Lead the integrated construction program for a hyperscale data center campus, coordinating multiple projects, contractors, consultants, utilities, customers, commissioning teams, and equipment vendors. Responsibilities include schedule integration, critical path and risk analysis, program governance, contractor performance monitoring, delay and extension-of-time analysis, reporting, recovery planning, and campus-wide delivery strategy.
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As the Program Manager - Construction, you will lead the integrated programme of multiple projects across the SYD3 campus. Reporting to the Project Director, you will work closely with Development, Design, and Commissioning teams as well as the General Contractor to ensure the campus programme is managed accurately and all customer programme requirements are satisfied under the relevant agreements to AirTrunk's world-class quality standards.
You will provide strategic support to Project Managers and Site Design Managers while coordinating General Contractors, consultants, utilities and Owner Supplied Equipment (OSE) vendors programmes to achieve campus-wide delivery objectives.
Your Impact
- Provide expert advice to the Project team in strategy and decision making for the Syd3 campus
- Successfully manage all upstream customer programmes ensuring programme accuracy with works on site, General Contractor programmes , OSE vendor programmes and utility programmes
- Identify programme risks and opportunities across the campus
- Effectively evaluate Contractor programmes through project life cycle
- Provide delay and EOT analysis both downstream with Contractors and upstream with customers
- Establish programme governance and ensure consistent execution across all workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Leadership
- Lead all programming works for the campus
- Manage all upstream customer programmes ensuring accuracy and alignment with site works and contractor programmes
- Ensure consistency in project delivery methodologies, reporting and governance.
- Evaluate all contractor monthly status programmes and tender programmes to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Extrapolate all key deliverables from various customer, contractor and utility programmes and consolidate into campus programme to ensure alignment for all customer deliverables, Air Trunk supplied items and contractor deliverables
- Develop programme execution strategies aligned with AirTrunk objectives.
Project Support
- Provide planning advice to the SYD3 Project Management team including critical path analysis, scenario analysis and schedule risk analysis
- Support project managers and commercial team with Notice of Delays and Extension of Time claims both upstream and downstream
- Provide programme data for all campus reporting
- Maintain a campus programme risk and opportunity register tracking all campus programme risks and associated mitigations strategies
- Integrate various programmes across the campus into one single consolidated campus programme for Syd3
- Provide support to the Air Trunk commissioning team to develop commissioning programmes for each customer
- Identify emerging issues and coordinate programme-wide mitigation strategies.
Programme Controls
- Establish robust programme governance and reporting frameworks.
- Review integrated master schedules and identify programme constraints.
- Ensure programme risks are actively managed and mitigated.
- Monitor contractor performance and implement recovery plans where required.
- Drive continuous improvement across project controls, reporting and delivery processes.
Requirements
Essential
- 10+ years' experience delivering major infrastructure, mission-critical or data centre projects.
- Extensive experience managing complex programmes comprising multiple concurrent projects.
- Excellent knowledge and skillset working with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Strong understanding of construction methodology and development of campus programmes from first principals.
- Experience working for a developer, General Contractor or hyperscale data centre organisation.
- Sound understanding of construction contracts, specifically delay entitlements and procedures.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to present programmes to internal teams and clients.
- Strong understanding of programme controls and governance.
Preferred
- Experience delivering hyperscale data centre campuses.
- Experience leading programmes exceeding AU$1 billion.
- Experience managing Owner Supplied Equipment (OSE).
- Knowledge of commissioning and operational readiness.
- Experience across APAC developments.
- Chartered Engineer, PMP or equivalent project management qualification.
The AirTrunk Culture
Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.
The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.
Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.
Now’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.
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AirTrunk North Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
88 Walker Street, Level 47, North Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2060
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