Senior Project Manager - Electrical

Senior Project Manager – Electrical

Equans Data Centers is seeking to appoint a Senior Project Manager – Electrical to support our growing Data Centre business.

Overview

We are committed to providing cutting‑edge solutions for our clients\’ data centre facilities and are recruiting a Senior Project Manager – Electrical to join our innovative team. The role involves managing a team and the electrical aspects of large projects from inception to completion, within set timescales, to high quality standards and within health and safety guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to ensure work is carried out in full conformance with quality, environmental and safety standards.
• Be an expert and provide guidance and direction to ensure operational excellence.
• Coordinate and control the on‑site construction process ensuring the site build progresses in line with plan.
• Develop and agree electrical submission and approval process with the client and design team.
• Support the overall programming and planning of the build.
• Attend site meetings, effectively communicate and provide information for Progress Reports.
• Chair and minute the subcontractor meetings.
• Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management.
• Operational support including review of procedures, best practices and initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience working with a main contractor or large subcontractor.
• Proven people management experience of managing teams.
• Have the ability to mentor and develop team members.
• Proven technical knowledge of Electrical Services.
• Knowledge and skills to effectively problem solve.
• Be self‑motivated, with proven organisational ability and the drive to meet deadlines.
• Customer focused with the ability to communicate effectively with clients.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Commercially astute.
• Experience in the data centres sector is desirable.
• Degree of equivalent in an Electrical discipline is desirable.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
• Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary
• Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalised support programmes
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
• Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

Who We Are

We are a strategic data centre partner delivering every aspect of general contractor design, build, and commissioning for major data centres across Europe to provide new build, fit‑out, complex retrofit and upgrade through one point of contact. Leveraging decades of experience with Bouygues Energies & Services and Equans in data centres, we deliver to every aspect of client needs through sustainability, health and safety, and wider engineering considerations. At Equans Data Centers, we’re unique in our ability to bring clients complete in‑house expertise across many facets of consulting, architecture, construction, and engineering. We are a true combination of global standardisation and local on‑the‑ground expert teams in every key European country to ensure the right level of localisation. We have total control of our supply chain, with the robustness of a global and European leader in construction behind us. And our most highly qualified and expert teams are focused on client success above all. This enables us to deliver data centres with the best possible quality, speed to delivery, and high repeatability and scalability – to realise client needs for cost transparency, low risk, continual availability, innovation, and certainty of planning and outcomes. With more than 1,200 highly skilled employees, across 8 European countries, Equans has delivered over 300,000m2 of data halls, exceeding 500MW of IT space for major Data Centers providers such as VIRTUS Data Centers, Digital Reality, Equinix, Vantage Data Centers, Stack Infrastructure, Cloud HQ and many others. Equans Data Centers is positioned to meet and exceed the increasingly demanding planning and capacity needs of hyperscaler and colocation businesses across Europe.

Legal & Other

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re‑location package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The EQUANS Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to EQUANS Managers.

Employment Details

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Project Management and Information Technology