Construction Director - Data Centres

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Job Title: Construction Director - Data Centres.\n Location: London\n\nThis is your chance to join a world-class project management organisation delivering complex, high-value technical projects across the UK and Europe. With a respected global structure, industry-leading progression, and a pipeline of major hyperscale and colocation schemes, this is the perfect opportunity for you as a Construction Director who wants to build a long-term career at the top of the data centre sector.\n\nYou'll be joining a business known for investing heavily in its people, offering genuine international mobility, and giving you the autonomy to make decisions, drive contractor performance, and deliver outstanding results.\n\nWe are currently recruiting for the really exciting opportunity of a Construction Director, who will be responsible for delivery of Major Data Centre projects! Must have previous knowledge in:\n\nCommercial project performance exceeding plans when leading.\nCapturing of knowledge and sharing to support bids.\nExemplary service delivery to highest quality.Key Responsibilities:\n\nLeadership of Service Delivery:\n\nLead delivery of the service line on projects, taking responsibility for quality through the implementation of company standards.\nContribute to accurate workload forecasts.\nOwn successful outcomes of project audit reviews.\nLead full project planning, including development of project plans and work breakdown structures.\nClient Relationship Development:\n\nPlan and manage projects to meet client expectations, deliver client satisfaction, contracted outcomes and business objectives.\nManage opportunities with existing clients and develops new income streams.\nCommercial Leadership:\n\nWork in collaboration with Head of Services, developing proposals.\nManage business and project risk to ensure guaranteed outcomes and contract recognition.\nMitigate complex delivery risks.\nLeadership through inspiring others:\n\nEvaluate project performance of team members for personal development purposes giving feedback to Heads or Service and Team Leaders.\nProvide specific and regular project performance feedback to team members, Team Leaders and Heads of Service, supporting development and helping to achieve their performance objectives.\nKnowledge, engagement and enablement:\n\nFacility development of expertise, capturing and sharing delivery knowledge and specific information sets working closely with Service Experts.\nCaptures project lessons learnt after project close out and deliver details of lessons applied during project.\nUses best practice on project service delivery working closely with service experts.\nPreferred Backgrounds:\n\nCandidates with experience from specialist M&E contractors or data centre delivery teams are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you're looking for a role where you can take ownership, lead major technical projects, and step into a global career pathway-this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!\n\nAldwych Consulting values and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.\n\nCandidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.\n\nFor the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business