Principal Project Manager - Data Centres

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Location(s):

Madrid, ES

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Discipline: Project programme and commercial management

Job Ref: 16274

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

As a Principal Project Manager, you will provide strategic leadership across a portfolio of major data centre developments, acting as a senior advisor to clients and executive stakeholders.

You will be responsible for leading the delivery of some of the most complex and high-value mission-critical infrastructure programmes, driving project excellence while supporting business growth, client development and operational leadership.

What you will contribute to the team:

• Lead major hyperscale data centre programmes from planning through construction, commissioning and handover
• Serve as Executive Project Lead on high-profile client engagements
• Develop and maintain senior client relationships across investors, developers, operators and contractors
• Provide strategic oversight of project governance, risk management and delivery performance
• Lead project directors, senior project managers and multidisciplinary teams
• Provide executive-level reporting and strategic advice to client leadership teams
• Identify and manage programme-level risks, opportunities and commercial considerations
• Support business development, market growth and key