Civils Construction Manager- Data Centres

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description

Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Data Centre sector globally. Due to the continued success and expansion of our Data Centre business in the Nordics area we are currently recruiting for an experienced, site based Civils Construction Manager to join our site Data Centre team in the Oulu, Finland.

This position plans and conducts activities concerned with daily site duties such as the quality assurance and quality control of multiple construction contractors, overseeing work put in place to ensure industrial processes, materials and products by performing the following duties.

With a market leading client base and the opportunity to take the lead on strategic commissions and high-profile projects, this is an exciting time to join the business unit and grow a career with Turner & Townsend.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a suite of governance, communication and management control systems for the proper conduct and assured delivery of the client’s essential services and works.
• Review the organisation structures of the parties and recommend alignment measures
• Interface management between contractors
• Monitor overall team performance and initiate any required safety or performance improvement measures and methodologies.
• Monitor and audit compliance with the requirements of the management systems and report as required.
• Active engagement in the Project Risk Management process to continually identify project risks, actively assign and drive mitigation management activities.
• Initiate and conduct weekly technical and progress meetings relating to the services and works.
• Manage any client stage gateway reviews and attainment of conditions precedent to such approvals.
• Manage the attainment of design stage deliverables to schedule and quality that may be concurrent with any fast track works package procurements and associated permitting and approvals requirements.
• Conduct and lead site progress reviews on a daily basis to review HSE, logistics and progress against the programme.
• Produce formal reports on project progress measured against the baseline and milestone dates and agreed project-wide KPI’s.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on project progress for the Employer’s representative, prepare and conduct presentations as required.
• Manage and administer the relevant contracts affording appropriate protection of the client’s interests.
• Manage the timely issuance of company invoices and receipts against the agreed contract.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in construction, ideally with data centre and/or mission critical projects like - Pharma/ Life Sciences or Nuclear.
• University Degree or experience qualified in an engineering or construction related field
• Availability for on-site work
• Experience with co-ordination of of numerous sub-contractors.
• Excellent written, verbal and analytic skills
• Self-directed and able to function with ease as part of a team and to effectively collaborate with internal and external resources
• Leadership experience
• Understanding of specifications, project plans, and all other project related documents
• Computer skills, including Microsoft 365 and construction project management software
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Ability to multi-task and identify priority activities
• Possess the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and identify priority activities

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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