About the role

Project Lead - Data Centre

As a Project lead - Data Centre you will be a part of a creative, diverse team tasked with solving fascinating problems constructing Data Centres. Our data centres are industry-leading examples of energy efficient, cost-effective designs. You will work alongside partner teams such as Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to build Data Centres that directly support our customers. As our Project lead - Data Centre, you will build some of the most interesting electrical and mechanical systems in the world. You will be on the construction site daily interacting with the construction trades, as owner’s representative and be directly responsible for driving cost, schedule, and quality while managing construction vendors and contractors building data centres.

At Capitaland, we are all Owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the design review to construction bidding to construction execution and final hand-off to our customers. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of engineers and managers working daily to develop innovative data centres for our customers.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for construction project management and oversight of construction related activities as they relate to new builds or general capital projects which includes the ownership of the project scope, quality, schedule, and budget.

Designation:

Project Lead

Location:

Chennai

Experience:

15 years of data centre experience only

Key Responsibilities (KRA’s):

Direct interface with construction general contractors during the bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
Create construction project scope and request for proposals.
Financial analysis of construction.
Construction project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centres.
Constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centres or optimization of existing data centres.
Construction document management including submittal review, RFI’s, change orders, and invoicing.
Construction project quality control.
Record and report key construction metrics to team members and management.
Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis associated with equipment failures.
Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data centre.