OFE/FIA Owner’s Representative - Data Centres (Nordics) in Birmingham

Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

Our FIA/OFE OR will be responsible for leading and managing both Field Integration & Assembly (FIA) and Owner-Furnished Equipment (OFE). As the client’s Owner’s Representative (OR), also known as the Project Management Consultant (PMC), it is key that the individual has strong project management experience with a key focus in Delivery Management and Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management.

The scope of service will not be limited to just one project but will support multiple projects of various sizes and at different stages.

You can be based either 100% in country, or there will be significant international travel to Norway or Finland

Role accountabilities:

include but not limited to

Key Information:

• Field Integration & Assembly (FIA): The PMC oversees conveyance products, such as modules connecting various critical products.
• Owner-Furnished Equipment (OFE) ; Specifies purpose procured equipment to suit specifications across the site.

PMC OFE/FIA Project Manager: Key Responsibilities

The role requires ensuring the requirements of the stage process are met and involves the following core responsibilities:

• Maintain the project-specific vendor sandbox with Time to Site (TTS) durations.
• Update the external schedule with Time to Site (TTS) and Time to Deploy (TTD) durations.
• Promote schedule risk communication using scenario-based schedule analysis.
• A key focus for this role is Delivery Management and Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management.
• Provide feedback on cost estimates and gather cost estimates from vendors at relevant stages for submission to the Owner’s commercial team.
• Manage the FIA and OFE Product/Equipment Status Tracker’s.
• Ensure Products are commissioned at the factory (FAT) and delivered to site with Sign off .
• Manage the development and input of the FIA/OFE vendors to meet schedule requirements.
• Validate Contractor assessments on constructability, Move in , Move out (MIMO), and logistics.
• Manage project risk, report any Early Warnings to the PMC system and lead Risk & Escalation.
• Manage design changes and ensure the rollout is captured via the PMC process.
• Scope Management ,Review Scopes of Work (SOW) for PMC and Vendor Deliverables.
• Ensure and check Interface and integrations with site contractors for “trade to trade” handover.
• Experience with FIA/OFE products, including: data hall perimeter, trestle interconnects, PCW headers, Electrical Room skids, Fire Alarm, Generator set , Fuel systems , Fill System Connections, and System Connections.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• Project Management background
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. ( Minimum of a HNC “Higher National Certificate” in relative field)
• Data Centre Experience ( Hyperscale would be advantageous ) .
• Consulting experience ( PMC experience would be advantageous, although time served would be acceptable )
• Quality control
• Change Management
• Delivery program Management
• Autodesk ( ACC)
• OFE experience
• FIA experience

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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