Project Manager

About CloudHQ: CloudHQ is a global leader in digital infrastructure, designing, building, and operating large-scale hyperscale and colocation data centres across North America, EMEA, Asia, and South America. Founded by a pioneer in data centre REITs, CloudHQ delivers flexible, efficient, and resilient data centre solutions that empower the world’s largest technology companies.

Role Overview: The Project Manager will be a critical member of the CloudHQ (CHQ) Development across the EMEA region, responsible for the pre-construction phase of hyperscale data centre projects. The Project Manager is responsible for leading projects from site identification and due diligence through planning, design development, and contractor procurement, ensuring that projects are fully defined, supported by robust cost planning and commercial decision-making to ensure that they are de-risked prior to construction. While focused on pre-construction, the role requires a strong understanding of the full project lifecycle- construction delivery, commissioning, and operations, ensuring early decisions translate into successful project execution. This position requires a developer mindset, balancing technical, commercial, planning, and stakeholder considerations to inform project decisions and define project directions at the earliest stages.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish project leadership, build and leverage partnerships with internal teams (development, construction, operations, finance, legal) and external stakeholders (consultants, authorities having jurisdiction, utilities providers, project partners, contracts)
• Lead project governance, reporting and approvals processes
• Ensure clear communication of project status, risks and identify where key decisions can be made or escalation to executive leadership is required
• Lead projects from early-stage feasibility through to construction readiness
• Define and manage scope, budget, programme, and development strategy
• Lead and coordinate site due diligence, working with site selection, legal, technical and consultant teams to ascertain:
• Test-fit feasibility with regard to tenant requirements, planning and zoning constraints
• Power, water, fibre and infrastructure availability
• Environmental, legal, commercial and technical risks
• Confirm alignment with project business cases and manage internal investment approvals
• Subsequently, with technical teams, lead the development of concept, basis of design
• Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary consultants (architects, engineers, planners)
• With consultant support, develop and manage development budgets and ensure cashflow alignment
• Coordination and management of internal and external resources, and driving results in:
• Change management
• Procurement, confirming strategies, scope definitions and ensure Employer’s Requirements are compiled with
• Pro-active management of market conditions and ensure agile approach to adaption (supply chain, contractor availability, utilities constraints)
• Goal alignment/Stakeholder management
• Risk identification and ensuring appropriate mitigation measures are in place
• Establish reporting protocols on scope and schedule as required, ensuring effective reporting to senior leadership
• Ensure establishment of a robust and detailed project programme that can be used to negotiate lease agreements with hyperscale tenants
• Ensure delivery awareness, applying practical understandings of construction sequencing and logistics, commissioning and integration of systems to be able to handover to operational teams
• Ensure projects are fully prepared for construction delivery prior to handover, liaising with the construction delivery team to ensure continuity and intent is preserved
• Ensuring compliance to Environmental, Health