Delivery Manager

Join Kao Data as a Delivery Manager
- Drive Excellence in AI-Focused Data Centres! Kao Data leads the industry, pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With a hyperscale-inspired and industrial scale platform, we provide our customers with a secure, scalable, and sustainable home for their compute. The Kao Data Operations team, particularly the Data Centre Operations team, fully own and manage all operation live environments, ensuring all critical infrastructure supporting client systems remain secure, reliable and always available.

The team oversees power, cooling, fire suppression, cabling and environmental stability, while proactively managing capacity and leading all preventive and corrective maintenance through rigorous change management process working with all internal/external stakeholders. They manage the Engineering Services Provider to guarantee 100% uptime and work across Kao Data to uphold compliance, governance and stakeholder satisfaction. With responsibility for CAPEX delivery, lifecycle replacements and financial accountability, Operations also partner with Design and Construction teams to ensure seamless project handovers.

They work closely with our Customer Service, QHSE, Compliance, Security and Implementation teams delivering operational excellence and are the first point of escalation for incidents, the function ensures accurate reporting, transparent communication and uninterrupted service for customers.

We are looking for a Delivery Manager to be responsible for coordinating and delivering data centre projects through design and construction phases, ensuring alignment with programme, cost and quality objectives. The Delivery Manager will review project processes, ensure appropriate approvals are obtained and procedures are being followed and identify any issues / gaps.

• The end-to-end delivery management of multiple data centre projects and maintain updated budgets, schedules, and status reports for each.
• Create and communicate updates on development program & project status monthly suitable for executive level reviews.
• Effectively present information in a manner to support efficient decision making.
• Work with Kao stakeholders, operations, design, and construction teams to support the development and maintenance of site-wide capital replacement programmes.
• Implement and manage multi-phased site development plans to achieve time, budget, and quality standards in a predictable fashion.
• Continuously update a campus comprehensive plan to provide predictable statistics in a dynamic environment.
• Responsibility for the programme planning which outlines the required work streams needed to set up the project and management of said SME work streams, including mapping their dependencies.
• Monitor & create project budget / cost-to-date against overall project budget.
• Collation and Development of the scope documents required to appoint the appropriate external professional service teams on the project.
• Lead, manage and monitor performance of the professional services teams and contractors for design, construction, commissioning services & participate in procurement and project cost estimates and advise on appropriate solutions to best meet the dynamic aims and objectives of a programme driven by changing customer demands in line with Kao’s governance and delivery process.
• Lead weekly and monthly internal stakeholder design and construction meetings reviewing project progress and external professional services and contractor performance and key decisions required from internal stakeholders.
• Evaluate and level pricing proposals for design, construction, and commissioning services.
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