Technical Senior Project Manager - Data Centres

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: 

• Support the Engineering and SME’s team who are looking for our Portfolio of potential DC sites by providing technical project management support and assist them in meeting all project goals by carrying out specific, delegated relationship management tasks including, but not limited to developers, landowners, power grid and energy companies, telecommunications companies, other utility companies or contractors
• Manage logistics for meetings to accomplish project goals and/or to resolve outstanding issues with the project. Administration that include, but are not limited to the coordinating of calendars and the scheduling of meetings with internal and external parties
• Facilitate project meetings by creating and managing documentation and communications, i.e., agenda, action item log, decision log
• Drive communications among project team members including identifying, creating and updating project resources/ tools (project trackers, risk register GANTT chart, etc…).

Due diligence / Preconstruction phase

• Support Contractor pre-qualification, bid solicitation, bid analysis and recommendations
• Support Contract negotiation, typically in concert with Client’s DC engineering SMEs, other Client’s PMs and legal counsel, including establishment of all GC “business terms” including mark-ups, fees, insurance, labour rates, escalation, etc
• Coordinate specific engineering programs, such as, but not limited to:
  • the technical due diligence of third party data centre
  • third party data centre auditing program, including as minimum the required assistance in scheduling, collecting information and delivering the corresponding audit reports.
• Coordinate Constructability review of the project documents
• Assist Client in identifying, scoping, buying-out and scheduling of all Client-direct vendors and consultants
• Coordinate Due Diligence activities including:
  • Tracking and maintaining database of site submittals from various intake channels
  • Coordinating team work plans and checklists for compliance with execution plans
  • Coordination of reviews and feedback with internal teams
  • Coordinating activities among external partner teams (legal, engineering, consulting, etc.) and counterparties
  • Assisting with data collection for candidate sites/locations
  • Audit and review of work product
  • Standardize work product deliveries for consistency in format
  • Preliminary QA of diligence work product from vendors, E.I. flag issues for review.
• Develop a full understanding of client systems, related processes and their dependencies in order to suggest and implement improvements.

Construction

• Manage Cost / Change Control, including change order review, negotiation, & recommendations, delay analysis
• Coordinate Value Engineering
• Schedule monitoring, tracking and analysis
• Document control (track and coordinate addenda, bulletins, new drawing sets, clarifications, etc)
• Ensure QA/QC is being followed and report any issues/gaps
• Invoice / Payment Application processing, tracking and reporting
• Tracking of all key project documents, including submittals, RFI’s, change orders, invoices and payments, lien releases, etc
• Coordination and management of all Client-direct vendors, and consultants
• Ensure all relevant HSE aspects are being followed and report any issues/gaps.

Close out / Fit up

• Coordinate with the different internal stakeholders and engineering teams the implementation of the close out strategy
• Support close out process engineering tasks, prior to project completion, typically two to three months in advance
• Establish close out documentation requirements. Collect and track receipt of all close out documents until completion, including warranties, as-builts, O&M manuals, etc
• Assist with City and/or other Authority final inspections and occupancy process
• Manage punch list, substantial completion and final completion process
• Assist engineering teams with the negotiation, resolution and close out any outstanding change orders, quality issues or disputes
• Assist Client in scheduling, coordination and management of all Client-direct vendors, consultants.

We would love to hear from you if you: 

• Have experience project managing on a data centre project or major utility infrastructure project or mission critical projects
• Have a project management professional certification or are seeking one.  We can help 
• Have a degree or comparable experience in a Utility or technical project management or construction discipline
• Are detail oriented, driven, curious and quality focused 
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• An English speaker, additional languages skills would be a plus
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun.