Pre-Construction Senior Project Manager - Data Centres

Overview

As a Pre-Construction Senior Project Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand 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.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Outline the core vision, functional requirements, SMART goals, and primary deliverables of the project

• Detail land surveys, geotechnical / soil testing, utility mapping, and structural assessments to identify site constraints early

• Cover architectural and engineering design development, Building Information Modeling (BIM), code compliance checks, and value engineering to optimize cost and quality

• Specifiy milestone estimates (e.g., at 30%, 60%, or 90% design sets), quantity takeoffs, cashflow projections, and contingency or allowance planning

• Establish the pre-construction timeline, master project roadmap, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and critical path milestones

• List required zoning reviews, environmental impact assessments, building permits, and local authority approvals

• Detail the creation of tender documents, Request for Proposals (RFPs), subcontractor pre-qualification, bid leveling, and early long-lead material procurement

• Define risk registers, safety reviews and stakeholder reporting protocols.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have Data Centre / mission-critical / complex construction experience ​

• Have strong experience from RIBA 0–4 ​

• Have client-side or consultancy Project Manager experience ​

• Have tender management and contractor appointment ​

• Have risk, change and stakeholder management ​

• Have an understanding of construction methodology and constructability ​

• Have experience taking projects from concept through to construction readiness

• Are a Chartered Building Surveyor / Design Manager / equivalent (desirable)​

• Have design development, building regulations, planning experience (desirable) ​

• Have procurement experience (desirable)

• Have international / EMEA project experience (desirable)

• Experience with complex utilities, power or infrastructure interfaces (desirable).​

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!

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