Director (Data Centres)

As a Director (Data Centres) – you will lead highly experienced teams and be responsible for managing all aspects of client development and oversight of large-scale data centre projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This role involves strategic planning, growth, team leadership, risk management, and effective communication with stakeholders.

The opportunity will build on your vast industry experience, which will open doors for you, extend your skill-set, and broaden your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us, lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

• Project Planning and Development: Use your client relationship and business development skills to engage new clients as well as repeat projects with existing clients through partnership and trust. Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with your team internally and the client senior management and stakeholders. Oversee comprehensive project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation. Advocate for elevating our project management capabilities through standardisation and automation across the project.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage project teams on continuous improvement techniques and standard methods for reporting results, including project managers, cost managers, engineers, schedulers, safety managers, and more. Assign tasks and responsibilities and ensure effective communication and collaboration among team members. Foster a collaborative and productive work environment. Drive Company Standards uniformly as it regards to Project & Program Delivery by all project participants on all projects. Assist with the recruitment process for further expansion and growth.
• Budget and Cost Management: Oversee comprehensive project budgets. Monitor project costs and implement cost-control measures to ensure financial efficiency and address any discrepancies.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders. Maintain strong relationships and provide regular updates on project progress. Ensure client satisfaction at every stage of the project, taking key actions to resolve issues as required.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have experience in data centre construction with higher levels of leadership and people management.
• Have a degree or comparable experience in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or another construction-related discipline.
• Are Chartered or a member of a registered construction affiliate board or society (SCSI/RICS).
• Have a passion for building a global team and developing and encouraging your employees through mentoring, coaching, and training on new techniques.
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About Us: Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility: Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application – we would love to hear from you!