Senior Project Manager (MEP) - Data Centres
The opportunity
As a Senior Project Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
In this role you will:
- Lead the planning and delivery of complex data centre fit-out projects, managing programme, dependencies and resources
- Define the project delivery strategy and provide clear advice to the client
- Manage the project team and coordinate consultants, contractors and specialist suppliers
- Manage the building contract, including instructions, change control, contractor submissions and the assessment of programme impacts
- Maintain a regular site presence to verify progress, review quality and resolve delivery issues
- Act as the key link between the client, technical teams and senior leadership, managing expectations and driving decisions
- Report on project status, programme, cost, risks and actions required
- Develop mitigation strategies for significant project risks
- Promote the Linesight safety culture and monitor compliance with project and regulatory requirements
- Improve project management processes and support other teams across the portfolio
- Mentor junior project managers and build team capability
- Capture lessons learned and apply them to future projects.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have substantial experience managing MEP works on complex construction projects, ideally including data centres
- Understand major mechanical and electrical systems, how they interface on site, and the steps needed to commission and hand them over
- Are comfortable spending time on site, checking progress and quality, and working with the team to resolve issues
- Can lead project teams, manage client relationships and communicate clearly with both technical specialists and senior stakeholders. Thrive on building strong relationships with a sense of openness and fun
- Have experience managing programmes, risks, change and commercial matters
- Hold a relevant engineering or construction qualification, or have equivalent practical experience
- Have experience project managing on a data centre project
- Have a project management professional certification or are seeking one. We can help!
- Are detail oriented and quality focused
- Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Project Management
Our teams of program and project managers deliver success globally through strategic planning and stringent controls. Whether you have extensive experience or are at the early stages of your career in program or project management, we offer the opportunity to work on some of the most innovative buildings and facilities with world-leading clients. Play a central role in these projects as part of our dynamic team. We recognise the value that each team member can bring to the table, and we offer a range of supports, learning pathways and structured career planning cycles to ensure that every individual has the best opportunity to excel and further develop, regardless of the stage of your career you join us at.
Life at Linesight
