Senior Construction Manager

As a Senior Construction Manager at Digital Realty, you will play a key role in overseeing the planning, coordination, and delivery of data center construction projects-from new builds to fit-outs and upgrades. You will be responsible for ensuring projects are successfully delivered on time and within budget, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and customer satisfaction.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong understanding of data center construction principles and best practices, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

This position will also contribute to continuously improving the design, scope definition, and execution of our construction programs. The role is site-based, ensuring strong project governance and clear roles/responsibilities across any consultant support.

• Manage multiple data center construction projects and supporting infrastructure projects end-to-end (design, tendering, construction, commissioning/hand-over, etc.)
• Oversee and monitor on-site works and progress
• Communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders
• Lead and manage project teams
• Manage contracts and procurement processes
• Act as the owner of quality, schedule, cost, HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), and overall project delivery
• Manage and supervise contractors and service providers, providing guidance and support
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and proactively flag project savings/overruns to protect target values and ensure predictable capacity delivery to the business
• Promote and role-model a culture of continuous improvement, partnership, and teamwork through behaviors and communications

• Strong experience in construction project management, preferably in data centers or a similar mission-critical environment
• Strong experience with project management methodologies, including multi-project environments
• Proven experience in continuous process improvement, including defining and managing metrics and related KPIs
• Experience working in an international environment
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and decision-making skills
• Fluent English (spoken and written)

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. Platform DIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

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Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

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