client, and international HSE standards applicable to mission-critical facilities.
Technical, Quality & Commissioning Oversight
- Provide high-level oversight of design, engineering, and technical assurance processes.
- Ensure quality management systems and inspection regimes are effectively implemented.
- Oversee testing, commissioning, and integrated systems testing (IST) readiness in alignment with client operational requirements.
- Ensure handover documentation, asset data, and as-built records meet client and operational standards.