About this opportunity
Project Manager – Data Centres
• Consultant to Executive level
• London (Mixture of home, office, and client sites)
• Permanent
• Full-time with flexible working and core hours
Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1875, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are a Great Place to work accredited employer, with our people at the heart of everything we do.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring Project Manager with a MEP or Design background to join Gleeds' rapidly growing Data Centre team, supporting the delivery of some of the world's most complex and high-profile digital infrastructure projects.
Working alongside industry-leading clients, consultants and contractors, you will play a key role in coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, managing design deliverables, tracking technical queries and supporting programme governance across fast-paced, mission-critical environments. With exposure to hyperscale, colocation and cutting-edge data centre developments, you'll gain invaluable experience at the forefront of an industry that underpins the global digital economy, while developing your project management skills within a collaborative, people-focused consultancy renowned for delivering excellence across the built environment.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Manage and coordinate design deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Track Requests for Information (RFIs), technical queries, design actions and outstanding decisions.
• Coordinate design review meetings, workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Maintain design review comment registers and ensure actions are tracked through to closure.
• Support programme governance through the preparation of reports, dashboards and project status updates.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of project execution plans and design management documentation.
• Coordinate interfaces between design consultants, contractors and client-side project teams.
• Support design assurance activities, ensuring compliance with project requirements, standards and governance processes.
• Monitor design progress against programme milestones and escalate risks where appropriate.
• Maintain project trackers, document control processes and reporting packs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and the adoption of design management best practice.
• Provide support across multiple projects within the wider programme as business priorities evolve.