On-site Data Centre Project Manager - Madrid, España - Black Box

Descripción

**Black Box is hiring a Data Centre Project Manager in Madrid, Spain

The
Data Centre Project Manager **will work onsite and will be responsible for managing all onsite day to day activities of the data center cabling and infrastructure build.

This position reports directly to the Data Centre Program Director, and will be the key onsite leader to establish and run the Data Centre build project.

The Project Manager's primary responsibilities are
- overall leadership, direction-setting, delegation, and decision making for the onsite Data Centre team,
- to be the onsite point of contact to lead the data center build project,
- to ensure success of the project by making key decisions and balancing workload,
- to develop and execute consistent and repeatable runbooks, processes, and tools,
- to be able to track to a Balanced Scorecard with critical KPIs, and
- to establish and maintain strong relationships with the client leadership team.

This role will include duties for spend reporting, budgeting, strategic planning, staff development, and business partner relationships.

• Execute PMO standards, processes and methodologies in a consistent manner for project planning and execution activities including: scope definition and management; task and resource scheduling; cost and price budgeting; quality review and assurance; client relationship management; project team management; and overall change management.
• Mentor and manage the delivery and execution of data center project through a balance of bestinclass and pragmatic project methodologies and practices that achieve KPIs and meet or exceed business results, client satisfaction and SLAs.
• Direct all phases of project from inception through completion.
• Develop and administer the budgets, schedules, and technical performance standards.
• Participate in the negotiation of contract and contract changes.
• Oversee the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets, and financial terms/conditions of contract.
• Act as primary customer contact for project activities, leading project review sessions with clients to discuss overall performance.
• Establish milestones and monitor adherence to master plans and schedules, identify problems and obtain solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications.
• Direct the work of employees assigned to the project from technical, professional, or administrative areas.
• Issue and communicate project status to leadership, steering committee and other stakeholders as appropriate.
• Onboard team members to the program, facilitating orientation and training on key processes and tools.
• Manage project issues/risks in a timely manner, escalating when necessary.
• Foster collaborative working relationships within Data Centre Program & Operations and across all levels and departments of the organization to execute program management activities and company priorities.
• Promote continuous growth of project management practices within the organization to achieve client and organizational objectives.
• Achieve performance targets established by leadership for applicable Key Performance Indicators.
• Act as pointofescalation for the project.
• Manage change control process and scope in accordance with mutually agreed Change Management process.
• Manage Project control fundamentals: monitoring, anticipating potential problems, identifying project conflicts, taking corrective action, resolving issues, managing scope, schedule, cost, profit and budget, project reporting, quality review and assurance. Issue and communicate program status to leadership, steering committee and other stakeholders as appropriate.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, relevant experience
• Area of Study / Degree: BA, Project Management, Engineering, IT or business is desired but not required
• Certifications Preferred: PMP, RCDD, DCDC
• 10 years minimum work experience
• 7+ years' experience managing largescale / Hyperscale data center implementations
• 5+ years' experience working with General Contractors and other trades.
• Consulting experience a plus

**Skills & Abilities: - Strong working knowledge of large-scale (i.e. > 500,000 sq. ft.) data center infrastructure (i.e. structured cabling, networking, rack-and-stack, etc.), gained from prior experience as Project Manager working in the data center environment.

• Strong leadership, decisionmaking, and delegation skills are a must. The work environment is a highpaced environment and will require a poised, strong leader to keep the team ontrack, motivated, and moving in the same direction.
• Minimum of 10 years Project Management experience within the technology services industry which includes: overseeing multiple prime contracts; preparing and delivering briefings and recommendations to leadership on a regular basis; managing complex customer requirements across all asp