Senior Project Manager - Data Centers

Parsons Corporation

What You'll Be Doing:

• Serve as the overall lead for the PMC, with accountability for safety, schedule, cost, quality, and delivery outcomes across all project phases

• Act as the primary senior interface with the Employer, leading governance forums, escalation processes, and strategic decision making.br>Establish and implement a disciplined project governance framework, including reporting cadence, controls, dashboards, and decision logs.

• Lead and integrate a multi disciplinary PMC team (construction, technical, commercial, planning, HSE, commissioning), ensuring clarity of roles and accountability.

• Oversee the development and execution of the Project Execution Plan, ensuring alignment with Employer standards, global design requirements, and RFS commitments.

• Manage programme certainty, ensuring early identification of risks, protected commissioning milestones, and timely escalation of schedule threats with recovery strategies.

• Provide senior oversight of FIDIC contract administration, ensuring fair, impartial determinations while safeguarding the Employer s commercial and risk position.

• Ensure HSE leadership is embedded across all stakeholders, championing a zero harm culture where no commercial or schedule pressure compromises safety.

• Drive a quality first delivery approach, ensuring QAQC processes support long term operational reliability, maintainability, and performance.br>Lead coordination with the Engineer of Record (EoR) and Commissioning Agent, maintaining single point accountability for integration, readiness, and handover.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Proven experience leading large, complex PMC or PMO assignments for mission critical infrastructure projects, within the data center sector.

• Strong capability in programme governance, risk management, and senior stakeholder engagement.

• Demonstrated experience operating under FIDIC contracts, exercising independent and defensible professional judgment.

• Ability to manage multi package delivery environments with numerous consultants, contractors, and specialist vendors.

• Track record of maintaining delivery certainty under high commercial, operational, and schedule pressure.

br>What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.

• 10+ years experience in Data Centre (DC) with relevant experience, education and trainings.

• Experience delivering hyperscale or enterprise data center campuses in phased, live environment conditions.

• Strong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and RFS readiness for mission critical facilities.

• Familiarity with digital project controls platforms (e.g., Procore, SmartSheets, SharePoint) and data driven reporting environments.

• Experience working within the Middle East regulatory, authority approval, and delivery landscape.

• Leadership presence capable of representing Parsons and the Employer credibly at executive, authority, and board level forums.