Technical Project Manager (Data Centres)

Overview

Manage technical delivery of data centre projects from due diligence to handover for a major tech client.

Key Responsibilities

• cost control
• risk mitigation
• due diligence
• fit-out
• value engineering
• qa/qc

Tasks

Support the setup of engineering programmes including auditing, constructability reviews, and optioneering studies. As a Technical Project Manager, you'll take responsibility for project delivery from due diligence through to fit-out and handover, acting as the single point of contact between the client, contractors, and internal engineering teams. Assist in scoping, buying-out, and scheduling all direct vendors and consultants. Ensure all relevant health, safety, and environmental standards are being followed, escalating gaps where necessary. Oversee the full project lifecycle - cost control, change management, delay analysis, and risk mitigation. You'll combine technical understanding with project governance and leadership, ensuring every aspect of delivery meets the client's performance, quality, and compliance expectations. Track submittals, RFIs, design changes, and site deliverables across disciplines (electrical, mechanical, architectural, and civil). Monitor and report on construction progress, ensuring adherence to programme and compliance with client standards. Coordinate technical due diligence of third-party data centres (site assessments, utility availability, capacity studies, risk and compliance reviews). Coordinate the transition to fit-out and commissioning, ensuring readiness of technical documentation and testing protocols. Manage final acceptance, handover, and post-completion audits, ensuring all client sign-offs and authority approvals are achieved. Be part of the global delivery programme for one of the world's biggest tech clients. Work across high-security, mission-critical environments with exposure to leading-edge design and technology. Coordinate value engineering initiatives, ensuring efficient technical and financial outcomes. Support engineering teams with audits, punch lists, and close-out deliverables including as-builts, O&M manuals, and warranty packs. You'll be working client-side under strict Non-Disclosure Agreements, supporting the global expansion of hyperscale and colocation data centre capacity across EMEA. These projects are high-value, technically complex, and central to the digital infrastructure powering the world's biggest tech platforms. Manage contractor and consultant performance through structured governance, QA/QC reviews, and progress reporting. Lead bid analysis, contractor prequalification, and negotiation of commercial and technical terms. -Support the setup of engineering programmes including auditing, constructability reviews, and optioneering studies. -Assist in scoping, buying-out, and scheduling all direct vendors and consultants. -Ensure all relevant health, safety, and environmental standards are being followed, escalating gaps where necessary. -Oversee the full project lifecycle - cost control, change management, delay analysis, and risk mitigation. -Track submittals, RFIs, design changes, and site deliverables across disciplines (electrical, mechanical, architectural, and civil). -Monitor and report on construction progress, ensuring adherence to programme and compliance with client standards. -Coordinate technical due diligence of third-party data centres (site assessments, utility availability, capacity studies, risk and compliance reviews). -Coordinate the transition to fit-out and commissioning, ensuring readiness of technical documentation and testing protocols. -Manage final acceptance, handover, and post-completion audits, ensuring all client sign-offs and authority approvals are achieved. -Be part of the global delivery programme for one of the world's biggest tech clients. -Work across high-security, mission-critical environments with exposure to leading-edge design and technology. -Coordinate value engineering initiatives, ensuring efficient technical and financial outcomes. -Support engineering teams with audits, punch lists, and close-out deliverables including as-builts, O&M manuals, and warranty packs. -Manage contractor and consultant performance through structured governance, QA/QC reviews, and progress reporting. -Lead bid analysis, contractor prequalification, and negotiation of commercial and technical terms.

Requirements

• 5+ years
• mep systems
• stakeholder mgmt
• vendor mgmt
• project software
• chartered

What You Bring

5+ years' experience in project management or technical delivery (consultancy, client-side, or main contractor). Strong technical understanding of MEP systems, commissioning, and critical environment infrastructure. Excellent stakeholder management, documentation, and communication skills. You'll bring a blend of technical engineering insight and project management leadership, ideally gained within a data centre, critical infrastructure, or complex M&E environment. Experience managing vendor interfaces, audits, and due diligence for colocation or hyperscale data centres. Proficient in project management software (MS Project, Primavera, Aconex, or similar). Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline (Chartered status desirable). -5+ years' experience in project management or technical delivery (consultancy, client-side, or main contractor). -Strong technical understanding of MEP systems, commissioning, and critical environment infrastructure. -Excellent stakeholder management, documentation, and communication skills. -Experience managing vendor interfaces, audits, and due diligence for colocation or hyperscale data centres. -Proficient in project management software (MS Project, Primavera, Aconex, or similar). -Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline (Chartered status desirable).

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Benefits

Competitive package: £100k + discretionary bonus + pension + full benefits. Clear progression pathway to Associate and Director levels. Work within a consultancy that genuinely values its people - collaborative culture, professional development, and recognition. Close-Out / Fit-Out Stage Hybrid flexibility (Ideally 2-3 days in the office - Mandatory attendance for workshops and training) -Competitive package: £100k + discretionary bonus + pension + full benefits. -Clear progression pathway to Associate and Director levels. -Opportunity to travel the world - You may have to occassionally visit the projects you are working on. -Work within a consultancy that genuinely values its people - collaborative culture, professional development, and recognition. -Hybrid flexibility (Ideally 2-3 days in the office - Mandatory attendance for workshops and training)

About Mcg Construction

-This team evolved into a UK‑wide recruitment and logistics powerhouse bridging skilled trades and project sites. -They place trades and professional staff across commercial, residential, education, hotels, leisure, healthcare, data centre, industrial, energy, and infrastructure builds. -Their logistics arm supplies cabins, hoists, fencing, forklifts, pumps, generators, and more — all maintained to high safety and performance standards. -Typical projects span urban developments, school builds, hospital expansions, energy facilities, and large‑scale civils sites. -They stand out by being a single‑point provider: staffing and logistics under one roof, saving clients time, risk, and coordination overhead. -Their route to stand‑out status comes from tight integration — everything from labour to plant is managed in lockstep. -Operating regional hubs in Watford, London, Manchester, and Sheffield, they offer local insights with national reach.

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