Senior Site Manager - Data Center
Role Overview
The Senior Site Manager manages construction at one or more data center sites and reports to the Head of Regional Site Teams, with a functional reporting line to the Operations Manager.
The role is accountable for site organization, compliant execution, project records, and feedback at site closure.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Senior Site Manager manages construction at one or more data center sites and reports to the Head of Regional Site Teams, with a functional reporting line to the Operations Manager.
The role is accountable for site organization, compliant execution, project records, and feedback at site closure.
Project and site delivery
- Prepare and monitor schedules, track progress, and take corrective action to meet project commitments.
- Validate project objectives, cost, timelines, and resources; manage site work to budget, identify savings, and report monthly variances.
- Prepare projects for mobilization, participate in design reviews and contract kick-offs, plan mobilization, and coordinate internal budgets.
- Define installation and assembly methods, communicate execution plans, and establish site organization, facilities, and office setup.
- Manage execution against technical specifications, contract requirements, quality and HSE plans, company procedures, and local regulations.
- Coordinate site activities and supervisors; oversee receipt, inspection, and storage of equipment and support testing and commissioning.
Quality, reporting, and closeout
- Maintain a site quality plan and monitor quality performance, customer-supplied materials, and non-conformances.
- Ensure testing and commissioning equipment is maintained, calibrated, inspected, transported, and stored appropriately.
- Ensure site personnel and subcontractors update construction drawings; verify red-marked drawings and support final as-built documentation.
- Prepare progress, budget variance, meeting, transport damage, equipment arrival, stock, operating incident, equipment incident, and non-conformance reports.
- Coordinate closeout and lessons learned; consolidate assembly records, test reports, commissioning records, and site drawings for submission to the Project Manager and customer.
Health, safety, and environment
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, Schneider Electric safety requirements, and customer HSE requirements.
- Develop, implement, maintain, and update site safety plans and risk assessments; conduct inspections and lead safety meetings.
- Ensure field service representatives and subcontractors comply with HSE requirements; investigate incidents and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Monitor, document, and report HSE KPIs; the Site Manager has overall responsibility for EHS aspects at assigned sites.
Experience and education
- At least 10 years of professional experience as a Site Supervisor or Commissioning Supervisor.
- Baccalaureate plus 2 years of study in Electrical Engineering.
- Team management capability.
Technical and interpersonal qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of medium- and low-voltage equipment, power stations and principles, current technologies, and commissioning test principles.
- Good software literacy with MS Office, MS Project, Acrobat, AutoCAD, Omicron testing device software, and protection relay setting software.
- Experience or familiarity with Schneider Electric MV equipment, protection relays, UPS, or LV distribution panels is advantageous.
- The posting calls for flexibility, reliability, technical attention to detail, customer focus, teamwork, and clear technical communication.
- Verify that personnel assigned to sites have the skills, experience, certifications, and authorization levels required for their duties.
Company standards
Follow Schneider Electric's charter of values and instructions and ensure site personnel comply with them.
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